{"id":578,"date":"2014-03-13T17:03:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T21:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2015-01-12T23:37:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T04:37:54","slug":"sister-lizzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Sister Lizzie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Lawliss McAdams was born October 1, 1884, near Troy, Alabama. \u201cSister Lizzie,\u201d as she became known, wanted to be a missionary when she was 13. At 25 she felt God\u2019s call to preach.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo woman in our family or near us had ever preached, and people thought I was losing my mind,\u201d she wrote later. She and her husband, Hiriam, formed an evangelistic team.<\/p>\n

They went to Barbados as missionaries in 1918 and also served as home missionaries. Sister Lizzie was on the first Home Missions Board of the National Association. She served as promotional worker for the National Association in the 1940s and was one of WNAC\u2019s first officers.<\/p>\n

Folks remember her waving a white handkerchief and inviting others to join in a \u201cwave offering\u201d to the Lord. Sister Lizzie made the motion in 1935 uniting East and West as the National Association.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo: The McAdams family standing in front of a revival tent (Lizzie second from left).<\/p>\n

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Damon Dodd called her a trailblazer, prayer warrior, angel of mercy. He wrote of her ministry, \u201cIn the Lead Belt of Southeast Missouri more than 3,000 souls were saved out of a population of 15,000\u2026 I was one\u2026 and my wife and my mother and my brothers and sisters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lizzie died at age 80, having spent 54 years in the ministry. In Rolling Stones,<\/em> she wrote, \u201cWe have preached in 17 states,\u2026 held about 300 revivals with about 10,000 professions of faith\u2026 organized 11 churches and numerous Auxiliaries and Leagues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sister Lizzie wrote, \u201cOne woman wholly in God\u2019s hands outnumbers thousands in the enemy\u2019s hands.\u201d She was God\u2019s woman.<\/span><\/p>\n

About the Writer:<\/strong> Mary Wisehart served many years as chairman of the Free Will Baptist Historical Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Lawliss McAdams was born October 1, 1884, near Troy, Alabama. \u201cSister Lizzie,\u201d as she became known, wanted to be a missionary when she was 13. At 25 she felt God\u2019s call to preach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}