EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1900; FREDA SCHIMPF LINDSAY P/15

                                                                                                                                                                         

In this post I will focus on a woman named Freda Schimpf Lindsay. She lived from 1914 - 2010. Her parents were Gottfred and Kaity Schimpf. The family lived in Burstall, Saskatchewan, Canada but they moved to Oregon. 

One of twelve children, Freda began working in the fields of Oregon when she was nine years old to help put food on the table. At age thirteen, Freda got a job cleaning houses, washing, ironing, and cooking, earning £3 per week, enabling her to go to Jefferson High school in Portland, Oregon.

In 1932, eighteen year old Freda attended a revival meeting in Portland. As she was making her way to the door, evangelist Gordon Lindsay stopped her and said, "Freda, I thought this would be your night." Convicted, she rushed to the altar. "I was no big sinner, but I knew I wasn't serving the Lord," she said. "That night, I felt the Lord spoke to me and said, "Freda, if you follow Me, obey Me, walk faithfully in pureness, you will one day marry this evangelist." In 1937, Freda married Gordon Lindsay. They pastored a church Gordon had started in San Fernando, California. 

EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1900; ELIZABETH SCHMIDT P/14

 

In this brief post I will focus on a woman named Elizabeth Schmidt. She lived from 1908 - 1986. Elizabeth was the daughter of a Member of Parliament and studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and then theology in Geneva. From 1935 - 1941, she was assistant with the Saint Croix Vallee Francaise Parish in the Cevennes region and then in Sete until 1958. The parishioners themselves asked for her ordination.

 

 

 

 

                        

                                              

           

           WISHING EVERYONE A BLESSED                                                                                                                    AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 

 

 

 

 

                               

 

  WISHING EVERYONE A MERRY CHRISTMAS

               AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 

EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1900; ROSA L. MCCAULEY PARKS P/13 1913

 

In this post I will continue to share the story of a woman named Rosa L.McCauley Parks. She lived from 1913 - 2005. By the time Rosa boarded a bus in 1955, when she famously refused to sit in the part of the bus she was supposed to sit, she was an established organiser and leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama. 

Rosa not only showed active resistance by refusing to move, she also helped organise and plan the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Many have tried to diminish Rosa's role in the boycott by depicting her as a seamstress who simply did not want to move because she was tired. 

Rosa denied the claim and years later revealed her true motivation: "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1900; ROSA L. PARKS P/12

 

In this post I will focus on a woman named Rosa L. McCauley Parks. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama and  lived from 1913 - 2005. As a child, she went to an industrial school for girls and later enrolled at Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes (present-day Alabama State University). Unfortunately, Rosa was forced to withdraw after her grandmother became ill. Church wise, Rosa was a life-long member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Growing up in the segregated South, Rosa was frequently confronted with racial discrimination and violence. She became active in the Civil Rights Movement at a young age.

Rosa married a local barber by the name of Raymond Parks when she was nineteen years old. He was actively fighting to end racial injustice. Together, Rosa and her husband worked with many social organisations. Eventually, Rosa was elected secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP).

EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1900; ULDINE MABELLE UTLEY P/11

 

In this story I will focus on a woman named Uldine Mabelle Utley. She lived from 1912 -1995. Uldine was born in Durant, Oklahoma, USA. Her parents were Azie Herbert Utley and Hattie Ellen Bray Utley. Her father was an electrician, a farmer and a postmaster while the family lived in Colorado.

Uldine had a conversion experience in 1921, inspired by the preaching of Aimee Semple McPherson while she was living in Fresno, California. Within two years Uldine was preaching across the United States, and at the age of fourteen she preached to a crowd of 14,000 people at Madison Square Garden. 

In 1928, Uldine married salesman Wilbur Eugene Langkop but they eventually divorced. 

In 1935, Uldine was ordained by the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was called "the Joan of Arc of the modern religious world." She was also called a "second Billy Sunday" and, as a young woman, "the ingenue of evangelism."

Uldine died in 1995, at the age of 83.