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E professionally for many years. Born location, she positions herself as a musical Levite, vangelist Myrna Summers is a called to be an instrument of God’s Word. More gospel icon who has performed specifically, she understands that “ministry of music” is in Washington D.C., she attend- es on presenting God’s word to His people in song. ed McKinley Tech High School and went on to matriculate at the Uni- more than a song or a performance; instead, it hing- Additionally, as it relates to music, she expresses her versity of Maryland and the Toutorsky Academy of belief and source of inspiration from Romans 12:2. Music. From a very early age, Evangelist Summers New International Version – “Do not conform to the pattern shared her God-given gift of music in services at of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your the Refreshing Spring Church of God in Christ mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what (COGIC) in Riverdale, Maryland. In the early 1960s, God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” she formed a group called the Refreshingnettes and they recorded “Pray Your Troubles/I’m Determined” for New Living Translation – “Don’t copy the behavior HOB Records. Her original composition “God Gave and customs of this world, but let God transform you Me a Song” and “Give Me Something to Hold on into a new person by changing the way you think. To” earned Grammy Award nominations. Evangelist Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, Summers has recorded on more than 50 albums. She which is good and pleasing and perfect.” has won numerous awards and was inducted into the Evangelist Summers cautions that by not following International Gospel Music Hall in 2009. In 2012, she the words of Paul, we become complacent, giving the received the National Convention of Gospel Choirs enemy access to come into our lives to wreak havoc and Choruses President’s Award. She is known for with the propensity to render us powerless if we do not her collaborations with the late Timothy Wright, the humble ourselves. She states that as long as we have Dallas Fort-Worth Mass Choir and Ambassadors for breath, we have a chance. Christ. She has performed in many venues including Madison Square Garden, the Apollo Theater, the Evangelist Summers believes as Christians, and par- Lincoln Center in New York and the Kennedy Center ticularly as members of any ministry, we are the only in Washington D.C. Jesus some people will ever see, so it is imperative that our inward spirit shows positive on the outside. The Evangelist Summers has held many Minister of Music key to this, according to her, comes to fruition by the positions during the span of her career. Currently as transformation of our minds, and by allowing God’s the Minister of Music at the Reid Temple Glenn Dale will to be done in our lives. www.reidtemple.org • 11 www.reidtemple.org • 11