Rev. Dr. Carla T. Royster        

                Carla was born in Camden, NJ in 1965 to Ethel and the late Joseph Ralph Thomas.  After graduating from High School, Carla pursued her bachelors degree in education at  Morgan State University, in 1984. It was at Morgan State University under the influence of many bright and anointed Professors, that Carla began to realize her potential. Carla graduated from M.S.U. in 1988.

                While teaching high school for the past 20 years, Carla has continued to seek to educate herself in her calling.  Carla had the degree of Master of Art in Theology conferred upon her in 1996 by New Brunswick Theological Seminary,  followed by a Master’s of  Divinity in 2001 by Trinity Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Theology in 2003 by Masters International School Of Divinity.  Carla has used her training to help improve her preaching, teaching, and counseling anointing.

                 Following her preparation for the ministry,  Carla is now focusing her goals on her  career in education where she is currently pursuing her Masters In Educational Administration at Rider University.

                  Above her love for education, Carla possesses a love for her God, and a love for her family. Carla was blessed to be united in marriage in 1993, to Mark Royster.  This union helped her to grow educationally and spiritually in ways that she never imagined. After four years of marriage, God saw fit to add children to their lives, blessing them with two sons.

                After being ordained, and serving in The Ujima Christian Church in Ewing Twp., NJ under the pastorate of  Rev. Dr. John R. Norwood Jr. for 10 years, including time under his shepherd in the A.M.E. Church; Mark & Carla founded Blessed Redeemer Ministries in 1999.

                Blessed Redeemer began as a Bible study, and became an in- home church, and slowly progressed into a deliverance ministry. From its inception, Blessed Redeemer was under the guidance and support of  The Cherryville Baptist Church in Flemington NJ, Under Pastor Thomas Roberts where it was Baptized by Immersion, Ordained, and born again into The American Baptist Church Family. Blessed Redeemer has been favored to help plant and support other small ministries in need of a place to worship. Blessed Redeemer has also initiated "The About Hope Not Hatred Ministry" a ministry which provides compassion, love, counsel, prayer and Word to individuals who are in need of support as they seek deliverance from homosexuality.  

                 Carla is a Worshipper, who loves to worship and praise God.  Carla loves to teach, preach, and pray because she says that “she loves to hear the sound of God’s voice.”  After over 18 years in Ministry  Carla still testifies that it is all about GOD, testifying that her greatest accomplishment was the day that she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior..  

                 Although at times the tempest rages, and is determined to try to consume her, Carla’s testimony remains the same as the God who has faithfully kept her saying:                         

“Not that I  have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things, which are behind, and reaching forward to those things, which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”                                    

                                                                     Philippians 3:12 KJV