Pastor Willie Mae Belin
Pastor Willie Mae Belin was born to the late Willie James and Annie Mae Belin in Florence South Carolina on January 12, 1955. The oldest of nine living siblings, she established a relationship with God through the catastrophic heart condition of her older sister, who spent years in and out of St. Michael’s hospital before transitioning. The two would spend hours talking and reading Bible stories together.
Pastor Belin accepted Christ and was baptized by the Late William Alston at Community Baptist Church in North Plainfield, New Jersey. She has served within the local Body of Christ in many capacities from culinary, Trustees, Licensed Missionary, Evangelist, Minister, and Ordained Reverend. She has been a faithful member of Rose of Sharon Community Church (ROSCC), in Plainfield, New Jersey, for more than 30 years, where she sat under the tutelage of Bishop M. Laverne Lattimore Ball before being named as one of ROSCC’s Interim Pastors in October 2019. Reverend Mae as fondly known by her ROSCC family and others has served ROSCC also, in many roles over the years as Ordained Reverend, Ministerial Assistant to Bishop Ball, Superintendent of Church School, Spiritual Advisor of the ROSCC Deaconess Ministry, Youth Pastor for seven years, Intercessory Prayer leader and Thursday Noon Day Bible Study Leader.
In December 2019, Reverend Belin was elected President of the Greater Central Jersey Clergy Association (GCJCA), a nondenominational faith-based leadership organization, whose mission Is to provide a positive impact in local communities and surrounding areas. She is a member of the National Council of Negro Women. over the years, she has been a member of many civic and community organizations within Somerset and Union Counties, volunteering her many talents and skills before stepping back to focus on family.
Having received her early education from the Plainfield Public School system. She furthered her education by attending Rutgers and Lincoln University where she received a Master's degree In Human Service and published her Master’s Project Thesis “A STAFF TRAINING INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR UNINSURED WOMEN”, which allowed her to combine her professional passion as Director of Health Education & Administration for Women’s Health & Counseling Center, with preaching and teaching the goodness of the gospel. She looks forward to the Fall 2023 publishing of her literary fiction “Fake Flowers, by IUniverse Publishing.
Called to serve in God’s house, she holds a certificate of completion in Old Testament Studies, General Bibles Studies, and Evangelism from Evangelical Bible Institute in Newark, NJ, a certificate of completion in Pastoral Theology and Hermeneutics from Metropolitan Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor of Arts in Ministry from Grace Hill Bible College in Jersey City, NJ. For her spiritual continued education training in ministry, she attended Joint College of Bishops-Cleveland, Ohio for Pastoral Training education, When God Sends Women, Master Class-Beyond the Stain Glass Ceiling, & Pastors Planning Workshop by Perfecting Network. She often refers to Dr. George O. McCalep, Jr., who says, “The Church must be seen as a live organism not organization”. Organization, order and processes are needed, but not overriding the plan of God. The church Is to be God led as a theocracy not democracy. She is presently in discussion with two seminaries for Fall 2023, admission.
A lifelong resident of Plainfield, Reverend Belin is the mother of an adult son Jeffrey LaMont Langston & daughter-in-love Crystal Hardie Langston, she is wonderfully blessed with one grandson Christopher James. Her fervent desire is to see all God’s people unconditionally loved, cared for & maturing In the Word of God. She loves reading books with entertaining titles, planning & decorating for events, gospel & jazz music, and eating out with close friends. One of Reverend Belin’s favorite scriptures is 1 John 3:2, “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he Is”.
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