Apostle Dr. Cynthia King Bolden Gardner is a dedicated advocate in law and in the body of Christ. Born premature in 1955 and immediately declared as good as dead, she immersed herself in her Beloved Abba, Adonai Jehovah, as early as 18 months graced with Prophetic dreams and visions.
She grew up in a male dominated family and has been eminently successful in two male dominated professions, law and ministry which she attributes to the early masculine indoctrination.
She is accustomed to the Pauline brand adversity that accompanies effectual and fervent open doors. Fast forward 63 years, she is an accomplished scribe of 21 books in the past decade plus one bestseller in Christian Counseling, Social Issues and Religion.
Her passion is public speaking, writing, inventing and battling community and domestic violence, while mediating and drafting initiatives against pervasive societal ills. She is a celebrated semi-retired government and private sector attorney. The courtroom and pulpit are both arenas to propound righteousness and deliverance. Her lifelong pursuits are child advocate and youth mentor, champion of the homeless, addicted, disenfranchised and disadvantaged. She just returned from eight days preaching, affirming Apostles, dedicating churches, encouraging orphans and the imprisoned in Kenya. Dr. Gardner’s next stop is Punjab and South Africa.
Graduating from Georgetown Schools of Foreign Service,1978 and Law, 1981, Dr. Gardner is licensed in Ohio, California and Pennsylvania. She has founded 3 churches and presently serves as Presiding Bishop of New Mercy Seat Ministries, International, an EPIC Global Tier I Leader, Bishop and Legal Adviser for NRFOCC.
In the public sector, she worked for the US Dept of Justice Commercial Litigation Division, Small Business Administration and General Counsels Office of TVA. She has also worked for Jones. Day, Brown & Bain, Erie County as Child Counsel and San Diego County, where she was awarded ATTORNEY OF THE YEAR in 1999.
She is a member of Phi Alpha Theta, Alpha Sigma Nu , and Pi Sigma Alpha. At home she enjoys relaxing with her husband, Bennie and children which are 7 GERMAN Shepherds, 4 horses and a bull.
