Mildred Law

{{Short description|Canadian missionary (1924–2014)}}

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| name = Mildred Hazel Law, CBM

| honorific_suffix = Ammagaru

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| birth_date ={{Birth year|1924}}[http://www.sussexfh.com/Obituaries/93047/ Sussexfh - Mildred Hazel Law (1924-2014)]

| birth_place = Glenvale, New Brunswick, Canada

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|11|18|1924||}}

| death_place = Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada

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| nationality = Canadian

| other_names = Mildred Ammagaru

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| occupation = Missionary, Canadian Baptist Ministries

| years_active = 1953-1989 (36 years)

| known_for = Social work through Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women in Tuni

| religion = Christianity

| parents = Laura Mae (nee Patterson) and William Ira Law

| church = Canadian Baptist Ministries

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| offices_held = Principal, CBM-Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women, Kakinada, {{small|(1987-1989)}}

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Mildred Hazel Law (1924 – November 18, 2014) 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.

After early schooling at the Hampton Consolidated School, Mildred discerned her avocation and moved to the Toronto Bible School.[https://archive.org/stream/recordermar1956621toro/recordermar1956621toro_djvu.txt Recorder (Mar. 1956), Toronto Bible College , Vol. 62, No. 1] She later studied at the Acadia University from where she graduated in 1953 and then came to IndiaDirectory of Churches, Alphabetic by City, Church, Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, 1992, p.D-26. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SXHkAAAAMAAJ&q=law] as a Missionary of the Canadian Baptist Ministries.

Mildred served in diverse ministries in India. She was in charge of Sunday School1966 Baptist Yearbook, Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, 1966, p.79.[https://books.google.com/books?id=2WzkAAAAMAAJ&q=mildred] work of the Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars and last served as Principal of the Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women in Tuni succeeding Jessie Rosser in 1987 until 1989, the year in which she returned to her homeland in New Brunswick. The work and the name of Mildred has remained[http://fivekennys.blogspot.in/2012/11/orissa-india.html Fivekennys, November 1, 2012] in the areas where she served.

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{{Succession box| before=Jessie Rosser
1974-1987| title=Principal,
Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women,
Tuni, Andhra Pradesh, India|after=S. E. Krupa Rao,
1989-1993| years=1987-1989

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  • {{cite book

| author=Kenneth and Shirley Knight

| title=The Seed Holds the Tree: A Story of India and the Kingdom of God

| year=2009

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| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=W5MtAgAAQBAJ&q=jessie+rosser+canadian+baptist+india&pg=PR2

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| isbn=978-0-9864766-0-0

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  • {{cite journal

| author=Lois Mitchell

| title="Red and Yellow, Black and White, They are Precious in His Sight…" in Tidings

| year=2007

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| url =http://baptist-atlantic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2007-feb_confessions_of_a_racist.pdf.

| publisher=Atlantic Baptist Women

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Category:2014 deaths

Category:1924 births

Category:Canadian Indologists

Category:People from Westmorland County, New Brunswick

Category:Canadian Baptist Ministries missionaries in India

Category:Acadia University alumni

Category:Canadian Baptist Ministries

Category:20th-century Baptists

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