Lori McKenney is a Preacher, Teacher, Praise Dancer, and Prayer Warrior. Prophetess Lori McKenney is a very passionate person when it comes to the people of God. She has encouraged people through the Word of God by reaching out to the destitute, the forgotten, and those looked over by society. Wherever she goes Prophetess words of encouragement bring forth a deliverance that transforms the lives of the people because of the anointing of God. She has a mandate on her life to preach the Word in season and out of season. God has anointed this woman of God to preach to the nations for this is the hour of promotion from God.

About the Book

During the month of March 2010, Dawn McCoy, author of Leadership Building Blocks will highlight great women in leadership during Women’s History Month.

LaTara: Thank you for allowing me to be a guest blogger today at Mom Unplugged. Today, in the Celebrate Women in Leadership series, I want to highlight my grandmother, Mrs. Eula Clotelle McCoy (pronounced “U-la” and “Clo-tell”).

Eula Clotelle McCoy, Exceptional mother, church and community leader

Mrs. Eula Clotelle McCoy (pronounced “U-la” and “Clo-tell”) was born in Abbeville, South Carolina on May 10, 1917. She is the fourth of sevenchildren of Rufus and Ethel Bradley Searles and was raised in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. In 1935, she graduated from Coatesville High School. A year later, she married the late Reverend William M. McCoy, Sr. and this union lasted for 63 years. She had three children—two sons, a doctor and a minister and a daughter, a special education teacher.

Who I’ve Become is NOT who I AM, is Sonya Visor’s first non-fiction book. Her passion is to minister to the people who hide behind masks. Sonya’s calling is to break and destroy the yokes of bondage, releasing the power of God into the lives of others by the preached Word and prayers of deliverance. When you can find the strength, to step into who you truly are; you can find the strength to BE THE (Tru U). TruU Ministries is the women’s ministry that God has charged her with to help other’s become free.

Sonya shares her heart with her husband, Pastor Tony Visor, who she calls her better half, for nineteen years. She and her husband have ministered effectively in the city of Racine together at NCC since 1999. Sonya is blessed to love two sons, Jason and Tony, Jr. Visit her online at sonyavisor.com.

Dwan Abrams is a full-time novelist, freelance editor, and publisher. She’s the best-selling author of My Mother’s Child (the sequel to Divorcing the Devil), Married Strangers, Divorcing the Devil, Only True Love Waits, and The Scream Within. She’s the founder, publisher, and editorial director of Nevaeh Publishing, LLC a small press independent publishing house. She’s currently signed to Urban Christian, an imprint of Urban Books/Kensington. Her sixth novel, the second book in the Married Series, is set to hit national bookshelves in 2011. Visit Dwan online at http://dwanabrams.com.

Dwan stops by Mom Unplugged today to tell us how she balances writing and being a wife and mom. Welcome Dwan!

Thanks for having me! Having a career and a family is like throwing many balls in the air and hoping that none of them hit the ground. On the rare occasion that a ball gets dropped, it’s best to pick it up and throw it back in the air instead of sulking about it.

About the Book

Josiah Tucker, the son of a substance dependent and neglectful mother, spent most of his childhood years in the custody of the State, living in foster homes throughout Atlanta, Georgia. At the age of fourteen, he was taken from  the foster family that he had grown to love, the Smiths, and returned to his negligent birth mother. Enduring the hardships faced while living with his birth mother JT manages to makes something of his life.  However, fifteen years after being taken from the Smiths and at the peak of success, he finds himself feeling empty and at his lowest.  When he decides to reconnect with the Smiths, JT finds his faith in God renewed and discovers his attraction to his foster sister.