The Story

"My heart for ministry is to create authentic spaces where people can encounter God through worship."

SHE'MYAH TAJUAN WILSON — who goes by Myah — was not accidentally placed in ministry. She was born into it. Raised in Jacksonville, Florida, by her mother Vermeshia Drayton-Clark, a minister in her own right, Myah entered the world surrounded by worship. She began singing at two years old. By eight, she was training alongside gospel artists in her mother's rehearsals. Her name carries its own theology: Shemyah means one who hears from God.

She attended arts-focused schools throughout childhood — dance, theater, piano, orchestra, voice, guitar. She was ministering at churches by twelve. At fifteen, she toured with her cousin Lawrence Flowers. Her formal leadership began at eighteen, simultaneously serving as Youth Worship Director at West Jacksonville COGIC and Worship Director at Christ Church Intown — where she navigated genuine cultural distance as the only Black female worship leader in a predominantly white congregation without fracturing the room.

The most formative season came in Texas. Relocated, without employment or family nearby, she entered what she calls a "valley" — a stripping that became a deepening. She surrendered fully, committed to prayer, fasting, and worship without the props of visibility. Within a month, provision began to move. That season forged a theology of dependence that now anchors everything she leads. It led her to Birmingham. She arrived prepared.