About...
This book came from a desire to empower, uplift, and encourage someone else. Power to Transform is a type of devotional with a 21-day focus on helping the reader be empowered, uplifted, and encouraged. It is intended to help you, as the reader, be transformed. To transform is to change the nature, function, or disposition of. As you read the daily focus messages that follow, I hope that you will be empowered for the sake of purpose, and by the end of the 21 days, you will have acquired habits, strength, and a renewed mindset to embrace change and walk in it.
Dr. Cheryl R. Smith
This book is dedicated to the memory of one of my senior mentors, Overseer Mary Finnell. She believed in people being able to transform and was influential in helping me and others to tap into that power. Even in her absence, I am still inspired by her words of
encouragement and grateful for her push to be better and pursue more.
Dr. Cheryl Smith is a native of Baltimore, Maryland where she worked in the public school system for more than 25 years. She currently works as an Educational Implementation Consultant providing Professional development for Educators and School Administrators in various school districts across the country.
Dr. Smith is a life-long learner and continues to pursue education as well as supporting the education of others. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Sociology, a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology, a Masters Degree in Education, Doctorate Degree in Christian Education and is currently pursuing another Doctorate Degree in Educational Leadership and Supervision. Dr. Smith also has certification in Youth ministries from St Mary's Seminary and certification in Women's Leadership from Cornell University.
Dr. Smith, author of Pain with a Purpose, It's Ok to Breathe Again, and a collaborating author on an anthology entitled, When Women Speak. She has been in Christian ministry for 27 years. Her passion for ministry and her love for people have enabled her to consistently be a source of mentoring, development, encouragement, and strength to those she meets.
Cheryl
Smith