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Pastor Carolyn Sissom: I received a call when I was sixteen years old, but did not understand what the call was. In those days there were limitied ways a woman could serve God in Public Ministry. (1) music (2) teacher of children (3) missionary (4) ministry of helps. Except for the fact that I have never hit a musical note, I served the Lord the best I could in all of the above. When I was thirty-three years old, I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the Jeremiah call. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. Before you were born I set you apart: I appointed you as a Prophet to the Nations." I still did not have a clue. I raised my two daughters, was the best wife I knew how to be and continued to serve the Lord as a teacher, ministry of helps and intercessor.In 1989, a pastor came to me and told me, "The Lord told me to ordain you." I still was in amazement, but after I prayed, the Lord spoke to me in a vision of the night. He said, " I ordained you years ago. Now I will cause men to ordain you. And Men of God have ordained me without me soliciting or asking. When my youngest daughter went off to college, I was on my hands and knees mopping the kitchen floor. The Holy Spirit spoke to me. He said, "I am going to put you into public ministry." Within days a Bible Study started that became the first church. I answered the call to Pastor. In The Service of The Lamb of God Carolyn Sissom |