Craig C. Avents, II.

    Pastor Craig Cornell Avents II, was born to Dr. Craig and Karen Avents, Sr. on April 7, 1979 at Norfolk Community Hospital. He attended Portsmouth Public Schools, graduating from I. C. Norcom High School in 1996. He holds a B.S. Degree in Theology from Norfolk Theological Seminary and College and he has also studied in the field of Music Media at Norfolk State University.
    Rev. Avents, II is married to Lady Mona-Lisa Avents and two children are born to this union, Jalyn and Craig, III.
    God is already showing himself strong physically as well as spiritually in his life. It has been a busy, as well as a blessed life, for it is confirmed in the scripture, “to much is given, much is required.” God has touched so many lives through Rev. Avents, II, whether preaching, playing, singing, or directing, yet, there are still many more lives that will be touched through his great ministry.
   

Keisha Porter

    Rev. Keisha Gordon-Porter is a native of Chesapeake, Virginia, where she currently lives with her family. Evangelist Porter says “As I look back over my life, I thank God for my parents who knew the importance of Church”.
    The foundation of her ministry was laid at New Community Church of God in Christ under the leadership of Bishop Ted Thomas, where she was raised and was a member until the age of 18. At an early age she accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior. She is a living testimony of one who was "Trained up as a child in the way he should go: and when he(she) is old, he should not depart from it'.
    She then became a member of Friendship Baptist Church located in Norfolk, Virginia where Gregory Norris was the pastor in 1995. During this time God was preparing her for a higher calling. In 1997 she attended New Light Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) where she became a member in 1998 until the present. It is there in the year of 2002 where God "called" Keisha into the ministry. Prior to being called she became active in several ministries. She gives God, all the glory for what He has done in her life.
    She watched as God moved her from the door as an usher, to the choir and to then to the pulpit. Under a Spirit-led Pastor, Dr. Craig C Avents, Evangelist Porter is currently the Youth Pastor and a teacher of Sunday school and Bible Study to the youth at New Light Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Under the leadership of her pastor, she has completed studies in Homiletics, Theology and the Introduction to Hermeneutics by way of the New Light Training Center.
    As God continues to work in her life she believes that He (Jesus) must increase, but she must decrease. As Christ as her example she believes as Jesus spoke, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, "To preach the acceptable year of the Lord". (Luke 4:18,19).