BIO:
Pauline is an author, writer, and former founding co-pastor of the Abundant Life Fellowship in New Waterford, Ohio. She has regularly counseled, taught and contributed into peoples’ lives during her times of ministry, and continues to care for her friends and family.
Pauline spent her early formative years growing up Amish. After her family left the Amish, her teen years she worked various jobs, including the Kresge’s store. She was a homecoming queen in her local high school.
Pauline’s professional career started in 1962 when she was contracted to work in the Central Intelligence Agency through the U.S. Department of State as Foreign Service Officer. Living in three countries on three continents (Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Miami, Florida; Athens, Greece, and Karachi, Pakistan), she performed secretarial work, financial budgets for the U.S. consulates and embassies she worked in, as well as intelligence and logistics. Using her talent with a camera, she was instructed to operate surveillance in urban areas at assigned posts. Pauline was evacuated, along with her two children during the India-Pakistani War of 1971 and returned to her consulate post after a cease-fire.
After Pauline and her husband Don resigned their contracts with the CIA and State Department, they came back stateside in Ohio to their home where Don got saved in the Pentecostal church. Soon after they were part of a church launch called New Life Tabernacle.
It was at this phase of life Pauline and Don pursued a calling to launch a church ministry in New Waterford, Ohio, called Abundant Life Fellowship, which grew over forty years and continues on to this day. During this time, Pauline earned two degrees through Vision International University; a BS in Theology and MS in Christian Education. She also did outreach ministry to prisons, hospitals, rest homes, youth, seminars on healing and temperaments. After a successful 27-year run, Don and Pauline gave the pastorship to an elder and moved to Florida to live out their later years.
Pauline is a widow from her marriage to Donald A. Stevenson when he passed away in 2017. They were married for 65 years. She has one son, Mark who resides in Canton, Ohio and one daughter, Kim Harris who resides in Kissimmee, Florida. She resides with Kim and her husband Martin. Pauline is grandmother and great-grandmother. She is an active member of. You can currently find her on social media.