LADIES LOVING NASHVILLE FOUNDERS
LADIES LOVING NASHVILLE FOUNDERS
Candy Christmas, The Bridge Ministry
Candy Hemphill Christmas was born "into a record deal" as she would say, and began traveling with her parents, Joel and LaBreeska Hemphill, along with her two brothers as apart of the "Singing Hemphills" at the age of thirteen. Throughout her musical career, Candy has found success though many musical avenues including her solo career, traveling with her trio "Heirloom", singing on the Gaither Homecoming video series and concert tours, as well as being a gifted song writer. In 2004, after sinking into a deep depression, Candy began feeding a few homeless individuals with a pot of jambalya and found a new sense of direction and fulfillment. As she began to tell her friends about what the Lord was doing under a bridge and as the word spread amongst the homeless, The Bridge Ministry was born. Through her organization, Candy is now able to serve 36,000 meals a year to the homeless and poor of Nashville, as well as distribute 720,000 pounds of groceries a year to meet the weekly needs of families. Candy will tell you that since she began focusing on others, she was able to "give" her way out of depression, and works tirelessly to share the hope of Jesus Christ. Candy attends The Resting Place church which was founded by her husband, Rev. Kent Christmas, in 2008. Together, Kent and Candy, have three children and two grandsons.
Debbie Winans Lowe is the tenth child of the Grammy award winning Gospel music family The Winans.
Whether opening for Whitney Houston on the BodyGuard Tour, singing on Broadway, or appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Debbie has remained true to her Christian heritage.
Her passion for music coincides with her desire to see people truly impacted with the Gospel of Jesus. Debbie’s most recent charge by God is faithfully serving alongside her husband James Lowe, senior pastor at Bethel World Outreach Church in Brentwood, TN.
Pastor James & Debbie reside in the Nashville area and have three sons.
Debbie Lowe, Bethel World Outreach Church
Jillian Chambers, Oasis Church
Kitty Hockett, Born Again Church
Joan Evrist, New Song Christian Fellowship
Jillian Chambers is passionate about helping others discover their purpose. As a certified behavioral consultant and licensed “Path” life coach, she travels and speaks world-wide to multi-racial and multi-generational audiences. Helping people understand their value and training them to make strong life choices is essential to her own personal mission. With singing, modeling, and television in her background, she communicates with humor as well as authentic love for her audience.
Jillian has been instrumental in life coaching people in all walks of life- from Businessmen and women to former Miss Americas, with several mainstream and Christian music artists as well. She has spent the last two decades devoting her life to investing her time helping others find joy in living a purpose driven life.
Connecting people to their Creator, so they can discover the value of their uniqueness, has produced tremendous change in the way men and women of all generations value themselves. Thousands of hearts have been touched and transformed through the voice of Jillian Chambers. Jillian currently co Pastors alongside her husband, Danny Chambers, at Oasis Church in Nashville, TN. She is the proud mother and life coach of 5 amazing children.
Elder Kiwanis Hockett, affectionately known as Sis. Kitty, is the Associate Pastor of Born Again Church and Christian Outreach Ministries in Nashville, TN. She has served in ministry impacting the lives of women for over 30 years. She also has a heart for young people and is known as a committed, compassionate and perceptive counselor, mentor and "spiritual mother" to many.
In 1982, she founded Fashioned In His Image (FIHI) as the women’s ministry of Born Again Church. The ministry was birthed out of a need to touch the lives of women on a natural and spiritual level. In order to meet the growing demands of women in the community, Fashioned In His Image Total Women’s Center was incorporated as a non-profit entity in December of 2000. The organization now operates out of an 18,000 square foot facility. Through both units, outreach services are offered to thousands of women and families through all parts of Nashville/Davidson County, including college campuses and surrounding counties in Tennessee. Also, Sis. Kitty co-authored the book, The Seduction of the Senses, published in 2003 by FIHI, Inc. The book powerfully yet practically deals with relational issues, including the devastating consequences of sexual intimacy outside the marriage covenant.
Joan Evrist serves as the Pastor of Women’s Ministries at New Song Christian Fellowship, a Foursquare church in Brentwood, Tennessee. It is her ardent desire to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to lost, broken, and hurting women. With disarming humor and real world honesty, she brings a message of Christ’s transformational love and freedom to women of all ages and stages of life. Most recently, Joan is serving the Nashville Women’s Prison where she leads a worship service and is teaching a women’s domestic violence class. Joan is also involved in the city-wide movement, Love Nashville, which is designed to bring hope to women in desperate and at-risk circumstances. It is Joan’s vision for every woman to know her true value and identity in Christ.
Joan has been married for 33 years to Dale Evrist, Senior Pastor of New Song. Joan and Dale have also served in full-time ministry together for 33 years in Southern California and in the Nashville area of Tennessee. They have two adult children: Janelle, who is married with a four-year old son; and Joel, who is married with a one-year old daughter. Both are actively serving the Lord in ministry alongside Joan and Dale at New Song.
MISSION, VISION & VALUES
OUR MISSION: Changing a city one life at a time by putting love into action.
OUR VISION: Unifying the body of Christ
OUR VALUES: Faith & friendship
We extend our hand to all the Leading Ladies who willingly carry the cross and the burden to spead the gospel, and see hope restored to the women of Nashville.
Come join the movement!
