Caring for the spirit

Holman
provides
insight to the

inner glory
By ROBERT PIERCE
Leader &Times
2 LABOR OF LOVE

SPRING 2016

Isaiah 60: 1-3 reads Arise, shine; for thy

light is come, and the glory of the Lord is
risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness
shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the
people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee,
and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And
the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and
kings to the brightness of thy rising.
These verses were the inspiration for the founding of
Liberals Risen Glory Church, and its pastor, Ann Holman,
was first called into the ministry shortly after coming to
Christ in 1973.
Within a few years of teaching as a high school English
teacher, I started Bible teaching, she said. I would have
home groups and things like that, womens group. I taught
adult Sunday school.
In the early 1990s, Holman said she began to feel God
impressing on her to get ordained.

I had not been ordained, she said. I went through the

process through Full Gospel Evangelistic Association.
Wednesday, Holman officially celebrated the 19th
anniversary of her ordination, and on Sunday, May 1, the
church will likewise celebrate its 19th year, as it was planted
shortly after Holman became ordained.
Throughout its entire existence, Risen Glory has been at its
location on South Virginia Avenue in a building that looks
more equipped to be that of an auto shop than a church.
Holman said the church and her becoming an ordained
pastor have both been a big undertaking.
I never thought that God would call me into pastoring, but
He did, and He made it very plain, she said.
As Risen Glory was being built, so too were its youth and
Sunday school divisions.
We even had a newsletter, Holman said.
About two years after her church began, the local pastor
recalled a march for Jesus concert in Austin, Texas, where she
said God started to impress on her to not just concentrate on
building Risen Glory.
It was very distinct that He wanted me to start praying for