ABSTRACT
This essay examines the life and ministry of Anna Eklund and the pioneering labors in which she engaged to help plant Methodism in Russia. Born in Sweden of Finnish parents, and trained at deaconess centers in Germany, she was consecrated in 1886 at the annual meeting of the Finland and Russia Mission Conference and subsequently deployed to Russia. Her correspondence provides evidence of her engagement with Russian officials to help secure a foundation for Methodist work and demonstrates how she functioned as a precursor of women clergy in European Methodism.
