{"id":16586,"date":"2025-07-10T16:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=16586"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:55:15","slug":"warren-ame-church-celebrates-the-womens-missionary-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/warren-ame-church-celebrates-the-womens-missionary-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren AME Church Celebrates the Women\u2019s Missionary Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Truth Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Historic Warren Ame Church celebrated its Woman\u2019s Missionary Society on Sunday, June 29, to acknowledge their legacy of \u201cdivinely called and anointed service,\u201d wrote Senior Pastor Brandon A. A. J. Davis.<\/p>\n

The missionaries of Warren Church, consisting of 12 members of the congregation, are \u201csmall in numbers but mighty in service,\u201d noted President Debra Jelks since they offer assistance not only to members of the congregation to meet their spiritual and physical needs \u00a0(food and supplies, for example) but also to the community at large. The Missionary Society members have adopted the Ella P. Stewart Academy for Girls, for example, as one of their pet projects.<\/p>\n

Warren AME, the oldest African American church in Toledo, was founded in 1847 by escaping enslaved people heading north through Toledo and Cleveland on the underground railroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe missionaries of Historic Warren have consistently been faithful and dedicated to our calling and ministry of service \u2026 let us remain willing to serve and assist those in need,\u201d wrote Davis.<\/p>\n

Warren AME has been providing services \u2013 physical and spiritual \u2013 to the community since its founding. Indeed in 1862, for example, the church opened a Sabbath school to provide former enslaved people with supplementary education.<\/p>\n

The Sunday service opened with the Introit, a processional and the doxology, then the Call to Worship offered by Rosie Payne. After the morning prayer, presented by Shirley Jackson, the Choral Response followed and the Morning Scripture by Dominique Bradley.<\/p>\n

The welcome and announcements, the Missionary Litany, the Altar Prayer and the introduction of the speaker were presented by Missionaries Katrina Cogdell, Joyce Powell-Miller, Darlene Williams and Debra Jelks, Missionaries president.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s speaker was the Rev. Diane Yvonne Greer-Travis of Adrian, Michigan.<\/p>\n

\u201cMissionaries exemplify the finest of God\u2019s servants, showing compassion, grace and unwavering love amid life\u2019s daily challenges in our homes, communities and local churches,\u201d wrote Davis.<\/p>\n

Following the Message, Rev. Darlene Williams offered the Invitation to Christian Discipleship and asked for the tithers and offerings.<\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s Missionary Society officers are: Debra Jelks, president; Theo Simmons-Hampton, vice president; Darlene Sawyer, secretary; Rosie Payne, treasurer; Margaret Huntley, chaplain; Dominique Bradley YPD director.<\/p>\n

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The Truth Staff The Historic Warren Ame Church celebrated its Woman\u2019s Missionary Society on Sunday, June 29, to acknowledge their legacy of \u201cdivinely called and anointed service,\u201d wrote Senior Pastor Brandon A. A. J. Davis. The missionaries of Warren Church, consisting of 12 members of the congregation, are \u201csmall in numbers but mighty in service,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[301],"class_list":["post-16586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16588,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions\/16588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=16586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}