7-551: The Industrial Christian Fellowship (ICF) is a British Christian organization which aims to promote Christian faith and values in the workplace. Elizabeth Garnett , missionary to navvies , co-founded the Navvy Mission Society in 1877, along with the Rev. Lewis Moule Evans. This missionary effort was funded by Garnett's "navvy novels", beginning with Little Rainbow , published in 1877. The mission grew, supplying missionaries to
14-573: A Sunday School at the site and within a year she resolved to move to the camp. She was joined in her work by the Reverend Lewis Moule Evans. The Sunday School teachers and Evans founded a mission to the navvies by writing hundreds of letters to obtain support. The crowdsourcing created what was formally called the Christian Excavators' Union although Rev. Lewis Moule Evans took much of the credit for creating what became known as
21-460: A service as Vicar of Otley for the men killed building the Bramhope Tunnel . The impressive monument is now listed and commemorated the work of the navvies who built the tunnel. Garnett married a clergyman but within a year she was a widow. In about 1872 Garnett was moved by a camp of navvies who were encamped near her home who were involved in building Lindley Wood Reservoir . She opened
28-591: The "Navvies' Mission". The mission was founded in 1877 and Garnett was the force within it. That year she published Little Rainbow which was the first of the "navvy novels" which provided funds to the mission. Garnett is regarded as a co-founder even though she was not recognised as a leader of the mission. The mission grew and besides supplying missionaries the mission supplied libraries to enable education at other remote camps for navvies as well as soup kitchens and saving banks. Evans had died in 1878 and Garrett became involved in further missions. The Church of England
35-534: The Industrial Christian Fellowship. The new organization set its sights on bettering the world through "all forms of work".Prebendery PTR Kirk Elizabeth Garnett Elizabeth Garnett (23 September 1839 – 22 March 1921) was a British missionary to navvies and an author. She was a founder and leading force of the Navvy Mission Society . Garnett was born in Otley in 1839. Her father conducted
42-606: The navvies, libraries for the navvies' camps, soup kitchens, and savings banks. The Rev. Henry Scott Holland , at the inspiration of the Most Rev. Edward White Benson , gathered a group together, to found the Christian Social Union in 1889. This organization was dedicated to investigating the causes of, and alleviating the problems of, poverty and other forms of social injustice. The two organizations, having common aims of social welfare and justice, merged in 1919, to form
49-663: Was supportive and when the Embsay Reservoir was built near Skipton the mission was based in a mill that provided a living space for 150 workers. The transformation in working conditions led to the mill being called a "mansion". The Navvy Mission Society merged with the Christian Social Union in 1919 to form the Industrial Christian Fellowship , which continued to develop issues of social justice and business ethics. Garnett died in Croydon in 1921. Five years later
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