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Marie Louise Clay Clinton (1871 – January 9, 1934) was an American educator, singer, and church leader. She was the founder and superintendent of the Buds of Promise Juvenile Mission Society, under the Women's Home and Overseas Missionary Society (WH&OMS) of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (A.M.E. Zion Church).
Throughout her career, Small worked in the A.M.E. Zion church, serving on the Temperance and Women's Home and Foreign Missions committees. [6] She was also president of the A.M.E. Zion church's Women's Society. [7] Small worked alongside her husband in the A.M.E. Zion Church, including as a missionary in Africa, until his death in 1905. [8]
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, or the AME Zion Church (AMEZ) is a historically African-American Christian denomination based in the United States. It was officially formed in 1821 in New York City, but operated for a number of years before then. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology. [1]
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Alice never wed, or drove an automobile, she lived a quiet life, active in her church and kept working as a housekeeper. She was honored by the church in her later years, ordained a Deaconess and elevated to membership in the Women's Home and Overseas Missionary Society, [13] a major outreach of the AME Zion church in the 1980s. [14]
This was the last expansion in the official roles open to women in the AME Church until 1948 when the Church reversed the decision of 1888 to ordain women as Local Deacons. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It appears that Rebecca M. Glover, assistant pastor of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first woman to be ordained following the new ...
At 10 a.m. Sunday, St. James African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the city's oldest Black congregation, at 209 Second St. SW, plans a mortgage-burning celebration for its Family Life Center at ...
Church Women United (CWU) is a national ecumenical Christian women's movement representing Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and other Christian women. Founded in 1941, as the United Council of Church Women , [ 1 ] this organization has more than 1,200 local and state units in the United States and Puerto Rico .