[3] Martha Watts was the second unmarried woman to be sent abroad by the Board of Foreign Missions; after arriving in Brazil in 1881, she established four schools.
Lucinda Barbour Helm started the Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society,[4] with a Central Committee reporting to the Southern Methodist Board of Church Extension which was led by men.
In 1906 the General Conference created the Woman's Missionary Council, merging the two women's groups despite frictions between the leaders.
Another important contribution by Bennett's presidency was that Southern Methodist women gained full laity rights in 1919.
Some notable medical missionaries from the American Southern Methodist Episcopal Mission include John Abner Snell and Walter Lambuth.