[3] The council represented and promoted Protestant church women's home mission organizations interdenominationally.
[4] Any national women's home mission board or society agreeing to cooperate in the purposes and work of the council could become a constituent member paying a nominal annual membership fee.
[5] At Chautauqua, New York, the Council annually conducted a Home Missions Institute along the usual lines of study hours, conferences and denominational rallies.
A few years sufficed to demonstrate the desirability of a permanent and more formal organization, so in 1908, the Council of Women for Home Missions was established.
A theme for yeara was chosen and books for various ages or for various types of groups were jointly published, as well as accompanying supplemental material.
The Council prepared the program for one; the Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions of North America for the other.
Some had a wide range of activities and annually conducted institutes for missionary instruction having paid registrations of several hundreds.
Others were dormant a good prat of each year, active only in connection with the observance of the Day of Prayere for Missions.
Therefore, there were more than a dozen active joint committees covering types of work and groups of people in the U.S. and its possessions or dependencies.
The membership of these committees was made up from the boards carrying on or interested in missionary work for the specific groups.
Interdenominational conferences were planned, programs of activity unitedly formulated, and opportunity for interchange of information and inspiration provided.
Through the instrumentality of one committee, various men's and women's boards furnished a religious work director to several government Indian schools.
A specially designated Secretary of Recruiting served the two Councils, arranging for the presentation of home missions at the summer conferences, striving to help coordinate the recruiting work of the various denominations and agencies, and to correlate and promoted the organization of home service groups.