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One hundred percent of your gifts to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering
for North American Missions will help start 2,200 churches in the United
States and Canada, support more than 5,000 missionaries, sends hundreds
of student missionaries throughout North America, fund evangelistic
media campaigns in strategic cities, and much more.
Annie Walker Armstrong was born on July 11, 1850, in Baltimore,
Maryland, to a prominent Baptist family. She learned the importance of
giving and praying for missions while she accompanied her mother to the
missionary meetings of Woman's Mission to Woman. She worked especially
in home missions, including Indians, immigrants, African-Americans, and
children. In 1882, Annie helped to organize the Woman's Baptist Home
Mission Society of Maryland, and she was the society's first president.
As missions work developed among women's groups in other states, women
from 12 states met in 1888 in Richmond, Virginia to form the Executive
Committee of Woman's Mission Societies. This was an auxiliary to the
Southern Baptist Convention, and Annie Armstrong was elected the
corresponding secretary.
She served in this position until 1906 (the organization had been
renamed Woman's Missionary Union by that time). She refused to accept a
salary for the work she did through WMU to further the gospel. In 1934
the offering that was collected annually for the Home Mission Board was
renamed the "Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for Home Missions".
Annie Armstrong died on December 12, 1938.
For more information on North American Missions, go to
North American Mission
Board Website.
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