Methodist Episcopal Church. Missionary Society Board of Managers

The Missionary Society was organized on April 5, 1819 in New York, and became an official agency, through General Conference action, in 1820. The purpose of the organization was to enable the several Annual Conferences to more effectively spread the Gospel and to aid them in their benevolent and charitable work in both domestic and foreign missions. The society administered its work through a Board of Managers and its Corresponding Secretaries, subject to the General Missionary Committee, which met annually to make appropriations and to establish policy. The board had its headquarters in New York City.