Women's Empowerment Conference 2008
Dr. Keira Banks, Hostess

Dr. Keira Banks

Dr. Keira Banks is the Executive Pastor of Living Waters Christian Fellowship of Newport News, Virginia. Her ministry supports her husband, Bishop Steven W. Banks, Founder and Senior Pastor of Living Waters Christian Fellowship and Overseer of the Living Waters International Alliance (LWIA), a network of apostolically aligned churches and para-church ministries. Dr. Keira is a gifted and anointed prophetic teacher with profound insight into the Kingdom of God and its advancement in the earth.

She founded the Lily Housing Corporation in 2002, a transitional housing ministry established to assist working women and children with temporary housing and professional social services. In 2007 Lily Housing Corporation expanded internationally and established its first orphanage in Chennai, India. Dr. Keira is the publisher of The Lily Journal Magazine, a bi-annual publication dedicated to the recognition of women in Christian ministry. Dr. Keira is the founder and host of the Women’s Empowerment Conference, an annual gathering of women of the apostolic and prophetic dimensions. As a dynamic female leader with fierce prophetic anointing, Dr. Keira travels domestically and internationally to share the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.

She received a of Bachelor of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education from Virginia Union University (1988). Dr. Keira is also a 2007 graduate of Kingdom University, Dr. Cindy Trimm, Chancellor. Dr. Keira holds a Masters of Biblical Studies (MBS) and an earned Doctor of Ministry degree (D. Min.) from Friends International Christian University, of Merced, California.

A Word from Dr. Keira Banks!

Christian women are doing incredible things around the globe.  On every continent Spirit-empowered women are advancing the Kingdom of God in amazing and mind-bending ways.  As homemakers, executives, intercessors, ministers and faithful employee’s women are arising as a powerful prophetic force of reckoning. In The Book of Judges chapters Four and Five we find the accounts of two God appointed women, Deborah and Jael.   They were both daughters of the Most High God, but possessed distinctly different anointing and assignments.  Nevertheless, both Deborah and Jael are called with the same fierce empowerment to work together to exploit darkness and oppression wherever it is found. The marvelous truth is that both Deborah and Jael were called to destroy Sisera, the enemy of Israel.  Sisera is representative of oppression and defeat.  Both Deborah and Jael are each given a unique and strategic role in bringing down their enemy.  However, it is vitally important to understand that neither woman could accomplish the enemy’s defeat on their own.  They needed one another.  We discover in the text that what Deborah starts, Jael finishes, and what Deborah declares prophetically, Jael is able to manifest.  It is important to note that the two women were not in competition against one another since Deborah did not bring to the table what Jael could and vice versa.  The texts in The Book of Judges help us to understand that when women work in partnership one with another, we become unstoppable in the realm of the spirit.

In 2002, I founded the Lily Housing Corporation (LHC), a non-profit charity established to provide temporary housing for women and their children in transition.  Currently, we have one property in Newport News, Virginia while plans are underway to expand Lily Housing to a number of cities in the state of Virginia.  We are also very pleased to announce that Lily Housing has expanded internationally with the purchase of property in the city of Chennai, India where we will build a 4,000 square foot orphanage to assist children in transition and in need of the love of God.

Women of God, all around the globe, I cannot do this vision alone.  I need your help.  I need your Spirit-empowered prayers as well as your vital financial support.  God gave me a piece of this assignment to minister in practical ways to women in transition and to orphans internationally.  You have the remaining piece of the assignment in your hand and heart.  I need helping hands that are willing to liberally give on a consistent basis and I need willing hearts with a capacity for the nations - hearts that will connect with a vision greater than themselves. We are grateful for your prayers, encouragement, and continued support.  Together we will impact the world!

In His Service,