Bishop violet fisher biography of martin
Bishop violet fisher biography of martin short!
UCB is written collaboratively by you and our community of volunteers.
Bishop violet fisher biography of martin
Please edit and add contents by clicking on the add and edit links to the right of the content
- Basic Info
- Attachments
- Relations
- Organizations
- Accomplishments
- Schools
- Employers
Reverend Violet Fisher is the second oldest of Deacon William Fisher and Holiness preacher Mrs.
Virginia Fisher's five children. Bishop Fisher received two Master's Degrees, one in Education and the other in Divinity, as well as a Doctorate in Divinity. Called to be an evangelist, Bishop Fisher began preaching at the age of 16.
Though her roots were in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the opportunity as an African American woman to preach and to be ordained was in the King's Apostle Holiness Church of God. In this movement, she served as National Evangelist and as a short-term missionary to Tanzania, Kenya, Jamaica, Uganda, and the Republic of Haiti.
In 1969, when her missionary work began in Africa, few African A