LWML — Lutheran Women in Mission

LCMS women have been “influencers” in our American culture over the years, using their many gifts and talents to share Jesus’ love in their homes, families, churches, schools, and work places. Here are stories about LCMS women who applied biblical principles in their vocations; some names you may recognize, while others are known only to a few.

Rosa

Pray. Pray. Pray. These words are repeated over and over on every page of the book Light in the Dark Belt, the autobiography of Dr. Rosa Young.

Known as “the mother of Black Lutheranism,” Rosa was born in 1890 into an extremely poor Black family of ten children in rural Rosebud, Alabama. “Home” was a small log hut. Her father, a farmer and a preacher in the local church, taught her about God. She also read the Bible, the one book in her home. She was a very bright student who excelled at her small, rural, Black elementary school, rising early to work in the field before school and returning to the field each afternoon until nightfall. In the evening, she taught her younger siblings what she had learned that day.

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