Guest Blogger: Gretchen S. Curtis, Lakeside Heritage Society Director of Operations
T
he Women’s Home Missionary Society (WHMS)was established in the national Methodist Episcopal Church in 1880.
The first known School of Missions at Lakeside was held August 4-9, 1913 and led by Miss Carrie Barge, the Field Secretary of the Department of Young People’s Work in the Home Missionary Society.
The 1913 Lakeside Program identifies that Miss Barge led class work at 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday based on the WHMS interdenominational textbook titled “The New America.”
Miss Barge continued to participate as a leader and speaker during the School of Home Missions at Lakeside for nine years through 1921.