Her sons rise up and call her blessed

Jerome · Jan 31, 2014

Rev. Audrey Johnson Was a Pioneering Baptist Woman Preacher

Rev. Audrey died Thursday, Jan. 23, at age 77. She had lived in Houston since Hurricane Katrina when she and her husband Felix left their home on Fairmont Drive in Gentilly. I don't remember how many years ago it was that our congregation was told that Rev. Audrey had been placed in hospice. But I know I saw her at least twice after that - in the pulpit at Christian Unity, a little less steady on her feet, but still full of good news.
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She was that good. Not just as a woman preacher, but as a preacher." ―Dwight Webster, pastor of Christian Unity Baptist Church, on Audrey Johnson
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For women members especially, he said, having women in the pulpit "signals that the ministry of this church takes seriously the fact that no one person, particularly a man, can cover all the bases as it comes to ministerial sensibility."
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Fred Luter, pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church and president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said Thursday that he started at what its students jokingly called the Fairmont Seminary in 1978. He had recently accepted Christ, he said, and Elizabeth Williams, the woman he'd soon marry, told him about the Johnsons. . . .It was while attending that Bible study, Luter said, "that I received my calling."
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