Muriel L. Whetstone Sims

Through Michael’s Angels, an outreach of The Potter’s House in Dallas, Mother Vieanna Rose helps teenage mothers during a critical time in their lives.

When Mother Vieanna Rose is asked to explain why she's drawn to a ministry for pregnant young women, she often responds by relating a story about a trembling teenage girl she once encountered at the altar. The young woman had been beaten and was weeping uncontrollably. She was also overwhelmed by fear, embarrassment and emotional pain. Before the young mother-to-be collapsed on the church's floor, she managed to whisper, "I'm scared, and I have no place to go."

Vieanna is the volunteer director of Michael's Angels, a Christian ministry operated in the youth church of The Potter's House in Dallas, where Bishop T.D. Jakes is the senior pastor. Michael's Angels aspires to mother, mentor and minister God's enduring love into the hearts and lives of teenage, unwed mothers. A simple hello, or a quiet expression of concern and encouragement are just a few of the powerful New Testament messages Michael's Angels mentors provide these young women.

Lois Evans wants to provide senior pastors’ wives with a hedge against the overwhelming demands of home and ministry.

She readily admits that her initial years as the first lady of the church she founded with her husband, Tony Evans, were two of the most difficult seasons she's lived through. To Lois Evans, the senior pastor's wife was a very isolated, much unappreciated role; a stifling position that a loving, supportive wife accepted as her lot, even as she mourned the slow death of her own gifts and talents. Growing up in church, Lois watched as the senior pastor's wife of her childhood attempted to find happiness in that limited, narrow space, and she knew by the time she was a teenager that she wanted none of it.

When Lois accepted God's call into full-time ministry at the age of 15, she told the Lord her heart was open to do whatever He wanted her to do—except serve as a pastor's wife. And when she met her future husband, she was satisfied with young Tony's assurance that although he too felt called into full-time ministry, he wasn't interested in becoming a pastor.