Pastor & Founding Visionary of Reaching The Remnant Ministries

A dynamic Ambassador of the Gospel, Dr. Wendy R. Coleman has preached and taught since July 1995, when she was licensed at the Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Tallahassee, Florida, by Pastor Craig P. Riley, Sr. She opened her home in January 1996, and founded This Blessed Place: For Women Only, a ministry aimed at discovering, discussing, and healing the special hurts of women. During the summer of 1996, New Anointing Performance Troupe toured the Florida-Alabama-Mississippi tri-state area with its first production, James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner. A drama ministry team founded by Dr. Coleman after the Lord encouraged her through a vision, New Anointing will resume touring soon. Both This Blessed Place and New Anointing Performance Troupe are under the auspices of Remnant Ministries (Ezra 9:8), a compilation of helping entities which is, in the Business of Blessing People.

On September 16, 2018, Pastor Coleman and the Reaching The Remnant Ministries family held the first worship service for God’s great work. The ministry has been commissioned by the Lord to do the work of Reaching, Reclaiming, and Restoring. Her former ministry included serving as Assistant Pastor at First Monumental Faith Ministries in Albany, Georgia, where Rev. Roosevelt Carter is Senior Pastor. One of the ministry’s outreaches, Crossroads Transitional Housing Program for Homeless Families, was founded under the Executive Directorship of Dr. Coleman. From 2012-2018, this powerful woman of God was honored to be pastor and servant-leader of First Congregational Christian Church, UCC, in Montgomery, Alabama. She is also an entrepreneur whose business Sweet, Sweet Spirit Design & Publication Company specializes in Creating Designs Worthy of Your Name. The company’s Windows of Worship Ministry Magazine premiered in Albany, Georgia, in February 2008 and will soon launch in Montgomery, Alabama.

A 1993 graduate of Alabama State University, Dr. Coleman returned to her alma mater and worked from 1996-1999. She was an Instructor of Theatre in the University’s Theatre Arts Program and served as the first faculty advisor to the Tribe of Judah Choir. She completed doctoral studies at Florida State University in 2001, earning a PhD. in Theatre and Dramaturgy and began a ten-year tenure as Director of Theatre and Associate Professor of Speech and Theatre at Albany State University in Georgia and as advisor to The Anointed ASU Gospel Choir. Dr. Coleman also had the honor of serving as president for The National Association of Dramatic & Speech Arts, Inc. (NADSA). From 2010 to 2018, she served as chair for the Department of Theatre Arts, following in the footsteps of her mentor, Dr. Tommie H. Stewart. Rev. Dr. Coleman currently serves as Dean for the College of Visual & Performing Arts at ASU.

A talented actress, singer, director, orator, and scholar, Dr. Coleman’s talent has made room for her in various venues. Her travels have afforded her the opportunity to perform in several states in the contiguous United States, as well as in Alaska and internationally in Muju-Chunbuk and Seoul, South Korea and Lagos,Nigeria.

Dr. Coleman is also a writer whose works cover a variety of subjects and encompass several genres. Some of them include The Man of God (Novel 2011), Born Again: The Rebirth of a Nation (Play – 1993), But Satin Sheets Slide: A Play About Relationships (2005), If You Live Long Enough (Play), We the People (Play), Africa To America (Play), In God’s House, Umuji’s Servant (Novel), Abundant & Clear: The Stories of Five Good Black Men. Dr. Coleman’s work as a writer has been featured in Essence Magazine [“Where the Heart Is,” July 1998], as well as in the journal Theatre Topics [“When Failure Works . . .” March 1998]. Articles highlighting her work at Albany State and in the community have been published in The Albany Herald, The Albany Journal, The Georgia Southwestern Newspaper, The Montgomery Advertiser, and The Montgomery-Tuskegee Times.

In 2006, Dr. Coleman was named one of Southwest Georgia’s 40 Under 40, which ranked her among the top 40 professionals under the age of 40 in the area. As a result of her writing gift, she was awarded $100,000 from the 2007 Bayer Dream Fund to write & tour This Is Our Story: Learning, Loving, and Living Well with Diabetes, a play based on her own diagnosis with diabetes. Her debut novel, The Man of God: A Story About Forgiveness, is currently available for purchase and has received rave reviews from all who’ve experienced it. In December 2018, New Anointing Performance Troupe debuted her second original play Let the Church Say . . . in Montgomery. The play will begin touring soon. Woman of God, What is Your Report? and Man of God: What is Your Report? is a collection of inspiring testimonies published in 2019 & 2020 respectively.

Dr. Coleman’s style of preaching incorporates the gifts that God has blessed her with, including singing,
teaching, and making the Word of God relevant to the struggles and triumphs of everyday life. Hers is a unique gift for which she gives God all the glory and credit and works to return it to Him by blessing His people. “I know to whom much is given, much is required. I’m just trying to fulfill the requirements,” is her lifelong mantra.