The Industrial Christian Fellowship (ICF) is a British Christian organization which aims to promote Christian faith and values in the workplace.
History
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.
Life
Garnett was born in Otley in 1839. Her father conducted a service a ...
, missionary to
navvies
Navvy, a clipping of navigator ( UK) or navigational engineer ( US), is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects and occasionally (in North America) to refer to mechanical shovels and ea ...
, co-founded the
Navvy Mission Society
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.
Life
Garnett was born in Otley in 1839. Her father conducted a service a ...
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 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 the Industrial Christian Fellowship. The new organization set its sights on bettering the world through "all forms of work".
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External links
Official site
1919 establishments in the United Kingdom
Anglican organizations
Christian organisations based in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1919
Christianity and society in the United Kingdom