Gewanda Johnson Parker

Gewanda J. Parker is the founder and CEO of Hope and Healing Corporation,serving the needs of the marginalized of society locally and abroad to orphanages in Haiti and Africa. In 2003, she started an organization to help young girls and teens suffering with self-esteem and identity issues. Gewanda is a featured concert soloist, and her natural talent in music and praise and worship has offered her the opportunity to minister and travel singing throughout the US, Canada and Bahamas. Gewanda and Anchored was birthed out of these true authentic worship experiences. They completed their first live recording June 2010. Parker holds a Master of Divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary. Gewanda has served as a dynamic ministry leader in the areas of staff pastors, women's leader, administration, worship leader, small group facilitator, missions and pioneering of grass roots ministries. Within the context of sensitive areas, she has work with multiple multicultural and diversity assemblage of both professionals and laity groups in various settings. Most notable, in 2003, she was asked to speak to the highly Militant Religious Divides between the Protestants and Catholics in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Gewanda hosted a weekly radio broadcast called Message of Hope, which directed its content to reconciliation and healing of the family, community, spirit, soul, and mind.