The Women’s Home and Overseas Missionary Society was not officially organized as a national organization until 1880, but there were local and regional women’s organizations in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church that antedated the present organization. According to A Bicentennial Commemorative History, 1972-1996 by Bishop J. Clinton Hoggard, the women of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church shared the vision of spreading the Gospel of Christianity. They used their energies and resources to support the church in this effort.

The purpose of the Women’s Home and Overseas Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is to:

Promote growth in the knowledge and understanding of God and His plan of redemption for the world, as revealed through Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit;
Teach the concepts of Christian missions and provide experiences for participation in mission work and its ministries;
Exemplify the principles of Christian living and to win others to Christ;
Promote the cause of World Evangelism; and
Serve as a financial support system to under gird the world mission outreach of the A.M.E. Zion Church at home and overseas, to the end that, through the power of the Holy Spirit; Christ is exalted and God is glorified.

Mrs. Dorothy McLean
President
dorothymclean02@yahoo.com

Mrs. Cynthia Mosley
YAMS Coordinator
cynthmsly@yahoo.com

Mrs. Brittany Davis
Secretary of Youth Society
Bmcmillian40@gmail.com

Ms. L’Keisha Black
Superintendent of Buds of Promise
lblack428@gmail.com

Mrs. Doretha Maxwell
Health Care Coordinator
dmaxw@capefearvalley.com

Mrs. Gwendolyn McDonald
Bureau of Supply
gwenghm@yahoo.com

Ms. Nellie Smith
Chairman of Life Members
snellie40@yahoo.com

Mrs. Hazel G. Stubbs
Director of Missionary Education

Mrs. Esmeralda Robinson
2nd Mile Coordinator & Penny Brigade Coordinator
kiratwan@aol.com