Missouri Job’s Daughters
youth organizations
Missouri Job’s Daughters Today’s Leaders, Tomorrow’s Future
Celebrating 100 Years! By Olivia Van Tine, Grand Bethel Honored Queen, Paula Howard, Grand Guardian Jerry Arruda, Associate Grand Guardian In 1920, a woman named Ethel Theresa Wead Mick had an idea of creating an organization for young women where they could vote on their own matters and have a voice. Her family often learned about the Book of Job, and Mick’s personal motto was the 15th verse of the 42nd Chapter: “In all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.” She used this passage as the founding passage for her organization. On October 20th, 1920, and with the sponsorship of Most Worshipful Grand Master of Nebraska, J.B. Fradenburg; the Worthy Grand Matron of Nebraska, Anna J. Davis; and the Worthy Grand Patron of Nebraska, James E. Bednar; the Order of Job’s Daughters was created and Bethel #1 of Omaha, Nebraska was chartered on December 31st, 1921. One hundred years later, we are now officially known
Fall 2020
as Job’s Daughters International and can be found in thirty of the fifty United States, Canada, Australia, Philippines, and Brazil. We have over eight thousand active members across the globe who are working to be “true Daughters of Job.” The Order has helped countless young women with their public speaking skills, leadership abilities, self-confidence, and love of charitable work. This year we are also celebrating thirty-five years of our philanthropic charity, The Hearing Improvement Kids Endowment (HIKE) Fund, Inc. The purpose of the Fund is to provide hearing devices for children with hearing losses between the ages of newborn and twenty years whose parents are unable to meet this special need financially. An estimated 100 children are provided with hearing devices each year and over »
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