OUR LEADERSHIP

REV. JANET BODDIE

SENIOR PASTOR

Rev. Janet Boddie is the Senior Pastor of Run with Endurance Ministries (RWEM). In 1984, Rev. Boddie had a Road to Damascus experience, which landed her at Full Gospel Assembly Church in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She discovered she was a teacher and eventually became involved with the children’s ministry. She later obtained an M.Div. from Ashland Theological Seminary. In 2011, she had Ordained a Conference Elder and received a charge from the late Bishop Louis Hunter to pastor St. Mark AME Zion Church in Dover, Ohio, where she served for three years. In 2016, she relocated to Colorado Springs, CO, where she served as Children’s Pastor of Springs Community Church until she returned to the Cleveland area in 2021. 

Rev. Boddie holds a Bachelor of Arts from Cleveland State University and practiced as a Licensed Social Worker for over twenty-one years. She founded “Walking Epistle Ministries, Inc., a ministry that focused on advancing the Kingdom of God through teaching and missionary endeavors. Over the years, she has conducted workshops at multiple churches throughout the Greater Cleveland area and other cities. She is enthusiastic about teaching the Word of God to anyone who will receive it and enjoys seeing people come to the Lord and grow in their faith.    

She and her husband, Sim Boddie, have been married for 27 years, together, they have five children and twelve beautiful grandchildren.

PASTOR MARJORIE BRYANT

PASTOR OF EVANGELISM

Marjorie Bryant is Pastor of Evangelism at Run with Endurance Ministries.   Having received Christ as her personal Savior in 1973, she began to seek the will of God for her life.   In the year 1980, Pastor Marge began to reach souls through a ten-minute radio broadcast, “The Promises of God,” in Cleveland, Ohio.  She was then lead to open a transitional house (1991-1996), with another sister called, “Joy House.”   They were able to disciple these women and their children to change their lives for good. 

Over the next few years, she participated in other outreach ministries, with City Mission, and Salvation Army.  She hosted several bible studies and workshops over those years, which lead her to return to school at the McCreary Center for African American Religious Studies where she earned a diploma.  Pastor Marge continued with her educational pursuits and has recently earned a Masters of Arts in Black Church Studies, from Ashland Theological Seminary.

Pastor Marge is mother of one daughter, two grandsons, and four great grandchildren.

Her Passion for Christ is still strong and wants other to know God can do anything but fail!