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An itinerant preacher (also known as an itinerant minister) is a Christian evangelist who preaches the basic Christian redemption message while traveling around to different groups of people within a relatively short period of time. [1] The usage of these travelling evangelists is known as itineracy or itinerancy. [2] [3]
Jarena Lee (February 11, 1783 – February 3, 1864 [1]) was the first woman preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). [2] Born into a free Black family in New Jersey, Lee asked the founder of the AME church, Richard Allen, to be a preacher. Although Allen initially refused, after hearing her preach in 1819, Allen approved her ...
[3] [better source needed] Kuhlman had a spiritual experience at age 14, and several years later she began itinerant preaching with her elder sister and brother-in-law in Idaho. Later, she was ordained by the Evangelical Church Alliance. [4] Amanda H. Williams of Brooklyn, New York helped birth Kuhlman's healing ministry. [4] [5]
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Julia A.J. Foote, the daughter of former slaves, was born in Schenectady, New York in 1823. At the age of ten, Foote was sent to work for a farm family, and for just under two years she lived and worked for the Prime family as a domestic servant. [8]
No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist Convention, a gathering of four historically Black Baptist denominations representing millions of people. Several women ...
In the ensuing decades, other women followed Lee in preaching. For example, Zilpha Elaw was cited as a traveling preacher in Maryland and Harriet Felson Taylor in Washington, D.C. Rachel Evans, in New Jersey, was recorded as a "preacheress of no ordinary ability." [2] Rebecca Cox Jackson also served as a preacher, before entering a Shaker ...
Jim Wallis, an evangelical leader, says White Christian nationalism has existed in the US since its founding. He calls it the “False White Gospel,” and a form of heresy.