This week in Texas Methodist HIastory February 13, Congo Missionary, C. T. Schaedel, Speaks in Taylor, February 14, 1922 OIne of the most interesting mission projects involving Texas Methodists was the S S Texas, an evangelistic riverboat that plied the waters of the upper Congo River in the Belgian Congo of the 1920s. The S S Texas was a project of the Texas Epworth League. The League was the young person’s organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Episcopal Church South. Texas Leaguers raised money for the craft that operated in the Wembo Nyama Disrict of the Congo. The capitain of the S S Texas was C. T. Schaedel. Mrs Schaedel, nee Etta Lee Woolsey, taught. In 1922 the Schaedel family was back home in Texas (Bay City) presumably so that their son, C. T. Schaedel, Junior, could be born in Texas rather than the Congo. When foreign missionaries returned home, they often spoke to church groups. On Valentine’s Day 1922, Schaedel spoke to the MECS church at Taylor. The Schaedels moved back to Bay City in 1929. Mrs. Schaedel became one of theleading figures in Mission work. She served a President of the Texas Conference WSCS (Woman’s Society of Christian Serivice) from 1940 to 1946 and was elected a delegate to the 1944 General Confernce.