Brief History of the National Women's Auxiliary

Our First Chairlady
Evangelist Oneita B. Clark
Warren, Ohio

Our First Secretary
Evangelist Gladys Barnes
Anderson, Indiana

On August 23, 1934, the General Body already in session at Bethel Temple,
Louisville, KY, Host and Hostess Bishop and Evangelist D.T. Schult, were gathered:
Evangelists, Missionaries, Godly Sisters, many of whom attending because of their
minister husbands, desiring to be a part or contribute to this great ministry, missionary
work; met for the purpose of organizing a National Missionary Auxiliary.
  

We were blessed to have in attendance many great women; the wife of our
Founder Bishop G.T. Haywood, Mrs. Ida Howard Haywood of Indianapolis, Indiana;
Missionary J.R. Ledbetter of Cleveland, Ohio; who spent 21 years in the interior of
Africa.  The late Mrs. Kathleen Washington Grimes, wife of Presiding over the meeting,
until regular officers were duly elected.
 

The First Official Officers were as follows:  

Chairman - Evang. O.B. Clark, Warren, Ohio

Vice-Chairman - Evang. Vestula Young of Columbus, Ohio

Secretary - Evang. Gladys Barnes, Muncie, Indiana

Assistant Secretary - Gladys Wilson, Chicago, Illinois

Treasurer - Sister Ida Haywood of Indianapolis, Indiana.
              

Being a bride of just a few months, my companion a minister and member of the
Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Inc., I was privileged to attend this meeting when
we organized our Missionary Auxiliary of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Inc.