Jarena lee biography
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Jarena Lee. Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee (Philadelphia, 1849), frontispiece. First published in 1836.
JARENA LEE (b. 1783)
Jarena Lee was the first female preacher of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of America. Approved to preach by Bishop Richard Allen following her pious exhortation during a visiting minister’s sermon, she spent many years walking the entire country, preaching the gospel. She had her autobiography printed in 1836 and an updated version printed in 1849; following the events recorded in the second edition nothing is known of her life.
In her autobiography she reveals her extensive work from 1832-1833:
“I commenced my journey for Canada, in 1832. From the second day of July to the fifteenth day of October … 1833, I had preached 138 sermons, and traveled between 27 and 28 hundred miles. Returned from Brooklyn, and attended a quarterly meeting at Flushing…. Saturday evening I gave an exhortation, and preached Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, the Lord accompanied the word, and, be it remembered, it will be either a savor of life unto life or of death unto death. Having finished my visit I felt anxious to go to Philadelphia; feeling my labors to come to a close for the present. I arrived sa
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Jarena Lee
American preacher (1783–1864)
Jarena Lee
Born (1783-02-11)11 February 1783 Cape May, New Jersey
Died February 3, 1864(1864-02-03) (aged 80) Spouse Joseph Lee Known for Preaching Religion Christian Denomination African Methodist Episcopal Founder of Wesleyan Holiness Movement Jarena Lee (February 11, 1783 – February 3, 1864[1]) was the first woman preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME).[2] Born into a free Black family in New Jersey, Lee asked the founder of the AME church, Richard Allen, to be a preacher. Although Allen initially refused, after hearing her preach in 1819, Allen approved her preaching ministry.[3][4] A leader in the Wesleyan-Holiness movement, Lee preached the doctrine of entire sanctification as an itinerant pastor throughout the pulpits of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination.[3][5] In 1836, Lee became the first African American woman to publish an autobiography.[6]
Early life
[edit]Jarena Lee was born on February 11, 1783, in Cape May, New Jersey, according to the details she published later in life in an autobiography.[7][8] She recounts that she was born into a fre