Jerel Bland

Jerel Paul Bland serves as the Lead Director of the Hope Church which focuses on student-centered impactful experiences, inner-city community needs, and venue space for positive driven events. After 25 years of ministry serving as a Lead Pastor, Youth Pastor, Family Director, and Chaplin, the Recording Artist and Author has found himself versatile and balanced in the task of sharing the Gospel. Along with his wife Rebekah, the father of 4 adult children, 2 teenagers, a son-in-law, and grandfather of 2, is now solely focused on using every resource, partnership, and skill that God has given, to do his part to share faith, hope, and love to whoever is willing to listen.