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Sharron L. Calhoun
Pastor Sharron L. Calhoun was born in Washington, D.C. to Lazarus and Inez Jones. She was educated in the Prince George’s County Public School System in Maryland. She also took classes at the University of the District Columbia, and she is currently enrolled at the University of Maryland, Global Campus. She is married to Bishop Derek L. Calhoun, and they have four daughters and reside in Florida.
Over the last twenty-five years Pastor Sharron worked in both the public and private sectors. She spent several years working for the Federal Government first with the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Dept of State. After a brief stint with The Howard University Press. She continued her career suits in the medical profession. Sharron working for the Children’s National Medical Center and the Washington Hospital Center MedSTAR Shock Trauma Unit and concluded her secular career in private practice.
Amid this, Pastor Sharron volunteered her time mentoring freshman women on the campus of Howard University in the areas that we now call “life coaching”. She particularly honed this gift as she raised four girls and began to teach them these personal and professional skills. Over the course of the last twenty years, she has done seminars and creative “self- enhancement-shops” for private organizations, churches and nonprofits that focused on proper development of life skills in the space of women’s issues. Her success in these areas is rooted in the trappings of her own urban development being raised by her dad from the age of ten and facing all of life’s issues as a teenager without the influence of her mom.
She successfully matriculated through a myriad of issues that she now uses to develop a tangible framework for young women to not only survive but thrive mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. She believes that a women’s productivity and potential in life begins first with her ability to appreciate, embrace and understand her “self-worth”. “She must learn to love herself, before she can love life and the people in it.” The process of embracing who you are as a woman is being coined in a phrase and philosophy that she calls “U-shops”, workshops designed specifically to embrace the blessing of being “U”.
As founding first lady, for she assisted her husband for 16 years in the spiritual management and development of New Vision International Ministries. Pastor Sharron was also the progenitor of the women’s ministry of which she had leadership oversight but moreover, she facilitates and mentors a young women’s ministry from the ages of 21 through 34 called “Infusion”. New Vision International Ministries is a non-denominational, multi-ethnic Christian ministry with a regional membership from New York to New Haven of over 800 people and over 35 individual ministries that respond to the needs of its Fairfield and New Haven County constituents.
Today they are business partners in another venture called Scrambled Eggs Marriage Education which provides marriage education courses to premarital and newlywed couples. Most recently Lady Sharron became Pastor Sharron as she was elevated to the office of Pastor of Counseling as they continue to minister together. Through personal counseling, modeling ministry, “U-shops” and a passion for women she has mentored hundreds of women. She now uses her influence to create a platform for all women that she encounters nationally. She and her husband are a dynamic teaching duo. They have been speaking into the lives of couples in the areas of marriage and relationship for the past 20 years including institutions like Howard, and Yale Universities.
Over the last twenty-five years Pastor Sharron worked in both the public and private sectors. She spent several years working for the Federal Government first with the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Dept of State. After a brief stint with The Howard University Press. She continued her career suits in the medical profession. Sharron working for the Children’s National Medical Center and the Washington Hospital Center MedSTAR Shock Trauma Unit and concluded her secular career in private practice.
Amid this, Pastor Sharron volunteered her time mentoring freshman women on the campus of Howard University in the areas that we now call “life coaching”. She particularly honed this gift as she raised four girls and began to teach them these personal and professional skills. Over the course of the last twenty years, she has done seminars and creative “self- enhancement-shops” for private organizations, churches and nonprofits that focused on proper development of life skills in the space of women’s issues. Her success in these areas is rooted in the trappings of her own urban development being raised by her dad from the age of ten and facing all of life’s issues as a teenager without the influence of her mom.
She successfully matriculated through a myriad of issues that she now uses to develop a tangible framework for young women to not only survive but thrive mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. She believes that a women’s productivity and potential in life begins first with her ability to appreciate, embrace and understand her “self-worth”. “She must learn to love herself, before she can love life and the people in it.” The process of embracing who you are as a woman is being coined in a phrase and philosophy that she calls “U-shops”, workshops designed specifically to embrace the blessing of being “U”.
As founding first lady, for she assisted her husband for 16 years in the spiritual management and development of New Vision International Ministries. Pastor Sharron was also the progenitor of the women’s ministry of which she had leadership oversight but moreover, she facilitates and mentors a young women’s ministry from the ages of 21 through 34 called “Infusion”. New Vision International Ministries is a non-denominational, multi-ethnic Christian ministry with a regional membership from New York to New Haven of over 800 people and over 35 individual ministries that respond to the needs of its Fairfield and New Haven County constituents.
Today they are business partners in another venture called Scrambled Eggs Marriage Education which provides marriage education courses to premarital and newlywed couples. Most recently Lady Sharron became Pastor Sharron as she was elevated to the office of Pastor of Counseling as they continue to minister together. Through personal counseling, modeling ministry, “U-shops” and a passion for women she has mentored hundreds of women. She now uses her influence to create a platform for all women that she encounters nationally. She and her husband are a dynamic teaching duo. They have been speaking into the lives of couples in the areas of marriage and relationship for the past 20 years including institutions like Howard, and Yale Universities.
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