Minister Janet Curtis Ware is the wife of the late Mr. Michael Ware, formerly of Gainesville, GA. They have two children, Shance and LaDasia, and five wonderful grandchildren: David, Devon, Nicole, Nicholas, and Natalya. Minister Ware currently serves as the Pastor of the Mt. Nebo Community Baptist Church in Griffin, Georgia. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, her Master of Education from Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and her Specialist in Education from Georgia College and State University.

Pastor Ware received her call while yet in high school but did not accept it until she relocated to Maryland in 1993. As result of the move and being able to hear many anointed women of God preach and teach the Word, she was strengthened and enrolled in Lanham Bible Seminary in Maryland. She also enrolled in Luther Rice Seminary upon returning to Georgia.

The final nudge toward the spoken ministry came as a result of losing her mother, the late Mrs. Ruby Andrews Curtis, to cancer. Rather than this event drawing her away from God, it drew her closer to Him. The drawing was complete when she and her sisters were sorting through her mother’s belongings), and she came across her mom’s Bible.

Though her late mother was an avid Bible reader and teacher, the only words highlighted in her Bible were those found in 2 Timothy 4:7: I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Reading those words was the final turning point for Pastor Ware because she no longer fought for a way to persuade God the spoken ministry was not for her; rather, she yearned for the opportunity to stand as boldly and courageously has her mother had done. Pastor Ware Revised May 2010 realized that she had, indeed, seen a tremendous woman of God carry and live out His Word all of her life; one whose life had been the sermon. She joyfully accepted her call and gave her initial sermon in April 1999. She was ordained in December of the same year.

One of Pastor Ware’s favorite life verses is Philippians 3:13-14: Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”