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What is now the WTAMU Wesley Foundation grew out of a Sunday school class for college students formed by R. B. Cousins, the first president of WT and an active member of the Methodist church.

In the Spring of 1923 a student named Elmer Marshall and Miss M. Moss Richardson, a professor in the English department who also taught in Cousins' Sunday school class, attented the first meeting of the State Methodist Student Federation in Georgetown, Texas. After much prayer and thinking at that conference, a local federation called the West Texas Methodist Student Federation was formed. With the help of the local Methodist minister in Canyon at the time, the orgainzation began to grow and develop.

Up until the 1940's, the federation was entirely volunteer, student led. However in 1949 it was decided that a campus center was needed on campus, and with it a full time, paid director. After a span of about 20 years, the need for a new building arose which accounts for the Wesley's current location established on January 27, 1971.

Today, the Wesley Foundation has not only a full-time director, but also an associate to help serve in it's mission to the WTAMU community. The Wesley looks forward to not only maintaining the great ministry that has taken place in the past, but carrying the vision forward into the future, sending Christian leaders not only back to their communities, but to the nations.



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		Wesley History

		What is now the WTAMU Wesley Foundation grew out of a Sunday school class for college students formed by R. B. Cousins, the first president of WT and an active member of the Methodist church. In the Spring of 1923 a student named Elmer Marshall and Miss M. Moss Richardson, a professor in the English department who also taught in Cousins' Sunday school class, attented the first meeting of the State Methodist Student Federation in Georgetown, Texas. After much prayer and thinking at that conference, a local federation called the West Texas Methodist Student Federation was formed. With the help of the local Methodist minister in Canyon at the time, the orgainzation began to grow and develop. Up until the 1940's, the federation was entirely volunteer, student led. However in 1949 it was decided that a campus center was needed on campus, and with it a full time, paid director. After a span of about 20 years, the need for a new building arose which accounts for the Wesley's current location established on January 27, 1971. Today, the Wesley Foundation has not only a full-time director, but also an associate to help serve in it's mission to the WTAMU community. The Wesley looks forward to not only maintaining the great ministry that has taken place in the past, but carrying the vision forward into the future, sending Christian leaders not only back to their communities, but to the nations.