Mary J. Small

Mary J. Small (1850 – 1945) ta kasance mai daraja a Cocin Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AME Sion Church), kuma ita ce mace ta farko da ta kai matsayin dattijo .  Jackson, Marianne (Spring 2005). "Sisters in the Spirit: Black Women Preachers Hearing the Call" (PDF). Kent State University Writing Review.

 Rayuwar farko 
An haifi Mary J. Small a ranar 20 ga Oktoba, 1850, a Murphy's Boro, Tennessee, ga mahaifiyar Agnes Blair. Jackson, Marianne (Spring 2005). "Sisters in the Spirit: Black Women Preachers Hearing the Call" (PDF). Kent State University Writing Review.  Ba a san shekarun kuruciyarta ko mahaifinta ba.  A cikin shekarar 1873, ta auri Reverend John Small, wani sanannen bishop a cikin AME Sion Church. 

 Aikin kiwo 
Da farko Small yana adawa da mata masu wa'azi.  Ta ƙi yin wa’azi har ranar 21 ga Janairun shekarar 1892, lokacin da Dokta John E. Price ya ba ta lasisin yin wa’azi.  A ranar 19 ga Mayu, 1985, Bishop A. Walters ya naɗa Small a matsayin diacon .  Ko da yake ta kasance mai ƙwazo a cikin ƙungiyoyin bishara, babu wata shaida da ta nuna Mary J. Small ta yi limamin coci.  Koyaya, Small ta ba da gudummawa da yawa ga al'ummar cocinta. A cikin dukan aikinta, Small ya yi aiki a cocin AME Sihiyona, yana aiki a kan kwamitocin Ma'auni da Gidan Mata da Harkokin Waje.  Ta kasance shugabar ƙungiyar mata ta cocin AME Sion. 

Small ya yi aiki tare da mijinta a cikin AME Sion Church, ciki har da matsayin mishan a Afirka, har mutuwarsa a 1905.  A Amurka, sun gudanar da aikin Ikklesiya tare a Washington, DC, North Carolina, Connecticut, da sauran jihohi. "Who was Mary J. Small? - The Handy African American History Answer Book". www.papertrell.com. Retrieved 2020-04-17. Hakanan ita ce mace ta farko da aka naɗa dattijo, tsari mafi girma na lokacin, lokacin da aka amince da naɗin ta a ranar 23 ga Mayu, 1898, a haɗin gwiwar Philadelphia da Baltimore na Cocin.  An nada ta ne bayan ta ci jarrabawa, kuma ko da yake ministoci da dama sun nuna rashin amincewarsu da neman a saurare ta, amma an zaɓe ta a matsayin dattijo da kuri’u 24 zuwa 13.  . Cocin AME Sihiyona ita ce ta fara buɗe wa mata wannan babban matsayi. Jackson, Marianne (Spring 2005). "Sisters in the Spirit: Black Women Preachers Hearing the Call" (PDF). Kent State University Writing Review. A matsayinsa na dattijo, Small yana da haƙƙoƙi iri ɗaya na minista, gami da iko akan maza na cocin. 

Tasirin zamantakewa kuma yana da girma, kamar yadda aka gani a cikin Mary J. Small Social Club. Ƙungiyar mata ce da ke haɗuwa a kowane wata, kuma ta haɗa da ayyuka kamar kiɗa da karatu..

 Mutuwa 
Ta mutu a ranar 11 ga Satumban shekarar 1945, tana da shekaru 94, a McKeesport, Pennsylvania . "Who was Mary J. Small? - The Handy African American History Answer Book". www.papertrell.com. Retrieved 2020-04-17.  An gudanar da jana'izar a ƙaramar cocin AME Sion, kuma an binne ta a makabartar Lebanon a York .  

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