MsG*s LoungeChat with Dr. Kim Yancey James, Author/Advocate/Mentor/Singer

Dr. Kim Yancey James has earned a Master and Doctor of Divinity Degree.  She is also a Certified Social Worker with over 30 years of experience in the field of Social Work and Adult Protective Services.  She has performed in the Off-Broadway play, "Mama, I Want to Sing" and has written and directed, "We Love Gospel Music", which was produced by Dr. Yancey James and Phenician Sullivan.  She is a native of Hackensack, NJ and raised in Patterson, NJ. She is the founder and president of Women of Divine Destiny, Inc. (WODD, Inc.), where she seeks to address the needs of women in the church community through counseling, referral services, education and scholarship to nourish and empower them spiritually, physically, financially and emotionally. Dr. James is the Elect Lady, Director of Women's Ministries, and Executive Minister of Paradise Baptist Church in Newark, NJ., where her husband Bishop Jethro C. James, Jr. is the pastor.  She is a preacher, mother, grandmother.