Nearly 20 years ago, when the Rev. Susie Elliott, 83, preached her first sermon at Mt. Paran Baptist Church on the border of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick, she was an anomaly in Brooklyn’s male-dominated world of Christian pastors.
Pastor Susie discovered early on that simply being ordained would not guarantee a woman a spot at the pulpit. Often women were “benched” while the men led the congregation. Determined to level the playing field, she founded Mother/Daughters of Zion, a group that champions women as pastors and supports their efforts to become leaders in their own churches.
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