Pastor Beverly R. Stephens
Beverly R. Stephens is the second of three children born to Robert and Prentis Free. She was born, raised and educated in Chicago, IL.
Beverly grew up in the church! She attended Bryman School, Inc., where she received her Medical Assistant Certification. She began working at The Doctors Emergency Office Centers immediately after receiving her certification. She continued to work as a Medical Assistant until she began her career as a Phlebotomist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in 1986. Beverly attended Olive Harvey College, where she received an Associate of Arts Degree while working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Today she works as a Clinical Research Data Manager 1 at the University of Chicago.
Beverly was ordained as an Evangelist on January 15, 2006 and ordained as a Pastor on October 26, 2014. Beverly is part of a book collaboration, “The Wife Factor”, and an entrepreneur of “My Best Kitchen”.
Beverly and her husband, Richard Stephens, III are the Pastors of Freedom Bible International Ministries. She believes in preaching, teaching and living the word of God. She loves to pray and she loves praise and worship.
She has a loving son, Charles and two (2) adorable grandsons, Kayden and Kaleb.
Beverly loves God with all her heart and she looks forward to all that He has in store for her and her family.
I appreciate all the teachers that God has put in my life, they helped pushed me to my purpose in God!
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About
Pastor Richard Stephens III
At the age of 7, I told my mother that I wanted to play the piano. One month later, I come home from school, and there is a piano sitting in our dining room. There were doubts from people that it was a waste of my mother’s money, but through lessons and chances from people and churches, God showed the adversary differently.
After years of playing in churches, and traveling around the country, God begin to speak to me through other people; telling me that, “You gone be a preacher.” I asked them what would make them say that. They said, “Because you have a love for people.” I didn’t pay much attention to it because I was doing my own thing. After years of being around a spiritual atmosphere, God was bringing things to life, still I fond myself still running the other way. But God has away of getting our attention so that we won’t continue down the road of destruction.
God called me to the ministry in 1991, licensed in 1993, ordained in 2001, an Assistant Pastor in 2001 for eight (8) years, which really taught me more on how to love God’s people, I got ordained as a Pastor on October 26, 2014. God has said, “Now is the time to give my people what I’ve given you; LOVE!
I thank God for my teachers and my inspires. Praise God for all that He is!