Support for single mums

Marcia Dixon charts the complicated history the black Pentecostal Church has had with lone parents 

Children raised by one parent is not uncommon in the black community or in black Pentecostal churches. It’s important to note that single female parents in black Pentecostal churches are fully functioning members – no matter their route to lone parenthood.

Single parents and their children are often viewed as the root of many societal ills, but it’s obvious from scripture that God has a special place in his heart for families where no father is present, as well as children who have no parents. This fact is confirmed in Psalm 68:5, which states: “A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.”