Dr. Lillie Mae Green

Pastor Dr. Lillie Mae Green, 87, passed from this life into eternal life on February 20, 2020.
Pastor Dr. Lillie Mae Green was born October 30, 1932 in Camden, Alabama to the union of James Lewis and Carrie Bell Lewis (Thompson). She was the second oldest of six children from that union.
Pastor Green had many titles, which were wife, mother, grandma, great grandma, Sister Green, Teacher, Missionary, Minster Green, Evangelist Green, Dr. Green, Mother Green, Pastor Green and truly a friend. She played a pivotal role of each with an accomplishment of fulfillment until her death. In this journey of working for the Lord, and with her faithful husband Deacon Green and along with their children by her side.
Here’s the life journey of Pastor Dr. Lillie Mae Green. Putting on the whole armor of God.
Pastor Green was blessed to be raised in God’s service at the age of 12. She walked eight miles each way and attended the Camden Alabama Public School System for only Blacks (African American) children. She graduated in 1955 from the University of Alabama and received her teaching degree. She was united in Holy Matrimony to Isseal Green (aka Evans) for fifty years and to this union was blessed with nine children.
She received her Doctor of Divinity Degree and also had the honor of being a Dean of the Christian Education of National College of Religious Science. She was an author of two books (Testing Your Brain and Crossing Over), an activist for three organizations, and the civil rights movement were she continued to be active in the movement until her illness.
In 1956, she experienced the baptism of the Holy Ghost and faithfully served her home church and teaching in the Sunday School Department. Pastor Green, husband and family moved to Kentucky and then Cincinnati, Ohio. She was honored to be a substitute teacher, in the Covington Public System. Then in 1960s, she accepted a higher calling to ministry and fulfilled the demands of a Missionary. Her love for the Lord and diligence reaching the un-churched population through bible study, prison ministry, radio program, prayers lines, community prayers, tent (revival) services, outreach programs, nursing home, shelter for women and children, and more.
She continued the worked under her Pastor Mother Betsy Armstrong of Saint Mark Second Born Church. Pastor Green was under the Second Born Churches, with Bishop Edwards, Bishop McDaniel and the late Pastor Martha McDaniel Williams. She was called and was a divine servant of the Lord Jesus Christ well qualified to pastor and obtained her ordained license to pastor.
In 1980, Pastor Green was the founder of St. John Second Born Church. Her mission as stated in Ephesians 4:11-12, the fivefold ministry to equip the saints for the work, and building up the body of Christ to win souls.
While serving as Pastor, she continued her missionary work, and held her official position as the founder of The Love Center. She served Over the Rhine and other parts of City of Cincinnati, offering food, clothes, prayers and the Word of God and giving emotional support with God’s love. Pastor Green organized praise marching bands on the street, in the areas of Downtown, Avondale, Madisonville, Northside and others areas.
Pastor Green held services in her home at times, and she had a special room that she called the Upper Room for prayers, meditations, and a library of religious books for studying the word of God. God instructed her strongly, to rename the church to St John Full Gospel Apostolic Faith, under Bishop Raleigh Lee Jr. Under the new name, she continued the Lord’s mission and noticed St John Full Gospel Apostolic Faith wasn’t for members only but had a reputation of being a Holy train station church. Fulfilling those who need rest, uplift, restore, recover, renew, regenerate and refilled of God’s word. She upheld the mission of Jesus Christ, being an example of Him. She taught others the same example which led them into their own ministries. Pastor Green held platform services and events for ministers, singing groups and artists an opportunity to use their gifts at Saint John Full Gospel Apostolic Faith.
Pastor Green leaves to cherish her legacy of five sons Milton, Emmanuel, Evans, Larry, Mark and one daughter Sherry (preceded Lemuel); grandchildren Ollist, DeAngelio, Ashley, Mark Jr, Isaiah, Andrew, Damien, Makayla, Imani, Evans Jr, Maria, Terry Jr, Ronald Jr, stepchildren Mario, Jamar, Marlon, Douglas; great grandchildren Malike, Marke, Jamarko, Major and host of other families and friends. Pastor Green preceded from her life into eternal life joined together again with her husband Isseal Green and a long with their three sons; Michael, Ronald, Terry and sibling Annie Bell McQueen, her four brothers and her parents James and Carrie Bell Lewis.