Methodist women’s mission societies in Germany and Switzerland

This chapter traces the development and influence of women’s missionary societies in German and Swiss Methodism. It demonstrates how crucial the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church was in these countries and how European Methodists used its structure and ethos to develop their own mission-sending agencies. A description of German and Swiss missionaries of the Methodist and Evangelical Association traditions demonstrates how these women crossed both international and denominational boundaries in their effort to foster an understanding of mission as the Christian response to needs.