BIOGRAPHY
Rev.
Audra Singleton was born in Columbus County, North Carolina. Even
as a child she was very active in many church and social arenas
and had a strong desire to work in missions. She put herself through
college and graduated from East Carolina University with a B.S.
in English. She was a lead Mentor Teacher in the Pitt County School
System and in 1999 she was awarded the Channel 1 Network National
Teacher of the Year Award. She is twice listed as Who’s Who
among America’s teachers (1997, 2000) and in 2000 she was
awarded the North Carolina Principal Fellows Scholarship (class
7) to come out of the classroom and become a school administrator.
In 2002, she graduated from ECU again with a Masters degree in School
Administration. She also holds a Masters certification as a Curriculum
Instructional Specialist, licensed mentor, and accomplished graduate
studies in linguistics. She is a retired school administrator and
is presently enrolled in the Duke University Non-Profit Management program and pursuing her doctorial studies.
In 1988, she became one of the founding members
of Koinonia Christian Center Church in Greenville, NC, founded by
Bishop Rosie O'Neal. She has held numerous ministry assignments.
She served faithfully for 15 years.
Rev. Audra holds such honors as a veteran of the
U.S. Army for five years of service, including a tour of duty in
the first Persian Gulf War, Channel 1 Network National Teacher of
the Year Award, 1999, and the “Great Commission Award for
Entrepreneurship” by the Lydia Circle of Christian Business
and Professional Women of Detroit, MI, January, 2004. She has had
many interviews on TV and radio and she was featured in “Her”
Magazine, February, 2007. Rev. Audra strongly believes and teaches
that great leaders are great servers. She serves actively on the
mission field in Jamaica, West Indies, and in South Africa. She
has been married for twenty two years to her husband,
Pastor Joseph Martin Singleton.
The two of them share a
wonderful love life raising their two daughters and Pastoring Project Anna's Christian Fellowship, preaching and
teaching the Word of God, locally and internationally. Rev. Audra founded the "Christmas Everyday" Missions Outreach to Ghana, Togo, South Africa and beyond.
Her life is spent empowering the seed and
strengthening families! Her message of hope, healing and deliverance
is globally changing the lives of many. She is the founder and CEO
of Project Anna, Inc., a non-profit organization.Visit her website at
www.audrasingleton.org. Rev.Audra hails Project Anna, Inc. as
her gift back to God for bringing her out of the abuse and the
shame of her own childhood and empowering her to live her life to
the fullest to empower many others to overcome. One instrument of
this empowerment is her new book, “The Smile Within My Soul: Strength for Your Journey”
which she authored and published in December, 2006. In 2007, she
opened the first Food Pantry in Falkland, NC which provides hundreds
of families with food, personal care items, free medical screenings
and supplies. Rev. Audra’s exhortation to others is “If
you are going to do anything in life worthwhile, do something to
enhance the life of a child.”
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