Annie Wingfield started the Faith and Prayer Training and Deliverance Ministries, now the Center of Refuge, 30 years ago
A local church honors the woman who founded their ministry and started various humanitarian initiatives.
Members of the Center of Refuge call Apostle Annie Wingfield a living legend. Wingfield started the Faith and Prayer Training and Deliverance Ministries 30 years ago and in honor of her 69th birthday, churches all over southwest Georgia have been honoring her all week.
Wingfield started a food bank, soup kitchen, clothing bank, summer reading program, a transitional house for women battling addiction, and a Christian Academy for grades K-12. Her daughter Dr. Gwendolyn Hope is now the church’s overseer, and Wingfield’s granddaughter Retha Malone is the senior pastor.
“She believed in 'love people.' It did not matter where you came from, who you were, what your address was. If she could help you that's what she did,” Hope said.
Wingfield was unable to speak with FOX 31 News due to medical conditions, but Hope says her legacy will live on.
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