MEET MS. BEVERLY

Beverly Taylor grew up in the Midwest and attended
Jacksonville Theological Seminary where she
received her Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies in
Christian Counseling.  Ms. Beverly travels throughout
the United States giving inspirational and
motivational talks and teaching the consequences of
premarital sexual activities to teen girls and young
adult females through the “Save Sex for Marriage”
campaign at schools, churches, libraries,
organizations and community centers.  Her
experiences taught her that before teen pregnancy
and sexually transmitted diseases could decline, the
attitudes of teens toward sex first had to change.  She
recognized that our youth needed to be properly
educated in order to make good, smart, and healthy
decisions.  Beverly had a desire to bring about that
change.  Her personal motto is:  Better informed
youth tend to make better decisions about their lives.

Sex and fornication are considered “taboo” subjects
that many parents find difficult to discuss with their
daughters, or daughters are uncomfortable to
communicate with their mothers.  Ms. Beverly is a
supporter to parents and teachers by helping to
educate teen girls and young adult females on this
theme.

Achievements:

• In 1997, J.U.M.P., Inc. (Just Using My Power) became a
  federal 501(c)(3) not for profit, abstinence-only, youth
  development empowerment program for middle and high
  school girls
  

• Guest appearances on television and radio programs
  

• Publisher and Editor of J.U.M.P. Publishing, which
  include the sale and distribution of books, videos,
  newsletters/brochures, T-Shirts, and other teen novelty
  and media items
  

• Founder of the R.A.D.A.R. Coalition:  Retain Abstain
  Detain And Remain (an alliance of dedicated speakers
  from the medical, health & fitness and clergy association
  providing valuable health information to the community)
  

• Creator and Author of The ChasteKeepers series:  a
  sequence of novels for teens and young adults,
  featuring contemporary literary genres such as drama,
  mystery, suspense, supernatural and romance
  

• Book signings, speaking engagements at bookclubs,
  schools, churches, organizations and special events
  

• Publisher of the TeenVoice Newsletter
  

• Creator of TeenChoice Productions that has produced
  teen-related documentary videos for PBS, churches and
  public-school use to include, “Teen Profiling,” “J.U.M.P.
  Against Tobacco,” and “Wait for Love”
  

• Founder of TeenSource, a compilation database of STD
  information, in conjunction with the Center for Disease
  Control and Prevention, and Grapevine Publications
  

• Member of Writers Guild of America
  

• Georgia School Age Care Association Enrichment
  Program for Middle School-Age Youth for the P.E.P.
  Program (Parenting through Education and Participation)
  

Committees/Partnerships:

• Children and Youth Coordinating Council on Sexual
  Abstinence Education
  

• Fulton County Tobacco Use Prevention Coalition
  

• Henry County Crisis Pregnancy Center
  

• Council on Drug and Alcohol Use Prevention
  

• Reading-At-Risk: Literacy in America
  

• Reading Is Fundamental
  

• SPRANS Grantees for the Federally Funded Abstinence
  Education Program
  

Ms. Beverly is a courageous, open, straight, candid, and
engaging speaker and hopes to be able to encourage and
inspire teen girls and young adult females to save sex for holy
matrimony and also to invigorate a passion for reading.