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Taking Cities (About The Founder)

Thomas Beavers was born on May 22, 1982 to the parents of Floyd
Beavers and Agnes Chappell.  He graduated from Kentucky State
University in 2004 with a BS in Biology where he lettered on the KSU
Men’s Basketball Team from 2000-2004.  Among his other
accomplishments, he also served on the Student Government
Association as Mr. Kentucky State University in 2004.  Upon graduation
from KSU, he married his college sweet heart, Candice Lee Moore
Beavers, on March 19, 2005. He then graduated from Beeson Divinity
School of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama on May 26, 2007
and currently serves and exercises his gifts as the Assistant Pastor of
the New Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
where the Rev. Dr. Tommy C. Chappell is the Pastor.
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Thomas Beavers has also been the been the keynote speaker for a wide variety of forums
which include but are not limited to the following: the Alabama Democratic Convention, the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Kentucky State University "Sexual
Awareness Week," the University of Georgia Bulldogs football team, and many different
churches across the United States of America.  He also completed his first Christian rap
album entitled "Taking Cities" in 2005.  Among other responsibilities, Thomas Beavers is a
devoted husband and a father of five beautiful children: Zaneta, Dominique, Kennedi, Zoe,
and Micah; and one deceased daughter, Taylor.
Despite all of these accomplishments, the most important one is that Thomas Beavers
confessed Christ at the age of five.  Although this was a wonderful time in life, it was the
beginning of a hard road in which the devil would continuously try to kill, steal, and destroy
his future.  Although Thomas strayed away from God as a young teenager, God still had his
hand on this young man.  He rededicated his life to Christ at the age of 16 and received his
calling into the ministry at the age of 17.  This calling was not accepted until the age of 18
when Thomas could no longer run from God.  After realizing that his arms were too short to
box with God and his legs were not long enough to run from God.  Thomas says, “I never
just woke up and said that I wanted to preach; but now that I’m doing it, I can’t imagine my life
another way.  Preaching is not only my calling but it is my passion.”  
Above all of these things, Thomas Beavers is a humble servant of God who strives to let the
light of God inside of him out shine the light that man may place on him.  
“Brethren, I
count not myself to have apprehended:  but this one thing I do, forgetting those
things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I
press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
(Philippians 3: 13-14)

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