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The Methodist Episcopal Church first entered Russia during the late 19th century. By 1874, a few Finnish men, who were members of the Swedish Annual Conference, felt that the church needed to have a presence in both Finland and Russia. It took ten years for Finland to get their first appointed pastor. Russian Methodism had to wait another five years before any formal activity could be realized. Bishop Charles H. Fowler with Helsinki minister, B. A Carlson, rented a house on Vasili Ostroff in St. Petersburg to start the new mission. By November of that same year, the first Methodist congregation was organized with seven members. All of the workers at that time came from Finland, including Sister Anna Eklund, who aided George A. Simons as the officially appointed missionary to the St. Petersburg work. By 1911, there were nineteen appointments to be filled in western Russia. Two additional congregations were set up in Siberia as well.

During the First World War and Russian Revolution, Methodist Episcopal charges had only six pastors. Simons left the field in October 1918 to which Sister Eklund stepped in and filled the resultant leadership vacuum. Later bishops John Nuelsen and Raymond Wade visited the work on a haphazard basis until 1939. Once the Second World War really began taking its toll on the Soviet population, the Methodist Church faded into obscurity. A small Methodist remnant survived and was later reinvigorated in 1989 with the General Board of Global Ministries Russian Initiative.

Southern Methodism Mission to Russia was divided between Harbin, Manchuria, Nikolsk, Siberia, in the east along with Klarysew, Poland, in the west and whose work primarily focused on the White Russians. The Harbin work was an outgrowth of the established mission work in Korea. When native Korean Southern Methodists migrated north to flee from Japanese occupation, they tended to settle in the Harbin area where many Russians lived as well. The mission was officially established in 1921 under the leadership of Bishop Walter Lambuth. At that time he sent W.G. Cram, J. S. Ryang and Chung Chai Duk to Manchuria as full time missionaries. Under their leadership the work flourished to a point that in 1924 more than one thousand persons were members of the church with an additional five thousand in regular attendance.

By 1927, Soviet officials barred the presiding bishop from visiting the area to give episcopal oversight. All of the workers were now from Korea who focused their efforts on Korean speaking congregations. The work in Siberia took off after Bishop Boaz sent George Erwin to Vladivostok in 1921. Erwin later transferred to Harbin because of the same Soviet pressure that faced the Manchurian mission. Here he ministered among the ethnic Russians with great success until 1927 when it was dismantled. Korean congregations continued to struggle for another ten years.

Polish work began as an extension of the 1918-1919 Centenary Commission's effort to give relief to war ravaged eastern Poland through preaching and social missionand money for Methodist missions. The mission was technically started on June 5, 1919 when the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, voted it an official mission work. Relief became the primary objective of the mission due to deprivation from World War 1. Unlike its filial work in the east, the Polish work survived and continues to this day.

Josiah Lamberson Parrish (1806-1895) was an early American missionary to the Indians, U.S. Indian agent and leader in Christian education in the Pacific northwest. He was born in Onondaga County, New York, on January 14, 1806. He learned the blacksmith trade from his father, and worked on the Erie Canal.

Parrish was converted in 1816 and renewed (?) in 1824 before being licensed to preach in 1830. Parrish heard the call to the Indian mission in Oregon in 1839. Jason Lee, the superintendent of the Indian mission, had already filled his quota of ministers, so Parrish entered the Indian mission as a blacksmith.

Parrish arrived in Oregon in 1840, having come by ship around Cape Horn. He served for two years as a blacksmith at the main mission station in the Willamette Valley, before he was given charge of his own station among the coast Indians in 1842.

From 1843 to 1846, Parrish was a missionary to the Clatsop Indians. After the close of the Indian Mission in 1846, he worked as a preacher among the white settlers, first as a lay preacher and later as a conference member in full connection. From 1847 to 1848 Parrish served the Yamhill circuit. In 1844 he became a trustee of Willamette University. Between 1849 and 1854, at a time when the government was trying to move the Indians of the Pacific northwest onto reservations, Parrish was a government Indian agent.

Parrish was interested in public affairs, and helped establish the provisional government of Oregon, which was the only government in Oregon until the United States Government established the Oregon territorial government in 1846.

Parrish was admitted to the Oregon Conference in 1853 and ordained elder by Bishop Ames. Parrish was one of the first men in the Oregon Conference to be ordained elder. In 1854, Parrish returned to missionary work on the Grande Ronde Indian reservation, but retired for health reasons in 1856.

In 1857, Parrish returned to active service and was active until 1879.

Though he spent a lot of time with the Native American people on the reservations, Parrish maintained a home on his Donation Land Claim, land used for homesteading in Oregon, in what is now the city of Salem.

After his retirement, Parrish served for sixteen years as a prison chaplain at the state prison. He was an original member of the board of directors of the Oregon Institute, which was chartered as Willamette University in 1853, and remained a member of the board for the rest of his life. In fact Parrish was elected president of the board of trustees of Willamette University in 1869.

Parrish was married three times.

He married Elizabeth Winn in 1833, and had four children with her, all boys - Lamberson, Norman, Samuel, and Charles. Elizabeth Winn Parrish died in 1859.

In 1860, Parrish married Jennie L. Lichtenthaler, by whom he had two children, both girls - Josie and Grace. Jennie died in 1887.

The next year, 1888 Parrish married Mattie A. Pierce, who had one child, LaRonda Pierce, from a previous marriage.