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Introduction

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     ReCreations Ministries, Inc. was founded in 1986 by Dr. Jacqueline Pressey as a fitness company that had one stationary fitness facility and 6 mobile locations that served the community, churches, & Bell Atlantic locations by providing fitness classes, conferences, retreats, & workshops for many years. As ReCreations Ministries grew more into a thriving ministry other aspects of serving in ministry opened up towards outreach, preaching, teaching the word of God through providing pastoral/spiritual care through evangelistic outreach & hospital chaplaincy. This ministry has a love and a heart for soul winning and reaching the lost at all cost. ReCreations Ministries goals is to fulfill the great commission by following and living out loud the word of God that states: 

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And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways

and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house

may be filled. (Luke 14:23, KJV). 

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Please feel free to contact us if we can assist you in meeting & fulfilling your Kingdom assignment.

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A facilitator of His inspiration for the SOUL!

 

Dr. Jacqueline M. Pressey, 

Founding Apostle & Inspirational Author 

Biography​
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​           Dr. Pressey is a passionate physician & facilitator of His inspiration for the soul! Her lifelong scholarly interest & passion are spiritual wellness foci: purpose/meaning in life, beliefs, and connectedness to each other, and this world. She has worked in the health, fitness, and wellness industry for forty plus years. Currently, she is an Assistant Adjunct professor at University of Maryland Global Campus teaching the 1st Year Experience/Academic Success in Student Affairs. And formerly an adjunct professor at the College of Southern Maryland’s Wellness, Fitness, & Sport department located in La Plata, Maryland. Other former academic positions included: Professor/Academic advisor for Pre-Professional Physical Therapy & Sport Administration. She further held previous positions as a Achieving the Promise Faculty Advisor/Life Coach & the Wellness Coordinator/Adjunct Faculty for Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland as well as a fitness adjunct professor at American University in Washington, DC. During her 6 years tenure at Morgan State University’s, Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, located in Baltimore, Maryland, she also served as an Assistant Campus Chaplain, the Liturgical Dance Advisor, & sung in the Morgan State Choir for 4 1/2 years. Dr. Pressey currently sings in the Southern Maryland Regional Choir in Waldorf, Maryland. Her previous singing groups have included; The Morgan State Choir that also included numerous engagements with the Baltimore Symphony for 3 years & a PBS special as a final engagement with the MSU choir. And she further trained & sung with the National Philharmonic for 2 Summers (2015 & 2016).

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     Dr. Pressey continues to pastorally serve with over thirty plus years in ministerial leadership roles in campus ministry, multicultural community-based religious organizations. She was elevated in 2018, 2015, & ordained Elder in 2010. As she continues to pursue lifelong learning, stewarding her God given Apostolic gifting's, & inspirational authorship as a story catcher. She has also served 10 years as a Pastoral/Spiritual Care Hospital Chaplain and completed & graduated with her 3rd Clinical Pastoral Education units in April 2019 at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. She earned the name, "the singing chaplain," at Georgetown of which she loved using comforting songs as prayers for patients. She began her 1st 3 years of hospital chaplaincy at the Charles Regional Medical Center in LaPlata, MD.  Her monthly blogs were from (2020-2023) & “The Diary of a Hospital Chaplain,” will be her 4th book launch in 2024.

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