Reverend Barbara A. Mitchell is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana. She was born June 23, 1959 to Bob Mitchell and Katie Flounder. She began her Christian journey when only five years old at the Mount Canaan Baptist Church (Shreveport, LA), under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Harry Blake (Vice-President-at-Large, National Baptist Convention). Early on in her life, Baptist elders recognized special gifts God had given this professed Christian. As a result of the elder’s observations,...