As the first sustained ethnography of black American Apostolic Pentecostal women, this project makes an original contribution by situating its analysis within studies of black women's labor. Pentecostal women exert spiritual, mental, and physical energy in order to align theology, experience, and inner temperament. They extend internal religious understandings outward, shaping the substance and aesthetics of communal worship practices. Majority status and culturally specific gender expectations place women at the center of conversion rituals--spiritual labor that yields fiscal rewards, as church membership expands. As well, the church's formal organization relies on female majority involvement in auxiliary groups to maintain operating systems--everything from daily prayer services to long-term property acquisition projects. Scholars have yet to consider black religious women's efforts as labor. This study of a New York-based denomination disrupts conventional notions of worker and provider and extends labor scholarship by arguing black women's work in spiritual realms is as significant, labor intensive, and critical to personhood, family, and community as wage work; work within the family and home; and community service work. Integrating spiritual, material, social, and structural spheres of religious women's work, I highlight the extent of black women's labor in defining and maintaining a self-conscious religious black female personhood.