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founding the first documented Sunday school in the United States caring for neglected children Catherine [ 1 ] Ferguson (c. 1779 – July 11, 1854) was an African-American philanthropist and educator who founded the first Sunday school in New York City .
Henrietta Cornelia Mears (October 23, 1890 – March 19, 1963) was a Christian educator, evangelist, and author who had a significant impact on evangelical Christianity in the 20th century and one of the founders of the National Sunday School Association [1] Best known as the innovative and dynamic Director of Christian Education at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, California and in ...
Edward Kimball (July 29, 1823 – June 5, 1901) was an American Sunday School teacher known for converting 19th-century evangelist Dwight L. Moody to Christianity. Kimball also assisted churches across the United States in eliminating significant financial debts. [1] [2] He had assisted 21 churches in "liberating" debt by the age of 45.
A teacher at Central Regional High School in Berkeley, whose house in Ocean Gate was lost in Sandy, is bringing relief to victims of Hurricane Helene. ... On Sunday, he helped another 1,350 people ...
North Carolina resident Mistie Cogbill gave a tear-jerking plea for help during 'America's Newsroom,' urging the nation not to forget about the decimated communities following Hurricane Helene.
Sunday school, Manzanar War Relocation Center, 1943.Photographed by Ansel Adams. Baptist Sunday school group in Amherstburg, Ontario, [ca. 1910] A Sunday school, sometimes known as a Sabbath school, is an educational institution, usually Christian in character and intended for children or neophytes.
Utley founded International Sunday School Lessons Inc. which would later become Bible Lessons International and has taught for this non-profit from 1976 until the present. In 1980 he was brought on as a teacher for the Seminary Extension of Southern Baptist Convention of Lubbock Baptist Association and near-simultaneously taught for Wayland ...
The first formal Sunday School in the LDS Church was held on December 9, 1849, in Salt Lake City under the direction of Richard Ballantyne, [2] a former Sunday school teacher in the Relief Presbyterian Church in Scotland. Lacking a suitable building to hold the meeting in, Ballantyne invited his students into his own home; approximately thirty ...