CWBA
CWBA Following this introduction is a good article about CWBA, an organization for which I worked part-time in 2000-2001 while a student and Dorm Mom at St. Louis Christian College, now closed. I was secretary to the President of CWBA. She too was only there part-time because of her age and health. While there, I was asked to write their history from records kept. Before you read the other article, here is my understanding of its history. The first time I heard the name Christian Woman's Benevolent Association, my reaction was that it sounded like a sewing circle. As it turned out, it did begin as a sewing circle. Ladies from churches, particularly the Christian Church, made baby clothes for mothers with babies with no support. CWBA hadn't been formed until later years. The ladies saw the need for housing for the mothers and their babies, so they obtained a house in 1899, probably donated, in which to house the mothers and their babies. (See photo below.) But then a plague