If there is any way at all possible I would like for the stipend of Miss Ethel Bernard to be increased. She is the founder of the McCumber Mission, which has been forced to meet in her home for the past two years. She does two people’s work in the Brooklyn Mission both in teaching and community work. She is like an angel in the lives of so many of those people who fear neither God nor man. Last year she purchased a Ford car with which we do much of the work of the Mission. She has no father nor brother to help in the support of the home. She is not an incompetent, working for the Church because she can get none other, but has the real missionary spirit. She was trained at St. Augustine’s School in Raleigh.

(Source: Gustave H. Caution, Parochial Report for Brooklyn Mission, Wilmington, 1928 Journal of the Diocese of East Carolina, pp. 167-68)