“I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness. I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols. Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.” Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants. Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the habitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains.– Isaiah 42:6-11
And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them.
I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them. They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, “You are our gods.” – Isaiah 42:16-17
About Chaplain Tejado Hanchell
Senior Chaplain, Forsyth Jail and Prison Ministries
Dr. Tejado Hanchell is a servant-leader. He has served in pastoral ministry for over 20 years, in addition to serving in various leadership roles in non-profit organizations. His ministry has afforded him the opportunity to speak at churches and conferences throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Africa and the Caribbean, including the country of his birth, The Bahamas, which is also is the base of his international ministry. He serves as the Senior Chaplain of where he oversees the chaplain team that provides ministry to the incarcerated men and women at the Forsyth County Jail and Forsyth Correctional Center in Winston-Salem, NC. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Morgan State University, where he graduated. He also received a Master of Science degree in Pastoral Counseling from Loyola College in Maryland and has earned a Ph. D in Organizational Leadership from Regent University where his research focus was on leadership succession. He is also the author of four books including his latest release Accelerate: Prayers That Produce Results. He and Dr. Victoria Hanchell are the proud parents of two amazing and gifted children, Zaria and Zion. (https://forsythjpm.org/leadership/)