Jarena Lee (February 11, 1783 – February 3, 1864) was the first woman preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). Born into a free Black...

helping do humanitarian work since Mother Mary Lange's death in 1882.   Jarena Lee was born in 1783 as a free person. As a child in New Jersey she was a...

1764) and John Bunyan (Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666). Jarena Lee (1783–1864) was the first African American woman to have a published biography...

during the period. Jarena Lee published two religious autobiographical narratives: The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee and Religious Experience...

in Methodism influenced the African Methodist Episcopal Church, with Jarena Lee and Amanda Smith preaching the doctrine of entire sanctification throughout...

Lankenau (1817–1901), German-American businessman and philanthropist Jarena Lee (1783–1864), the first woman authorized to preach by Richard Allen, founder...

white congregation Adoniram Judson, early Baptist missionary. Ann Lee, Shakers Jarena Lee, Methodist, a female AME circuit rider Robert Matthews, cult following...

Great Awakening African American founding fathers of the United States Jarena Lee Bowden, Henry Warner (1993). Dictionary of American religious biography...

formalized in 1828. The first African Methodist Episcopal woman to preach, Jarena Lee, faced resistance to her calling. She was denied ordination by the founder...

1915 at the age of 78. African Methodist Episcopal Church Mary G. Evans Jarena Lee Martha Jayne Keys "The Final Ministry of Amanda Berry Smith". Illinois...