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Home Missions Council (U.S.)
An early 20th-century ecumenical body, this organization brought Protestant mission boards together to coordinate work across the United States and its territories. Its publications reflect concerns that ranged from church cooperation to immigration, race, education, and social reform.
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Ports of Entry: Missionary Herald
by Home Missions Council (U.S.), Council of Women for Home Missions
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Organized on March 6, 1908, the Home Missions Council was created to encourage fellowship, conference, and cooperation among Christian groups doing missionary work in the United States and its dependencies. It was part of a broader Protestant effort to coordinate home mission work during a period of rapid social change.
Its publishing record shows a wide range of interests, including community relations, migration, education, and national reconstruction. Titles associated with the Council suggest that it worked not only as a religious body, but also as a clearinghouse for discussion about public life and social questions in early 20th-century America.
Today, the Home Missions Council is remembered mainly through archival collections and library records, which preserve its reports, directories, and pamphlets. Those materials offer a useful window into the ecumenical and reform-minded spirit that shaped many Protestant organizations of the era.