Sylvia Wilson's mother came west in a covered wagon during the mid-19th Century migration.

Sylvia was born June 3, 1900 in Coles Valley, Oregon near present day Roseburg.

Sylvia became a Christian at an early age. In 1928, she became a member of Antioch Baptist Church, Portland, Oregon, which is now Lincoln Street Baptist Church.

During a trip to Marfa, Texas in 1944, Sylvia attended a Southern Baptist church and was impressed with the emphasis on missions. She was particularly interested in the church's program for women called Woman's Missionary Union (WMU).

When she returned to Oregon, Sylvia helped develop a Southern Baptist work in her native state. The Baptist General Convention of Oregon (now Northwest Baptist Convention) was organized in 1948. A few months later Sylvia Wilson was elected president of the new convention's Woman's Missionary Union. A zeal for missions and missions education in church became Sylvia's burning passion for the remaining years of her life.

For 16 years Sylvia Wilson was the driving force behind Northwest Baptist Convention's Woman's Missionary Union. She traveled up and down the Northwest encouraging, inspiring, and training churches in the methods of missionary education and involvement.

Sylvia Wilson's missions ventures deepened her faith. Life for her was an adventure in following Christ.

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