Little known fact about Moody

Mbi_logoI was chatting with a friend online last night. In the course of chatting about women, ministry, and my alma mater, we did a little research and quickly found somet hing interesting.

It turns out that Moody wasn’t started (effectually) by DL Moody but by Emma Dryer. Emmadryer That’s right boys and girls, the "name you can trust" was started by and for equipping women for ministry.

In early 1873, a few months before He was to return to England on an evangelistic campaign, Moody convinced Emma Dryer to open a school to train women who wanted to enter home or foreign missions or evangelistic work. This school would give needed training in Bible, theology, and practically ministry to fulfill Moody’s primary goal of getting trained women evangelists and personal workers into the homes of unchurched residents of Chicago. While the school began with training women, Moody had a much larger vision and intended it to eventually include men as well.


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    Amy

    Emma’s hot. That’s all I gotta say.

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