Betty Robison
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Surrender and Walk in Freedom
Everyone has struggles. But God's power will free us when we give ourselves to Him.I took the old shoebox from my closet and looked through the tattered love letters James had written to me during his first year of college. It occurred to me that they were 20-year-old letters.
A lot had happened in 20 years.
We’d become a family of five. The James Robison Evangelistic Association had grown to its peak in outreach. Many respected spiritual leaders described James as the most dynamic and gifted preacher of our day.
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Florence Spearing Randolph
Holiness preacher and social reformer
Florence Spearing Randolph was among a small group of women evangelists who were licensed to preach and ordained as deacons and elders in the late 19th century. She was a member of the AME Zion Church and one of the first women in the denomination to receive a regular ordination and an appointment to a church.A renowned minister, missionary, suffragist, lecturer, organizer and temperance worker, Florence was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on August 9, 1866, to John and Anna Smith Spearing. When shewas very young, her mother died, leaving her father, a cabinetmaker and painter, with four children to rear.
