 For several years, she was a class leader in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, Newark, New Jersey, in which she did much toward the character development of the youth in her class.In 1872, she was appointed Corresponding Secretary for New Jersey by the New York branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and later served as Recording Secretary of the board of managers of that body.During Crane's term of service as corresponding secretary of this society, she was active and successful in forming local societies in aid of the cause.