The story of Asenath Brewster: pioneer in urban missions and mentor of Southern Baptist Leaders: by the time Asenath Brewster was thirty-two years old in 1911, she had taken a leading role in sending her denomination's first missionaries abroad and in forming its women's missionary organization.(Biography)

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To honor her efforts, the General Association of General Baptists, a small, Missouri-based denomination, named its annual Christmas mission offering in her honor. Yet, even the General Baptists know only the early part of her story. She is virtually forgotten in Southern Baptist circles, where she spent her later years working as a home missionary in the most desperate neighborhoods of Louisville, Kentucky. There she also influenced a nucleus of young Baptist preachers and seminarians in the early 1940s who later became some of the best-known progressive activists in the Southern ...

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