Sister Gertrude Morgan: The Mystic of New Orleans - Book - Page 26
When I first walked into New Orleans, I came across Sister
Cora Williams and Mother Margaret Parker on the street.
Mother Margaret saw me coming before I arrived—she had
special vision that enabled her to see what others could not.
We three women started a Mission and took care of orphaned
children. We supported ourselves through our musical street
ministry. Mother Parker shook rattles, Sister Williams played
the cymbals, and I played guitar and drums, and we all three
sang and beat the tambourines. I also played the piano!
We began our mission work at 816½ South Rampart Street, near
Storyville. There were no fewer than seventeen children under
the age of seventeen, two lodgers, and three women to run the
household: Mother Margaret as the head at age forty-seven, with
Sister Cora, aged fifty, and me—then just forty years old. We
later lived in a house at 1123 Ninth Street in the Irish Channel
neighborhood. After that we landed at 533 Flake Avenue in Gentilly.
When the Lord calls, “You ready?” You got to move!
At that time, we all attended the Holiness-Pentecostal church
called Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ.
And in addition to helping those sweet children, Mother
Margaret, Sister Cora, and I also used to visit the Orleans
Parish Prison to drive out those strong sea-monster spirits.
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