They Stood Alone - Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.

HonoringWomenof the Cloth• •SororMary Carolyn AllenSororLeatrice J.W. Emeruwa14Soror Mary Carolyn AllenGamma Mu Sigma (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)Assistant PastorHis Church Non Denominational in Guthrie, Oklahoma.Soror Allen became an official minister at the ProgressiveBaptist Church in Tulsa in 1995. She has used her faith asthe foundation and spring board for the various roles she hasheld in Sigma Gamma Rho, in her professional life as pastcoordinator of Job Corps and in her personal life as a cancersurvivor.Rev. Leatrice J.W. Emeruwa, Ed.DAlpha Lambda Sigma (Cleveland, Ohio)Williams Center of Truthwww.williamscenteroftruth.orgRev.leatricejoy-preacherpoet#1@messageofhope.comIn her own words …Never consciously thinking of becoming a minister, it wasn’ta calling I set as a goal. “Baptist born, Baptist bred, gonna bea Baptist til’ I’m dead,” I always thought. But Spirit had otherplans. I finally obeyed and I love the path God has set me on:To share messages of hope and prophecy through prayer andspiritual healing as Jesus did” – with any who so desire.Working as a Religious Science Practitioner – specializing inprayer and spiritual healing with individuals – at the churchI helped charter in 1982, might have started me subliminally.I became interested in theology and studied at Johnnie ColemonInstitute (Chicago) and later with Fellowships of theSpirit (New York), becoming ordained in 1996 as a Spiritualistminister by the latter. I had already founded A.C.M.E. in 1991for religious studies, Black History and creative education;then Ausar Center Church in 1993. At presents, as foundationalminister of Williams Center of Truth, I conduct prayerservice, entertain sermon engagements and maintain a prayerline (216-791-PRAY), while awaiting further guidance fromthe Master.Ironically, I can’t help laughing when I think of my earliestmemories singing “Jesus Loves Me” as a three-year old atsummer Bible school. Never, ever dreaming, expecting ordesiring in my wildest fantasies to become a minister – or soI thought.