Women in the Field of Social Justice

Women have always played a role in doing justice in the Church of Our Lord Jesus. Whether it was praying, encouraging, rallying, or working in the home and foreign fields, we dedicate this stop on the tour to some of the women who were apart of the early years of the churches’ works of social justice.

Mother Carrie F. Lawson was a quiet humble woman who you did not see in public that much but in her role of praying on the radio broadcasts she was known as the "Praying Woman of the Air" as she prayed for the homeless, the soldiers who were fighting during World War Il, the burdened and the unsaved.

 As the Lord continued to bless Refuge Temple and the Church Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Bishop Lawson began to devote more time and energy to the work of Foreign Mission.

A mission in the Dominican Republic was started by Sister Marie Whyte in the mid 1950's, and by January, 1956, the first Church Of Our Lord Jesus Christ was dedicated in the city of Trujillo, Dominican Republic.

The success of Church Of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the West Indies and the Dominican Republic was due in large measure also. to the untiring and ceaseless efforts of Mother Delphia Perry who also made many trips there, and continually sent clothing, money and supplies from the Missionary Department.

Meanwhile, in Africa, Sister Margaret Giles Johnson ventured in to the Bassa Tribe in 1948. Sister Frances Canady left the United States to go to Africa to relieve Sister Giles Johnson and to teach and expand the work of the school and hospital there. Working in Africa with them was Mother Eva Delines, who first introduced Mother Giles and Sister Canady to many key people in.

In 1958, Bishop Lawson and Sister Evelyn Lawson made a missionary journey to Africa. He baptized 63 people in the jungles of West Africa, and the next day 50 received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Twenty churches came in with us, making COOLJC one of the strongest evangelical Jesus-name churches in all of West Africa.