Mrs. Regina Delora McCants

MCCANTS, Mrs. Regina Delora - Age 55, passed away Thursday, January 9, 2014 at her residence. Family hour 10:30 a.m. Saturday, January 18, 2014 at Bountiful Love Ministries, 3432 W. Pasadena Ave., with funeral service commencing at 11 a.m. Pastor Kevelin Jones, Host Pastor, Supt. James E. Walker, Jr., officiating. Family and friends will assemble at the church 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Mrs. McCants will lie in state in the Sanctuary of Faith Gospel Temple Church Of God In Christ, 1525 Kent St., and may be viewed from 2-8 p.m. Friday, January 17, 2014 with Memorial Service from 6-8 p.m. Missionary Regina Delora (Smedley) McCants was born on June 1, 1958 in Minneapolis, MN, to the late John Lee Smedley and Vergil Mae Smedley. The Smedley’s moved to Flint, MI in 1964; during this time, Missionary McCants attended Baker college majoring in medical transcription. She was also em¬ployed at the Flint Area Teachers Credit Union for many years. Missionary McCants married the late Deacon Duane McCants Sr., in 1979. Through this union, she met her current pastor, Supt. J. E. Walker, Jr. of Faith Gospel Temple COGIC. Missionary McCants ex-perienced the Lord working miracles in her life, soon after becoming a member of Faith Gospel Temple. Missionary McCants had trouble conceiving children, and the doctors told her she would not bear any children, but she believed in the power of prayer. Because she trusted the man of God and walked by faith, Missionary McCants was able to conceive and was blessed with a son, Duane A. McCants Jr. (Repete). Knowing the Lord had been good to her, Missionary McCants praised him with everything she had. She was an anointed songstress. She began singing at a very young age with her sister, Missionary DeVaughnia Brown. Through sickness and in health, Missionary McCants never missed an opportunity to use the gift God gave her. Missionary McCants was a hard worker in her church. Singing on the devotional team, singing in the choir, working in the women’s department (local, district and state), working in the kitchen (part of the Texas Style and Friday morning dinner crew), and her most favorite, President of the Sunshine Band. She had a love for the “little people.” Missionary McCants was determined to introduce them to Christ at an early age, through scriptures, speeches, plays and songs. In 2008 Missionary McCants was diagnosed with fourth stage cancer. Pastor Walker and the entire Faith Gospel Temple Church family went into consecration with her. Pastor Walker said “if Missionary McCants has cancer, we all have cancer”. Within two weeks, before the doctors performed any treatments, the Lord had removed cancer from the spine, the bones and the lungs. Missionary McCants lived her favorite scripture; Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path, Proverbs 3:5-6. She lived as Regina McCants, but she died as Regina Mc“CAN”. Showing that you CAN live a holy and separated life, free from sin no matter what the devil throws your way. JUST TRUST GOD! She leaves to cherish her memory: son, Duane (Emily) McCants; mother, Vergil Mae Smedley; sister, DeVaughnia Brown; brother, Curtis Smedley; 2 grand¬children, Alexis Ava McCants and Jacob Alexander McCants; a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Including special friend, Rose McGee. Missionary McCants was preceded in death by her husband, Duane McCants Sr.; father, John Lee Smedley; and grandmother, Thelma Stocker.

Mrs. Regina Delora McCants

June 1, 1958 - January 9, 2014