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The West London Methodist Mission has a long track record as a Methodist ministry and as a spiritual home for "good works". Its early days are very much associated with Hugh Price Hughes, a strong supporter of the Temperance Movement
Objectives
Today
The West London Mission has several mission statements attributable to it. A distallation of these is that it works with the socially and economically disadvantaged in West London, concentrating currently on people who are homeless, young, misusing alcohol or drugs and/or in trouble with the law[1]
History
Current headquarters is at the Hinde Street Methodist Church[2] in London W1
Superintendents
- Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902), from 1887 to ...
- Rev Dr Donald Soper[3] (1903-1998), later Lord Soper, from 1936 to 1978[4]
Other iterest
The history of the mission was written by Philip Bagwell[5] (D 2006) in his book Outcast London
External links
- Scroll to Craven Chapel
- Emmeline Pethick Lawrence (see also Emmeline Pethick Lawrence)
- The Rev Dr Sir Alan Walker, Remembered
- West London Mission