Left Top 2 GICCC Logo Greater Imani Middle Top Home Button Right of home button Facebook Button Space to right of facebook button Twitter Button Aptstle Right Top
Space below home button Space below facebook button Space below twitter button
 
Navigation Area Right rectangle 2
 
Left Rec 3 Maroon Rectangle Main Gold Area Right Rectangle1 Right Rectangle w drop shadow Right Rectangle 4
Left Rec 3 Maroon Rectangle Right Rectangle 2 Rectangle w drop shadow Richt rectangle 5
   

First Lady Linda AdkinsOur first lady is the youngest of eight children born to Henry and Rosie Kerr in Memphis, Tennessee. Linda demonstrated her academic abilities early in life securing honors and accolades from elementary through high school. She continued at the University of Memphis where she majored in Broadcast Journalism and earned membership in the prestigious Public Relations Society of America. She was later certified by the same organization as APR, one of only a few African Americans nationally. Linda graduated “cum laude”, thirteenth in a class of 1,200. She utilized her education and experience working in a local advertising agency to open Adkins & Associates, a public relations firm that specializes in trans-cultural and trans-linguistic services, assisting medical professionals in developing cultural language style, and rebus images for health education among the less educated.

Ever conscious of her role as the Apostle’s wife, Sister Adkins has been steadfastly by his side. In the first years of the ministry, it was First Lady Adkins that prepared the programs, assisted as secretary, ushered, sung in the choir, and even cleaned the church. Her model of leadership was, and still is, by example. Her commitment to the ministry continued when she opened the Carter G. Woodson Christian Academy. This multicultural day care received every honor imaginable from the State of Tennessee. The State Department of Human Services used Carter G. Woodson as a model for other day cares.

Continually by the side of her husband, First Lady Adkins has traveled to five of the seven continents, assisting in missions in Ghana, Senegal, The Gambia, and Benin. Fluent in French, she has at times served as interpreter for her husband, the Apostle. All the while, she manages to be the loving mother of three sons and a daughter. According to Apostle Adkins, “She is that part of me that I needed so much. All that I am not, she is. Whatever I have accomplished or become, she deserves much of the credit. God blessed me with a wife, lover, partner and friend.”