When there is a need in Alliance, the Family Matters Resource Center steps up.
“I like to say that we offer services from the womb to the tomb,” Raymont Johnson told his fellow Alliance Rotary members during a luncheon meeting. “And when we identify a gap in service, we don’t sit back and say that someone should be doing something about it. We do something about it.”
Johnson and his wife, Brenda, are the force behind the Family Empowerment Ministries Inc., which they founded in 2007 while they were living in Maryland.
Raymont Johnson, a retired U.S. Air Force veteran and teacher, and Brenda, a music teacher and chef, relocated in 2014 to their hometown of Alliance.
“We came home to do the work that God has called us to do,” said Raymont Johnson, pastor of the Spirit of God Christian Center, which started as a space in the College Plaza shopping center. Over the last decade, it has expanded, with FEMI and the church now occupying the former First Presbyterian Church at 425 E. Market St. They can be reached at 330-913-7007.