October 5, 2010

Izard County native Sarah Esther Case was the first Arkansas woman to be called as a foreign missionary by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. She spent much of her almost forty years of missionary work in Mexico. In 1922, she became the secretary of the General Board of Missions, the first woman to hold a full-time connectional appointment in the church hierarchy.

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