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At this same time missionaries had been sent south to Herefordshire, England where Wilford Woodruff had such amazing success among the United Brethren congregations. Missionaries were sent further south and set up headquarters in Garway, Herefordshire (near the border to Monmouthshire). David Wilding was called to Garway in July 1840 and by September 1840 there was a branch there of 26 members in Garway. In the fall of 1840 John Needham, who had previously worked as a missionary in Staffordshire Potteries and the towns near Birmingham, was sent to to Garway to begin work further west among the Welsh people of western Hereford and Monmouthshire. By March 1841, when the Garway conference was organized, there were 4 branches in Western Herefordshire, including the Welsh town of Longton. John Needham was appointed the president of the Garway Conference until 1843 and appointed 6-7 elders to work among the branches that were organized in the Welsh hills of Monmouthshire and Herefordshire including branches in Abergavenny, Llanthony Abbey, Longton, Hewshovel, Llanfoist, Llanellen, and Lancathy. William Henshaw, who spoke the Welsh language, continued missionary work further into southeast Wales and a branch was organized 25 Mar 1843 at Pen-y-darren, near Merthyr Tydvil. At the general conference of the British Mission, held in Liverpool 7 Apr 1844, the Merthyr Tydvil Conference was organized under William Henshaw and included three branches in Monmouthshire (Beufort, Rhymney, and Tredegar), and two branches in Glamorganshire (Merthyr Tydvil and Aberdare). On 3 Sep 1844 Reuben Hedlock reported that the church was progressing rapidly in South Wales and that he had recently published a small pamphlet in the Welsh language on the first principals of the gospel.
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