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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]
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]
Florence Spearing Randolph (August 6 or August 9, 1866 – December 28, 1951) was an American clubwoman, suffragist, and ordained minister, pastor of the Wallace Chapel AME Zion Church in Summit, Union County, New Jersey, United States. from 1925 to 1946. She organized the New Jersey Federation of Colored Women's Clubs and was president of the ...
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]
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 .
In 1896, Sarah Dudley Pettey became involved in the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. Also in 1896, she began writing a bimonthly column in the Star of Zion, the newspaper of the A.M.E. Zion church. [5] She also served as the church's General Secretary for the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society. [2]
Other Methodist denominations developed their own women's foreign missionary organizations. The WFMS of the Methodist Protestant Church was established in 1879. Its office was in Catonsville, Maryland. Its focused on Asia, especially China and Japan. It issued the periodical, The Woman's Missionary Record. Notable people included Mrs. E. C ...