Jessie Rosser, CBM Ammagaru | |
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Born | Jessie Rosser November 2, 1921 [1] |
Died | May 7, 2013 91) [1] | (aged
Nationality | Canadian |
Education | |
Alma mater | |
Occupation(s) | Missionary, Canadian Baptist Ministries |
Years active | 1948 [2] to 1987 [2] in India (40 years) [3] |
Known for | Her work at the C.B.M. Jubilee Secondary and Training School for Women, Kakinada and the Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women in Tuni |
Parent | J. M. Rosser |
Religion | Christianity |
Church | Canadian Baptist Ministries |
Offices held | Principal, CBM-Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women, Kakinada, (1974-1987) |
Title | Sister |
Jessie Rosser(born 1921;died 2013) was a Missionary of the Canadian Baptist Ministries who served in India for over 40 years [1] [4] and was Principal of the Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women in Tuni, Andhra Pradesh.
Jessie worked as a school teacher at St. Thomas, Ontario for some time and then studied social sciences [5] at the McMaster University from where she graduated in 1947 [5] with a B.A. and decided to serve the cause of people [5] in difficult circumstances overseas. She came to India in 1947 [6] and served as a Missionary in Kakinada, [6] Vuyyuru, [6] and Tuni. [6]
In 1987, [7] the Canadian Baptist Ministries recognised the services of Jessie Rosser as a missionary to India by then General Secretary of the Canadian Baptist Ministries, Robert C. Berry who presented Jessie with a pin acknowledging her 40-year service.
When Jessie Rosser came to India during 1947 [6] /1948, [8] the members of the Centre Street Baptist Church in St. Thomas, Ontario formed a Jessie Rosser Mission Circle in honour of her. In 2009, [9] the circle members comprising 10 ladies visited India to see the places where Jessie Rosser served, especially the Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women in Tuni.
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The Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars (CBCNC) is a Baptist Christian denomination in north coastal Andhra Pradesh. The churches are part of the Telugu Christian community of Southern India. Its language is Telugu. It is affiliated to the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) and the World Council of Churches (WCC).
Baptist Theological Seminary is a Baptist seminary of the Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars (CBCNC) located in Jagannaickpur, Church Square, Kakinada in Kakinada district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The seminary was affiliated to nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) in 1949.
Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women was founded in 1922 by the Canadian Baptist Mission (CBM). The school is in Tuni in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Muriel Spurgeon Carder was a Canadian Baptist who was the first woman ordained as a Baptist minister in Ontario and Quebec; she was also a missionary in India.
William Boyd Stewart was a pastor, writer, and educator in the Baptist denomination of Canada.
Acharya A. B. Masilamani or Abel Boanerges Masilamani (1914–1990) was a Golden Jubilee Baptist pastor and evangelist on whom parallels had been drawn comparing his ecclesiastical ministry with that of Saint Paul. The Mar Thoma Syrian Church, one of the Saint Thomas Christian Churches founded by Thomas the Apostle in the first century which holds the annual Maramon Conventions used to have Masilamani preach at its conventions since the 1970s. During one such Maramon Convention held in 1983 at Maramon, Masilamani was one of the main speaker who spoke on Christology in the presence of the two patriarchs of the Mar Thoma Church, Alexander Mar Thoma and Thomas Mar Athanius.
Chetti Devasahayam was the Registrar of the nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) who was in office from 1960 through 1975. It was during Devasahayam's tenure at the University that ecumenism gave way to merger of seminaries and the formation of special purpose entities throughout India. It was Devasahayam who gave the inaugural address when the Andhra Christian Theological College was formed in 1964 in Rajahmundry.
Talluru Thomas Gabriel(born December 15, 1837; died January 1, 1875) was the founder of the Canadian Baptist Mission in India.
Mildred Hazel Law was a missionary of the Canadian Baptist Ministries. Mildred came to India in 1953 and served in the northern coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, especially at the Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women in Tuni.
Ruth Fletcher was the third Principal of the Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women in Tuni. Ruth was the great granddaughter of A. V. Timpany, one of the pioneer missionaries of the Canadian Baptist Ministries. Ruth's mother, Dorothy Timpany was a Medical Doctor at the CBM Bethel Hospital, Vuyyuru.
Winnifred Eaton was the first principal of the Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women in Tuni, Andhra Pradesh, India. Eaton used to participate in the joint conferences of the overseas missionaries comprising the Americans and the Canadians. She was a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Winnifred May Paskall was a Missionary who came to India in 1946 through the Canadian Baptist Ministries.
S. E. Krupa Rao was a Pastor of the Protestant Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars where he held leadership positions in the Church society whose area of operation extended from Srikakulam District in the northern circars along the Bay of Bengal right through seven districts up to Guntur District.
E. L. Quirk was a Missionary who served in India from 1925 through 1953.
Waldo Penner was a Baptist missionary who served in India from 1946 through 1981 as a team member of the Canadian Baptist Ministries. Penner was born in Secunderabad in India where his parents were missionaries of the American Baptist Mission.
Victor David Hahn was a missionary who served in India during 1955–1968 through the Canadian Baptist Ministries.
Gordon Dewolfe Barss was a Baptist missionary who served in India during 1939-1980 through the Canadian Baptist Ministries.
M. Theophilus was a Baptist Patriarch and Spiritual Formator of the Protestant Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars, a major congregation along the Bay of Bengal in Andhra Pradesh, India that extends from Srikakulam District in the northern tip through Guntur District in the middle. Theophilus taught at the Baptist Theological Seminary, Kakinada during the period 1926-1946 and was also Senator of India's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) during 1942-1946 taking forward not only the theological concerns of the University but also the concerns of Serampore College, which as a dual University affiliated entity, had the arts, science and commerce faculties affiliated to the University of Calcutta. In matters of Church union, Theophilus actively cooperated with the National Council of Churches in India that not only incorporated the Protestant and the Oriental Orthodox Churches but also reached out to the Catholics.
M. S. G. Lalitha Kumari a.k.a. Lalitha Krupa Rao was the eighth Principal of Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women, Tuni. She held the term from 1993 through 2011. Lalitha was a theologically trained woman who also used to pastor a Church. With her ordination in 1992, she became the first Woman priest in the Protestant Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars.