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04-18-2005, 04:17 PM
Honoring Women Preachers
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Women Preachers that I’ve Wondered about:
Here I will drop a few names of women preachers of the Oneness faith that I have wondered whatever became of them. Here they are:
Flo Marie Bell, a teenage Evangelist in the 1950s about two years older than I. She was carefully managed by her mother. She held a great salvation healing crusade in New Orleans about 1954. Haven’t heard from her but once since then.
Peggy Richards, a tent Evangelist in the 1950s and 60s. Preached tent crusades all over the South, mostly in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Mattie Crawford, aka Rose Dawn, a radio and tent Evangelist. Held a tent meeting in the 1920s for Bishop Rowe in which Bro. Mangun’s older sister that was given up to die was healed of cancer. The Mangun girl was taken on a stretcher, just skin and bones to the meeting. The service had already begun. As they entered the tent, Sister Crawford said, “Go your way, Jesus Christ has made your daughter completely whole.” She was instantly healed.
I was also trying to remember the name of a really great woman Evangelist that was originally from Chester, Texas. She later hailed from Arkansas. Later, she became a missionary to Germany. She has preached at the General Conferences of the UPCI. Help me out, someone.
God has called many women to preach the gospel. Many have not been faithful to that call for fear of man and the intimidation that comes from misunderstood scriptures. Nevertheless, it does not negate the call nor does it abrogate the anointing that God would bestow upon those women that would answer the call to the harvest field.
In fact, as I write this, I feel that there are some women that will read this whose hearts will be touched to again reconsider the call that God has placed upon your lives to surrender to his will and preach the anointed messages that God has been giving you. Do not be intimidated any longer. If you will purpose in your heart to please God in your calling, God will give you light and strength to obey His call.
Of course, our own Sister Nona Freeman, a neighbor to my children in N. Ft. Worth, is without peer, now becoming quite aged, though her powerful anointing yet abides.
I do not mean for this thread to become a debate about whether or not God calls some women to preach his Word, but rather to encourage those women that have been called, to obey the call. I already know that there are many nay-sayers that would discourage the women folk, but I would ask that this not be one of the places to discourage them.
Calling to day, Jesus is calling to day. Who will hasten to obey the call? Which of you women that have been secretly called in your burdened time of prayer, though you have not spoken to anyone about it, for fear, will step forward and say, “I hear the cry of the perishing that I, I alone can reach?” You will probably not respond here, but you know who you are. Calling today, Jesus is calling today. How long will you refuse the call before that tender, pleading voice of the Spirit falls into permanent silence? Then, what will your answer be?
Take courage my sister, the powers of darkness would hold you back, but you must be bold. Go to a street corner. Ask permission to use a room at a local college or university. Shop around the city for a church, any church, any church at all, that will open the doors to hear the good news from the lips of a “sent woman.” Open your home up and put out flyers announcing with headlines that “Jesus Saves, Jesus Heals.” Advertise bible studies, prayer for the sick and suffering. Pick one foot up and step forward, then pick the other foot up and do it again and again. God will bless you and anoint you in so many unexpected ways. But don’t be discouraged when the devil fights back. That is the time to take courage and listen to the voice of the Spirit.
If there was ever a woman that had everything against her to preach the Gospel, it was indeed Sister Willie Johnson. After going to church, her husband would lock her out of the house in freezing weather forcing her to walk the streets all night long to keep from freezing to death. Only when it dawned, would he let her in. She had everything against her except the knowledge that God had called her to work in his field. She counted the cost, counting all as loss, if need be, that she might obey her singular call. She is now with Jesus resting in the knowledge that, like Dorcas, she did what she could.
I have a 584 page book entitled “Signs and Wonders.” It is about the ministry of Sister Maria Woodworth-Etter. She was probably the greatest women Evangelist of all times. She conducted tent crusades all over America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. She was uniquely anointed with a great healing ministry. In her early ministry, her greatest battle was the fear of man. Yet, the anointing of the Holy Ghost was upon her so greatly that people in upper story office buildings would fall under the power of God as she walked down the street. When she had a meeting in the same town as D.L. Moody, his meetings would be mostly empty but Sister Etter’s would be filled beyond capacity. People by the thousands was attracted by the power and glory of God in her life and ministry.
The words of the old song says, “Men are crying, souls are dying, win the lost at any cost.”
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Bro Strange
Visit my web site
www.ApostolicLibrary.com
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Women Preachers that I’ve Wondered about:
Here I will drop a few names of women preachers of the Oneness faith that I have wondered whatever became of them. Here they are:
Flo Marie Bell, a teenage Evangelist in the 1950s about two years older than I. She was carefully managed by her mother. She held a great salvation healing crusade in New Orleans about 1954. Haven’t heard from her but once since then.
Peggy Richards, a tent Evangelist in the 1950s and 60s. Preached tent crusades all over the South, mostly in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Mattie Crawford, aka Rose Dawn, a radio and tent Evangelist. Held a tent meeting in the 1920s for Bishop Rowe in which Bro. Mangun’s older sister that was given up to die was healed of cancer. The Mangun girl was taken on a stretcher, just skin and bones to the meeting. The service had already begun. As they entered the tent, Sister Crawford said, “Go your way, Jesus Christ has made your daughter completely whole.” She was instantly healed.
I was also trying to remember the name of a really great woman Evangelist that was originally from Chester, Texas. She later hailed from Arkansas. Later, she became a missionary to Germany. She has preached at the General Conferences of the UPCI. Help me out, someone.
God has called many women to preach the gospel. Many have not been faithful to that call for fear of man and the intimidation that comes from misunderstood scriptures. Nevertheless, it does not negate the call nor does it abrogate the anointing that God would bestow upon those women that would answer the call to the harvest field.
In fact, as I write this, I feel that there are some women that will read this whose hearts will be touched to again reconsider the call that God has placed upon your lives to surrender to his will and preach the anointed messages that God has been giving you. Do not be intimidated any longer. If you will purpose in your heart to please God in your calling, God will give you light and strength to obey His call.
Of course, our own Sister Nona Freeman, a neighbor to my children in N. Ft. Worth, is without peer, now becoming quite aged, though her powerful anointing yet abides.
I do not mean for this thread to become a debate about whether or not God calls some women to preach his Word, but rather to encourage those women that have been called, to obey the call. I already know that there are many nay-sayers that would discourage the women folk, but I would ask that this not be one of the places to discourage them.
Calling to day, Jesus is calling to day. Who will hasten to obey the call? Which of you women that have been secretly called in your burdened time of prayer, though you have not spoken to anyone about it, for fear, will step forward and say, “I hear the cry of the perishing that I, I alone can reach?” You will probably not respond here, but you know who you are. Calling today, Jesus is calling today. How long will you refuse the call before that tender, pleading voice of the Spirit falls into permanent silence? Then, what will your answer be?
Take courage my sister, the powers of darkness would hold you back, but you must be bold. Go to a street corner. Ask permission to use a room at a local college or university. Shop around the city for a church, any church, any church at all, that will open the doors to hear the good news from the lips of a “sent woman.” Open your home up and put out flyers announcing with headlines that “Jesus Saves, Jesus Heals.” Advertise bible studies, prayer for the sick and suffering. Pick one foot up and step forward, then pick the other foot up and do it again and again. God will bless you and anoint you in so many unexpected ways. But don’t be discouraged when the devil fights back. That is the time to take courage and listen to the voice of the Spirit.
If there was ever a woman that had everything against her to preach the Gospel, it was indeed Sister Willie Johnson. After going to church, her husband would lock her out of the house in freezing weather forcing her to walk the streets all night long to keep from freezing to death. Only when it dawned, would he let her in. She had everything against her except the knowledge that God had called her to work in his field. She counted the cost, counting all as loss, if need be, that she might obey her singular call. She is now with Jesus resting in the knowledge that, like Dorcas, she did what she could.
I have a 584 page book entitled “Signs and Wonders.” It is about the ministry of Sister Maria Woodworth-Etter. She was probably the greatest women Evangelist of all times. She conducted tent crusades all over America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. She was uniquely anointed with a great healing ministry. In her early ministry, her greatest battle was the fear of man. Yet, the anointing of the Holy Ghost was upon her so greatly that people in upper story office buildings would fall under the power of God as she walked down the street. When she had a meeting in the same town as D.L. Moody, his meetings would be mostly empty but Sister Etter’s would be filled beyond capacity. People by the thousands was attracted by the power and glory of God in her life and ministry.
The words of the old song says, “Men are crying, souls are dying, win the lost at any cost.”
__________________
Bro Strange
Visit my web site
www.ApostolicLibrary.com