Concern for women and children
Women had a strong sense of identification with the needs of women and children and searched out ways to provide appropriate support. In spite of strong resistance from an mission boards, in 1861 and the following years, women founded numerous and effective womens boards for foreign and home missions whereby they could work directly with and for women and children.

Women linked world peace with world mission
After the devastation of World War I, women incorporated the conviction that world peace was intrinsically tied to world mission. Therefore, women renewed their efforts for unity.

World day of prayer spread rapidly throughout the USA. Canadian women took up the same date in 1922.

In 1928 this statement came from the World Day of Prayer Committee:

It is with deep gratitude that we recognize the growing power inherent in our World Day of Prayer. The circle of prayer has expanded literally around the world. We have learned the great lesson of praying with, rather than for, our sisters of other races and nations, thus enriching our experience and releasing the power which must be ours if we are to accomplish tasks entrusted to us.

On September 12, 2002

The leaders of 51 Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical Churches petitioned President Bush to reconsider his plans to invade Iraq.

The letter stated, "We oppose on moral grounds the United States taking further military action against Iraq now" General Secretary Bob Edgar of the National Council of Churches, a joint ministry of 36 Protestant and Orthodox denominations, stated, "We do not need to march down the path to Armageddon. Pre-emptive military action now being contemplated by the Administration cannot be morally justified."