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Reverend Dr. Emma Marie Davis Kimbrough is a pastor, preacher, teacher, prayer warrior, author, mother of 5 (James, Herman, Kevin, Natasha and Tamar), Godmother of 1 (Geri), grandmother of 10 and great-grandmother of 4. She has worked as a secretary, teacher and pastor and enjoys public speaking, writing, working on the computer and meeting new people.

 

She received her formal education in the Public Schools of Halifax County, North Carolina, graduating from Brawley High School, Scotland Neck, North Carolina in 1968 in the top 5 percentile of her class. She earned her Bachelor of Science Degree cum Laude in Business Education from Baruch College in New York, New York, her Master of Divinity from Drew Theological School in Madison, New Jersey and her Doctor of Theology from Manna Bible College in Wilson, North Carolina.

 

Rev. Kimbrough was licensed to the gospel ministry in June 1989 and ordained in March 1993 at Friendship Ministries, Inc., Newark, New Jersey. She pastored several congregations in the United Methodist Church, ministered in various long-term care nursing facilities and founded her own Ministry—Freedom Worship and Praise—in 2005.

 

In December 2023 Dr. Kimbrough was installed as Pastor of Chestnut Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Tillery, North Carolina—the church in which she grew up. Each Sunday on Facebook Live at 4:30 P.M. Eastern Time, she hosts a weekly broadcast on the Book of Revelation and she participates in a weekly Prayer Conference Call each Tuesday at 9:00 A.M. Eastern Time representing Friendship Ministries, Inc.

 

Pastor Kimbrough credits her success first and foremost to God who empowered her with the gifts to make it possible, to her deceased parents, to her family circle who provides love, support and encouragement and to her church families, Friendship Ministries and Chestnut Grove Missionary Baptist Church, who recognized the God-given gifts within her, embraced them and allowed her to go forth in the ministry.

 

TO GOD BE THE GLORY!

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