Regina J. Nevels is currently a full time Chaplain at Orlando Regional Medical Center a level one trauma hospital in Orlando, Florida. She has been employed there since December 2015. She is the founder and President of Mustardseed Generation Ministries a non-profit ministry where she has been called to raise leaders up out of the ashes. She teaches a spiritual transformation curriculum, provide leadership development, and equips, trains, and sends those out to serve in their ministerial capacity. Regina is committed to focusing on developing leaders. She and her husband started Mustard Generation Global Ministries where she presides as the Apostolic leader of the ministry. 

Regina was the Executive Assistant to the director of Faith Based and Community Affairs at the City of Detroit Mayor’s Office for almost 5 years. In this position, she was responsible for building and maintaining relationships with the faith-based community as well as the community at large. On behalf of the Mayor, she acted as the liaison between the Mayor’s office and the community. She assisted in building a strong ecumenical support base of over 300 clergy for the Mayor’s office agenda. Regina assisted in creating a City of Detroit Domestic Violence Initiative. She garnered support from the female clergy in the city of Detroit. She planned and implemented several roundtable discussions as well as hosting a domestic violence conference. She received training from several national and local domestic violence organizations. Also, in her position with the city of Detroit, Regina assisted with the development of a citywide effort to address the issues among the male population in the metropolitan Detroit Area. The initiative was called The City of Detroit Manpower Movement. She was able to assist and build partnerships with businesses leaders, clergy, city, and state public officials in order to address some of disparities men face.

Regina was the Regional Coordinator for the National Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She visited over 40 prisons in seven states setting up NAACP branches in the penal system. She also built a support base from city, state officials, and community organizations in each of the states she covered. Her most notable accomplishment was the ex-offender job fair in which she init0iated and implemented in Detroit. Through the relationships and support she established with business owners and other organizations; she hosted an ex-offender job fair. At her first job fair, she had over 50 business owners and over 1,000 ex-felons attend the fair with record amounts receiving employment and given a second chance. 

Her heart for the hurting led her to serve as a mentor, and minister in Vista Maria Girls home in Warren, Michigan for two and half years. She taught and loved on young girls who had been sexually, mentally abused, on drugs those who were and felt unwanted and loved by sharing the Love of God with them. Regina has also served on the Caregiver’s ministry of her former church for about 2 years where she ministered and prayed for those who were sick either mentally or physically or just in need of prayer and encouragement.  

The Lord took Regina on a healing journey over 19 years ago where He delivered her from alcohol, drugs, depression, self-hate, suicide, fear, and promiscuity. He showed her that no matter what she had done and had gone through that He loved her. He taught her to love herself and to trust Him and to be able to see herself the way He saw her, whole, healthy, beautiful, smart and a true woman of God. Through the journey she went on, He delivered her out of many bad situations and saved her life. She learned through the journey that the bad behavior had root to them. On Regina’s journey to healing, the Lord began to expose the lies that had been planted and began to uproot every one of them through His love for her. Through her pain and suffering, she now sees herself the way the Lord made her. She is now able to minister healing to the lives of those who are living in bondage through Jesus Christ. Regina is committed to serving the Lord. 

Regina graduated from Asbury Theological Seminary with a Master’s in Pastoral Counseling. She is the currently pursuing her Doctor of Ministry degree with a specialization in Discipleship at Liberty University through their Online program. Regina is married to Arnold Nevels, they have been married for 12 years. Regina and Arnold have three children and 6 grandchildren (Saria Joi deceased). Regina and her family are from Detroit, Michigan.  

Regina has actively been involved with youth ministry for over 20 years, New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church, Youth Minister in Detroit, Michigan. Antioch Ministries, in Detroit, Michigan where she and a group of leaders started the youth ministry. Blossom Harvest Church, Orlando, Florida where she served as Co-Pastor. She and her husband started a youth ministry with 3 children and grew to over 30 youths of the Haitian culture. She was responsible for developing, implementing, and initiating youth ministries withing several churches. She has always had a passion for teaching outside the box of regular Bible study lessons. She knew from her own experiences that youth and young adults needed to be taught real-life issues they currently faced including identity issues. She taught a three-part series on Identity at the House of Hope in Orlando, Florida. She realized the importance of this topic and how it can change the trajectory of the lives who are able to grasp the truth of who they are.