Dr. Jasmin “Jazz” Sculark, The Daughter of Thunder, is a native of the Island of Trinidad and Tobago. Jasmin Sculark is Pastor of Victory Grace Center in Prince George’s County. Dr. Jazz previously served as the Senior Pastor of Jericho City of Praise in Landover, MD, and is the Founder and President of Dr. Jazz Ministries. She is nationally and internationally known as a Pastor, Teacher, Author, and Evangelist whom God has chosen to use to do mighty work in this 21st Century. Her preaching invitations include Shaw University, Howard University’s School of Divinity, Dillard University, and the Hampton Ministers’ Conference. She has preached in the United Kingdom, Nigeria, West Africa, the Bahamas, and her native, Trinidad and Tobago, to name just a few.
In the summer of 2013, she was invited to be a speaker for Bishop TD Jakes’ world-renowned Mega Fest Conference in Dallas, TX, and again at Woman Thou Art Loosed 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. One who “shows herself to be approved,” Dr. Jazz was licensed to preach the Gospel in 1992. Seven years later, in 1999, she was Ordained at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Columbus, Ohio. She is a graduate of the Practical Bible College in Vestal, NY, and the Washington Bible College in Lanham, MD. She received her Master’s in Theological Studies from the Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, and her Doctor of Ministry Degree from the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio.
Dr. Jazz is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including her nomination by the African American Pulpit Judson Press Publication as one of the “20 to Watch Young Preachers in the New Millennium”. In 2010, Dr. Jazz received the Gardner C. Taylor Distinguished Preaching Award, and was featured in the Gardner C. Taylor Distinguished Preaching Series. Dr. Jazz’s life goal and mission is to encourage, equip, and empower the world through the written and spoken Word. True to her namesake, “Daughter of Thunder,” Dr. Jazz’s preaching and teaching ministry makes a thunderous sound in the earth and in the minds and hearts of those who come in contact with her ministry.
