ALMA HUNT OFFERING FOR VIRGINIA MISSIONS
We will be collecting for the Alma Hunt Offering for Virginia Missions during the month of September. Our goal is $2,000. Alma Hunt, a native Virginian, was known for her commitment to Christ and passionate advocacy for worldwide ministry.

“Together, let us proclaim a Living Faith - a faith that serves, gives, and makes Christ known.”

 

Alma Hunt (October 5, 1909 – June 14, 2008) was executive secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention Woman's Missionary Union from 1948 to 1974.[1]

Hunt was born in Roanoke, Virginia.[2] She was an ordained minister of the Rosalind Hills Baptist Church where she vocally opposed the Southern Baptist Convention's prohibition of women in the role of church pastors or military and prison chaplains.[3]

Hunt graduated in 1941 from State Teacher's College (now Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia; in 1947, she earned a master's degree in administration at Columbia University.[4] William Jewell College, where she served as dean of women in 1945–48, awarded her an honorary doctorate of humanities, and in 1999 the University of Richmond awarded her an honorary doctorate of divinity.[2]

One of Hunt's first initiatives after being chosen to head the WMU was to support the formation of the women's department of the Baptist World Alliance, and also the BWA's interdenominational North American Baptist Women's Union.[3] She served as president of the latter in 1964–67, and vice president of the former in 1970–75.[2]

From 1976 to 1985, Hunt served as consultant on women's mission work for the Baptist Foreign Mission Board which named her an honorary emeritus missionary in 1987.