Female Leadership

ID: 926 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Fred R. Gildersleeve
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Female Leadership

The first choir at First Presbyterian was established by the late 1880s alongside the Women’s Working Society during a period in which the Presbyterian church worked to develop more leadership roles for women. First Presbyterian Church of Waco called its first full time female minister in 1984.

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By Amanda Sawyer
First Presbyterian Church of Waco is one of McLennan County’s oldest Protestant congregations, formed several years before Waco’s incorporation as a city. On April 20, 1855, a group of Presbyterians in Waco Village petitioned the Central Texas…