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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maud Sisley Boyd\Nwas the first woman missionary
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.40,0:00:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sent by the Seventh-day Adventist\NChurch’s Foreign Mission Board.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.20,0:00:10.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maud Sisley was born in 1851,\Nin Kent, England.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.04,0:00:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After her father died,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.37,0:00:14.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her family went to the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.13,0:00:16.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they learned about\Nthe Adventist message.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.96,0:00:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A visit by James and Ellen White\Nconvinced them
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.67,0:00:23.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to relocate to church headquarters\Nat Battle Creek, Michigan.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.74,0:00:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maud was an Adventist member\Nfor 10 years
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.77,0:00:29.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when she was called to serve\Nas a missionary.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.48,0:00:33.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1877, she left for Europe
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.25,0:00:35.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where she eventually served\Nin Switzerland and England.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.59,0:00:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After several years in Europe,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.36,0:00:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maud returned to the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.26,0:00:41.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in time to attend
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.26,0:00:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the second annual session\Nof the General Sabbath School Association
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.72,0:00:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,held in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.20,0:00:51.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here she met another participant,\Nthe widower Charles L. Boyd.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.75,0:00:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The couple wed in 1879\Nand had two daughters.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.94,0:00:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Boyds went as part of the first group\Nof Adventist missionaries
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.84,0:01:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Cape Town, South Africa.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.87,0:01:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tragically, their youngest daughter,\NEthel,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.58,0:01:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,died at age three and a half in Africa.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.49,0:01:07.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The family remained in Africa\Nfor about four years
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.83,0:01:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before returning to the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.21,0:01:12.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They reached Battle Creek\Nin time to attend
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.16,0:01:14.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the 1891 General Conference Session.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.14,0:01:17.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At this General Conference Session,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.71,0:01:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charles was asked to become president\Nof the Tennessee River Conference,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.33,0:01:22.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.63,0:01:25.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Boyds were early workers\Nin the American South,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.22,0:01:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,striving to break down racial barriers
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.04,0:01:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in response to Ellen White’s call\Nto do so.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.74,0:01:33.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They created a church that allowed\Nboth black and white members
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.89,0:01:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to worship together.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.60,0:01:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1898 she and Charles were in Asheville,\NNorth Carolina, when Charles died.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.71,0:01:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After his death, Ellen White invited\NMaud and her family to Australia
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.53,0:01:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to assist with the newly formed\NAvondale School.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.89,0:01:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maud was “highly respected as a teacher.”
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.58,0:01:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She spent nine years there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.51,0:01:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her daughter, Ella,\Nwent as a missionary to Tonga.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.24,0:01:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When her sister fell ill,\NMaud returned to Massachusetts
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.28,0:02:02.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be closer to her\Nwhile continuing to conduct Bible work.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.49,0:02:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the last 17 years of her life,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.49,0:02:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she served as a Bible teacher\Nat the Loma Linda and Glendale Sanitariums
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.48,0:02:10.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in California.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.51,0:02:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She spent one school year teaching\Nat Oakwood Junior College in Alabama.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.66,0:02:18.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After her sister died,\Nshe returned to Australia
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.15,0:02:19.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to live with her daughter, Ella.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.27,0:02:22.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here she died in 1937
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.51,0:02:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was buried next to her mother
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.10,0:02:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Avondale Adventist Cemetery\Nin Cooranbong, New South Wales.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.47,0:02:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maud Sisley Boyd spent her life\Nin service to others,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.50,0:02:33.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her legacy lives on to this day.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.48,0:02:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For more stories about\Npioneer missionaries,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.91,0:02:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,visit: encyclopedia.adventist.org.