Overseer Angela E. Giles is the eldest of three children born to Dr. Saundra K. Giles- Young. She is a native of Goulds, Florida having attended the public school system of Miami Dade County. (Goulds Elementary, Mays Jr. High and Miami Southridge Senior High Schools) Overseer Giles furthered her education by attending Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana.

 

In 1986, she received an A.S degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis in Penology and in 1988 she graduated with honors (Cum Laude ) receiving B. A. degrees’ in Political Science and Urban Studies. During her tenure at Grambling State University, she received various honors, to name a few, Student Government Association, Senator for the Sophomore and Junior Class’, Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, The National Deans List, A Presidential Scholar, The Baptist Student Union, and The Alpha and Omega Religious Organization.

 

It was during these years that Overseer Giles sold out completely to the Lord Jesus Christ and thus has “counted all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For whom I have suffered the loss for all things, and do count them but doing, that I may win Christ and be found in him, not having minds own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which in through the truth of Christ ,the righteousness which is of God by faith” (Phil. 3:8-9)

 

Overseer Giles’ spiritually formative years where nurtured under the pastoral care of Dr. James C. Wise of the Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church in Goulds, Florida.

 

In 1993, Overseer Giles became a licensed minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and in 1998, she was ordained and appointed as Assistant Pastor to the late Pastor Harriet Jones. In October of 2001, due to the failing health of the late Pastor Harriett Jones, she was appointed as the interim Pastor of Holy Ghost Tabernacle of Deliverance Ministries (HGT Ministries, Inc.) and after Pastor Jones’ transition, in July 2002, she was installed as the Senior Pastor. Presently she serves under the Apostolic covering of Her Grace, Apostle Jenette B. Stokes (El Shaddi United Ministries of Slidell, LA,).

 

Overseer Giles received ministerial credentials as an Overseer in the Lords church in 2009 and currently provides spiritual and ministerial coverings to five ministries.

 

She is the visionary of Nehemiah Missions providing recovery services to persons in territories that encounter tragedies as well as, local citizens who also experience the like. Nehemiah Missions has provided relief to victims of Hurricane Katrina and Wilma and to the country of Haiti after the devastation of their most recent earthquake. She is also the visionary of Kingdom Empowerment which facilitates the Ministerial Leadership Colloquium, aiding in the development and maturation of every tier of leadership within the body of Christ.

 

Overseer Giles serves in many community capacities: PACT, People Acting Together For Community Concern, The I Am Vision Initiative and for the past ten years has sponsored a community wide annual prayer gathering on the National Day of Prayer.

 

She is the mother of three daughters Shenac Dominque, Betsy Saria and Temple LaChelle.

 

She prays daily that her life will glorify God and make a difference in the earth. “The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth mine to hear as the learned.” Isaiah 50:4