Mary Esther Reed was born on August 21, 1948, to the union of Annie L. Pate Delaney and Connie Reed in Sidon, Mississippi. Mary was baptized and accepted Christ at an early age. She attended the Old Original Missionary Baptist Church where she became an ordained minister and she also served as a member of the church's choir. Mary later joined Breakthrough Word Harvest Ministries where she served as an evangelist and prophetess on the ministers' board. Mary attended and graduated...

Katherine Sparks affectionately known as Pepper to family and friends, also known as Pupa to her four loving children, was born on June 12, 1953, in Friars Point Mississippi to Nettie Riley, who preceded her in death. In 1962, Katherine along with two of her siblings relocated to Chicago Illinois, to be raised by their aunt Elizabeth Lewis, who also preceded her in death. Katherine received her formal education in the Chicago Public School System. She met and married James Sparks in 1974,...

Odessa P. Jones was born May 24, 1947, in Chicago, IL. To Warren D. and Ruth Parks. Odessa was one of four children. Both her parents and two brothers, Chester Parks and Warren Jr. Parks, who preceded her in death. Odessa attended Wendell Phillips High School.  She also attended Columbia College where she studied Journalism and Photography.  As a child she dreamed of being a Foreign Correspondent. She married Herman Lee Jones Jr. in 1965 and two children were added to their...