Ieshia Monique Farmer was born and raised in Sumter, SC.

She is the youngest of four children, raised by a

dedicated, single mother. Her father was not involved in
her life after her parents split up. This is one main reason
that Ieshia has always believed that led to a lot of

unconscious mistakes that she made in her adult life.

Ieshia attended the public schools of Sumter County, and
graduated from Sumter High School in 2001. She
graduated from South Carolina State University with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 2005. She credits the
development of her leadership skills, confidence, and
teamwork mindset to playing sports at an early age, and
as a student leader during her tenure at SCSU. Becoming
heavily involved in school became her coping mechanism
for what she was missing in her incomplete family puzzle.
Two days after graduating, Ieshia relocated to West Palm
Beach, Florida to begin her teaching career. While in WPB,
she believed that she had made a major decision to move
without seeking God's approval. She immediately returned
home to Sumter, SC. Ieshia began teaching middle level
English Language Arts in the Sumter School District in
2006. While teaching in Sumter, she was appointed to
become something that she thought she had always
desired to become, head basketball coach, as a result of
her reverence and admiration of NCAA All Time Most Wins
Coach, Pat Summit. She received awards and accolades
for her students performing so well on the State
Standardized Test. Everything was going well for her
career. In all of that, she still felt incomplete, and she
believed that God saw her as being ungrateful. It was then
that she realized that she was deeply depressed. She
believed that she just needed "newness" in her life, so, in
2009, she took a great leap of faith, quit her job, relocated
to Atlanta, Georgia, and enrolled in the Atlanta Institute of
Aesthetics. She decided that she wanted to open her own
spa. While in Atlanta, however, the greatest lessons and
answers that she was seeking about her life unknowingly
awaited her. While attending New Birth Missionary Baptist
Church one Tuesday evening, Ieshia received a word that

began the transformation of her spiritual life. Bishop

Eddie Long was speaking about Abraham's journey. He
talked about how God specifically told Abraham to leave
everything that was familiar, and go to the place where He
showed him. Abraham was disobedient and decided to
bring some of his relatives. This caused great delay and
strife in Abraham's life. Bishop then posed the question,
"How many of you are still carrying baggage from your
daddy's house?" That message opened her eyes to realize
that her feelings of incompleteness, being emotionally
numb, etc. were all linked to the fact that she had been
severely affected by her father's absence. This was the
beginning of a spiritual awakening in Ieshia. Atlanta
showed her great trials and tribulations, from being
excused from school because she could no longer afford to
pay her tuition, to having her car repossessed because
she could no longer afford the payments, to finally
realizing that the man she loved since college didn't feel
the same way about her. During all of this, she knew that
God had a plan. Her spiritual awakening was happening in
the most uncomfortable time of her life. One Sunday, she
was led to go to the altar for prayer. As she left the altar, a
woman came to her and prophesied that she would be a
great leader one day. She told her that it would happen in
a way she would never have expected, but she always
desired. Then, she told her to keep smiling and presenting
herself in a decent manner because that would be the way
that God would draw people to her. Ieshia couldn't see it
because she was so focused on her bad situation. Ieshia
finally returned home in July 2010. She was hired to teach
on the charter school level in Lee County. She is currently
the Assistant Administrator at the newly established
Ragin Preparatory Christian Academy in Sumter. She is a
firm believer that God is faithful. She is a member of

Kingdom M-Pact Worship Center in Sumter, under the

leadership of Pastor Linda Speed. She serves on the
"Kingdom Voices Praise Team. It has always been her
desire to work within the community, but she never
expected to be doing so in her hometown. God used her
experiences in her private vow of purity since her
adolescent years to give her a platform to help minister to
young women. She has a heart and passion for helping
adolescent girls grow into women who love God and
respect themselves. She is the Group Leader of Pinky
Promise Sumter, an extension of the worldwide movement
founded by Heather Lindsey. Her current project, "Saving
Myself" is a program designed for young ladies, ages 1017 to learn and understand the benefits of abstinence,
and grow in their spiritual walk. She is also the Assistant
Secretary of the Sumter Branch of the NAACP, and in
December of 2014, she was crowned as Ms. Sumter Plus
America. She will compete in the Miss South Carolina Plus
America Pageant in May. God is faithful! Her favorite
passage of scripture is Deuteronomy 28:1-14, in which
God makes His promises known to His people, if they are
faithful.

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