Senior Pastor Margaret A. Jamison Hodges
Greater St. Paul Healing & Deliverance
International Worship Center
Brooklyn, New York
Stats: Senior Pastor Margaret Hodges, is a servant at heart. During her Christian walk she has served as Usher, Sunday School Teacher, Deaconess, Y.P.H.A. President for 19½ years, Pastor’s Aide Member, Director of the Outreach Ministry, and Choir Chaplain before accepting the call to shepherd God’s people. In the early 1970's Pastor Hodges was invited to service at St. Paul United Church of God; it was there that she met the woman who God used to bring change to her life – the late Senior Pastor Ernestine M. Shiver. who was an anointed woman of class, character, charm and dignity. She ministered a word of healing that told Margaret to rise from the ashes of defeat, to forget those things that are behind, and reach forth to the things that were before her. Pastor E.M. Shiver ministered to the person that was locked inside of Margaret. Pastor Shiver became the friend and mother Margaret needed by encouraging her and imparting spiritual gifts into her life through the laying on of hands. Margaret was the first soul of many birthed into the ministry because Pastor Shiver was willing to obey the voice of the Lord.Remembering the first time Pastor Shiver shared with Margaret the plan of becoming a pastor, she said, “Not me, you mean someone else.” Even when she was to preach the word, she was not so willing to do so and Pastor Shiver would say, “When the Lord gets through with you, you’ll be glad to say yes.”
