05/29/2026
It’s almost time! What do the kids say 6/7!!!!!!
At 24, I was the first woman to preach at my home church…it was founded by enslaved people. Then, I would go on to be the youngest person to pray on the House Floor, the youngest to lead our National Day of Prayer (it used to just be one speaker) & the first person to have an entirely digital worship experience that touched 4 million timelines.
The entire time this stuff was happening people were calling me pastor & I would flatly rebuke them - only to go on to become the first millennial woman in our region to start a church…by myself, with my own personal funds. I didn’t have a husband who was preaching & God led me to do it anyways. A solo lead of a church in the south…as a woman…a young woman…bold enough to start a church 🤣
And, while pastoring my own church, I would go on to become the first woman pastor on staff at Brown Baptist…
I’m always doing something nobody has ever done, before I realize nobody had ever done it…
So, when I was talking to Kirstin L. Cheers last week, she shook me.
My volunteers literally build a church every single week and we have done that for 8 years. So, when my pregnancy got complicated…I decided to go completely virtual. The team needed a break. I needed to heal. We all needed to recalibrate. I needed to make major changes to the team & reset expectations. It’s been 6 months.
And, Kirstin said, “you need to sit with how brave that is. Most people would be too afraid to do something so courageous and so thoughtful for the team.”
In that moment, I started laughing because Kia what have you done 🤣😩 what if nobody comes back 🫣
I snapped out of it because she was RIGHT & because when I started this church, I didn’t think I could get more than 15 people to join a church founded by a woman in a rocky first marriage and no building.
Now, I’m a woman in a healthy marriage with enough capital to buy buildings and we still haven’t found the right one - but, THAT is major.
The Well has done MAJOR things. We’ve bought cars for people. We’ve put people in homes. We’ve paid off medical debt. We’ve given seed money to start so many businesses for members. We have given scholarships & more. We have purchased thousands of dollars in groceries and gas over the years…for strangers who became members.
We have seen cancer dry up, neurological issues disappear, addictions cease, marriages mended, death predictions from doctors proved wrong, wombs open & so many reversals of diagnoses…
And, on June 7th at 10:30am, we’ll see what happens when a HYBRID church with 40% online membership returns to offering an in-person worship option.
If you haven’t been to church in a while, have a church but, want to encourage me as I return to in-person worship experiences because I’ve encouraged you over the years or need prayer, some oil or a new church to visit ((or you wanna see HD & Lilly 👀🤣)…I invite you to join us.
We are going to have food trucks & probably a bounce house for the kids - since never got her Easter egg hunt!
The series we are starting on June 7th is SUMMER LOVE! And, we are discussing relationships ❤️🙏🏽
Let’s go do something folks ain’t really seen before again 🙌🏽
1017 N Sanga - somebody should be cutting the grass as I type 😮💨
