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Sophia Blackmore. Sophia Blackmore (18 October 1857 – 3 July 1945) was an Australian Christian missionary. She founded the Fairfield Methodist Schools, and also Methodist Girls' School in Singapore. She was the first unmarried woman missionary sent by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Singapore.
Sophia Blackmore (b. 18 October 1857, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia–d. 3 July 1945, Australia) was the first woman missionary sent by the Methodist Women's Foreign Missionary Society to work in Singapore.1 During her stay in Singapore from 1887 to 1928, she helped to found two Methodist schools for girls: Methodist Girls' School and Fairf...
Mar 11, 2021 · Sophia Blackmore. Founder of Methodist Girls’ School. Sophia Blackmore was born on 18 October 1857 to a devout Christian family in Goulburn, New South Wales. In her late 20s, influenced by a visiting American missionary, Sophia went to India with the intention of serving as a missionary in China.
Dec 26, 2003 · The women of Minneapolis appropriated US$3,000 to open women’s work in Malaysia, but the money really came from Mrs Nind herself, and Sophia Blackmore’s ministry to this part of the world was assured.
Oct 10, 2008 · Sophia Blackmore (b. 18 October 1857, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia–d. 3 July 1945, Australia) was the first woman missionary sent by the Methodist Women's Foreign Missionary Society to work in Singapore.
1857 - 1945. Missionary and pioneer of education for girls in Singapore. Methodist. Singapore. Sophia Blackmore was born on October 18, 1857 in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. She was one of eight children in a devout Christian family that had migrated from London in the 1850s.
Mar 1, 2015 · Miss Blackmore, she said, had never missed her evening prayers with the whole school. Every Friday, every girl had to recite a verse, and Sophia would always help those who struggled, correcting them in the gentlest way when they struggled.
Jan 4, 2018 · Sophia Blackmore. Another missionary society that left a deep impact on Singapore was the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society (WFMS; see text box below) of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America. More familiar is the name Sophia Blackmore, its most well-known missionary in Singapore.
Two-and-a-half years after its founding, Australian missionary Sophia Blackmore founded the Methodist Girls’ School on 15 August 1887. She was the answer to a request made by Reverend William F. Oldham to the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society in America for a female staff in Singapore.5.
Methodist Girls’ School (MGS) was founded by Miss Sophia Blackmore on 15 August 1887. Supported by the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America, Miss Blackmore, an Australian missionary, came to Singapore with a mission – to provide girls with an education.
