Female leadership becoming trend in black churches

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Leondra Stoney is a young black pastor training for ordination and now leading a small congregation on Daniel Island, St. James AME Wando.

Patricia Miller is a leader at Royal Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston. She is one of 23 associate ministers, eight of whom are women.

Clarissa Walker Whaley is an elder at the historic St. James Presbyterian Church on James Island, and the recently appointed moderator for the Charleston-Atlantic Presbytery.

These women, and many others throughout the Lowcountry, are part of a trend in the black church. Increasingly, women are seeking ordination and assuming senior leadership positions in the region's AME, Presbyterian, Baptist and nondenominational churches.

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