{"id":19,"date":"2026-03-12T18:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:43:08","slug":"1st-lady-johnnie-ellis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Co-Pastor &amp; First Lady Johnnie Ellis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5645-e1760308730926.jpeg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1564\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/?attachment_id=1564\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5645-e1760308730926.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1172,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_5645\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5645-e1760308730926-300x184.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5645-e1760308730926-1024x629.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1564\" src=\"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5645-e1760308730926-300x184.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5645-e1760308730926-300x184.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5645-e1760308730926-1024x629.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5645-e1760308730926-768x472.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5645-e1760308730926-1140x700.jpeg 1140w, http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5645-e1760308730926.jpeg 1172w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First Lady\u00a0Johnnie Ellis\u00a0was born on\u00a0December 27\u00a0to the late\u00a0Asst. Superintendent John H. Sargent\u00a0and\u00a0First Lady Bessie Sargent. She is the second oldest of five children.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of\u00a0Wilmer-Hutchins High School, she continued her education at\u00a0El Centro College\u00a0and\u00a0Cedar Valley College.<\/p>\n<p>Since\u00a0April 21, 1997, Lady Ellis has faithfully served alongside her husband,\u00a0Bishop Robert A. Ellis, in founding and leading\u00a0Pure Word Church, Inc.\u00a0Together, they have witnessed God\u2019s abundant blessings upon the ministry.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>Lady Ellis and Bishop Ellis have been married for\u00a0thirty-six years. They are the proud parents of one daughter,\u00a0Shanetta, and\u00a0son-in-law Courtney, and are blessed with\u00a0two grandsons, Anthony and Courtney, and\u00a0two granddaughters, Naomi and Jada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady\u00a0Johnnie Ellis\u00a0was born on\u00a0December 27\u00a0to the late\u00a0Asst. Superintendent John H. Sargent\u00a0and\u00a0First Lady Bessie Sargent. She is the second oldest of five children. A graduate of\u00a0Wilmer-Hutchins High School, she continued her education at\u00a0El Centro College\u00a0and\u00a0Cedar Valley College. Since\u00a0April 21, 1997, Lady Ellis has faithfully served alongside her husband,\u00a0Bishop Robert A. Ellis, in founding and leading\u00a0Pure Word Church, Inc.\u00a0Together, they have witnessed God\u2019s abundant blessings upon the ministry. Lady Ellis and Bishop Ellis have been married for\u00a0thirty-six years. They are the proud parents of one daughter,\u00a0Shanetta, and\u00a0son-in-law Courtney, and are blessed with\u00a0two grandsons, Anthony and Courtney, and\u00a0two granddaughters, Naomi and Jada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/purewordchurchlancaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}