Sarah Lue Bostick (1868–1948)[1] born Sarah Lue Howard near Glasgow, Kentucky, on May 27, 1868,[2] was key in organizing the first African-American Christian Woman's Board of Missions auxiliary in 1892 and subsequent clubs throughout the south at the turn of the 20th century.[citation needed]
In 1892, she was the first African American woman ordained in the Disciples.[3]
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editReferences
edit- ^ Keller, Rosemary (2006). Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Indiana University Press. p. 302. ISBN 0-253-34685-1.
- ^ Hull, Debra (1994). Christian Church Woman. St. Louis, Missouri, USA: Chalice Press. pp. 107. ISBN 0-8272-0463-9.
- ^ "Understanding our Disciples Heritages" (PDF). Claremont, California: Disciples Seminary Foundation. 2017. p. 2. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
Further reading
edit- Burnley, Lawrence A. Q. (2008). The Cost of Unity: African-American Agency and Education in the Christian Church, 1865-1914. Mercer University Press. pp. 15, 236–237. ISBN 978-0-88146-134-3.
- Cummins, D Duane (May 1, 2009). The Disciples: A Struggle for Reformation. Chalice Press. pp. 146, 190. ISBN 978-0-8272-3678-3.
- "Discovering the Disciples" (PDF). Covenant Christian Church.
- Fuller, Bertha M. (1949). Sarah Lou Bostick: Minister and Missionary. Nashville, Tennessee: Disciples of Christ Historical Society, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) - private printing.
- "Meet Your Past - Sarah Lue Bostick" (PDF). African American Disciples Women. Vol. 1, no. 2. Disciples Women of the National Convocation of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). August 2008.
- Newell Williams, D.; Douglas Allen Foster; Paul M. Blowers (March 30, 2013). The Stone-Campbell Movement: A Global History. Chalice Press. pp. 55, 58, 68–69, 71, 72. ISBN 978-0-8272-3527-4.
- "Sarah Lue Bostick". Disciples of Christ Historical Society, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
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