ABSTRACT
The Mission House initial capitals were the place from which the Wesleyan enterprise was managed. The new Mission House was only half-finished when war broke out in 1939, but the lower floors were occupied, some by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The number of Secretaries quickly became three, one being resident at the Mission House; by 1932 the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (WMMS) had five and one from each of the other uniting Churches joined the team. Like Webb, Morris joined the BBC on leaving the Mission House. The smaller branches of Methodism had virtually no centralized headquarters, apart from a Book Room/Publishing House in London; missionary Secretaries worked from manses dispersed around the country. Earlier, while a banker in Plymouth, he had been influential in transforming the Juvenile Missionary Association (JMA) into a dynamic children's movement. The spiritual and theological preparation of new missionaries became the task of the college tutors.
