Mother Willie Mae Rivers

Mother Amy L. Engram

Hariett Tubman

Mother Rivers received her formal education in the Berkeley and Charleston County School Systems.
Her Christian experience began as a child. She attended the Mt. Zion AME Church Sunday School. Because of her interest and dedication, she represented her church as a delegate to many conventions. The presiding Elder remarked, “This child will one day be a great leader; she has a mark on her life.”

At the age of fifteen, June 26, 1941, the very lovely Willie Mae Smalls was united in holy matrimony to Mr. David Rivers. Their marriage lasted just short of 56 years until his demise May 15, 1997. This union was blessed with twelve children; two sons and daughters.

After graduating high school at the age of fourteen, she matriculated at Savannah State College, majoring in English. She also became a licensed master cosmetologist. She owned and operated a hair salon and taught cosmetology at Macon Y.D.C and at the Bronner Brothers Trade Show for thirty years. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree of Theology from Christian Life School of Theology.

The Lord has equipped Mother Engram to assist Bishop J. Wayne Leggett, Jurisdictional Prelate, and together they lead the jurisdiction in higher heights and deeper depths in the Lord.

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822[1] – March 10, 1913) was an American Abolitionist and Social Activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement for women's suffrage.

Sojourner Truth

Mother Teresa

A former slave, Sojourner Truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century. Her Civil War work earned her an invitation to meet President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.

Truth was born Isabella Bomfree, a slave in Dutch-speaking Ulster County, New York in 1797. She was bought and sold four times, and subjected to harsh physical labor and violent punishments. In her teens, she was united with another slave with whom she had five children, beginning in 1815. In 1827—a year before New York’s law freeing slaves was to take effect—Truth ran away with her infant Sophia to a nearby abolitionist family, the Van Wageners. The family bought her freedom for twenty dollars and helped Truth successfully sue for the return of her five-year-old-son Peter, who was illegally sold into slavery in Alabama.

Truth moved to New York City in 1828, where she worked for a local minister. By the early 1830s, she participated in the religious revivals that were sweeping the state and became a charismatic speaker. In 1843, she declared that the Spirit called on her to preach the truth, renaming herself Sojourner Truth.

Mother Teresa founded Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation, which grew to have over 4,500 nuns across 133 countries as of 2012.[6] The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis. The congregation also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as orphanages and schools. Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and also profess a fourth vow: to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor."[7] Mother Teresa received several honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize

She was a member of Crisp Street COGIC (Pastor O.C. Walton). -Mother Johnson was serving as State Supervisor of Women of Second Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction under the leadership of Bishop Jack Stephens. She loved her Bishop and felt honored to serve in that capacity. She delivered her last official message Friday, August 16, 2002 during the convocation. -For the life she lived and the service she gave-to God be the glory!