Teacher. Author. Worship Leader. Christian Life Coach.

For more than 20 years, Nia S. Kelly has passionately devoted her life to helping others move beyond simply knowing about Jesus Christ into developing a transformative relationship with Him that changes how they believe, live, heal, worship, and walk in purpose.

As an experienced educator and Bible teacher, Nia has a gift for making biblical truth practical and understandable. Her desire is not simply for people to receive more information, but for truth to awaken something within them—a renewed hunger for God, a deeper understanding of His Word, and a willingness to allow Jesus to transform every area of their lives.

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As a worship leader, Nia carries that same passion into worship. She considers it an honor to help create spaces where people can turn their attention away from distractions and toward the presence of God, believing that genuine encounters with Jesus have the power to produce lasting change.

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But Nia does not teach transformation only from what she has studied.

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She teaches it from what she has lived.

Her book, Broken by Him: A Woman's Journey from Abuse to Healing, shares her deeply personal journey through years of abuse, depression, brokenness, repentance, and ultimately healing. Rather than presenting a story centered only upon what happened to her, Nia courageously explores what God revealed within her through the process.

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Her journey taught her that healing is not simply about becoming free from what others have done to us. Sometimes Jesus lovingly brings us face-to-face with what has been formed within us, what we have believed, what we have carried, and what we must surrender at His feet.

Those experiences profoundly shaped the heart behind Girlfriend Moment Ministries.

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Nia believes women need spaces where they can have honest conversations without remaining trapped in their circumstances. Through biblical teaching, writing, worship, coaching, mentoring, and transformational programs such as Kingdom Woman Academy™, she creates opportunities for Girlfriend Moments to become God Moments—places where conversation leads to Scripture, Scripture leads to truth, truth leads to surrender, and surrender produces transformation.

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At the heart of Nia's ministry is the conviction that our identity cannot ultimately be found in our personality, accomplishments, titles, relationships, wounds, failures, or even our calling. Every part of our lives must remain humbly submitted to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

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For Nia, ministry is also much bigger than a microphone, book, coaching program, or platform. Whether she is serving her family, teaching God's Word, leading worship, coaching women, or writing, she considers it a tremendous honor to reflect the glory of God through whatever He places within her hands.

Her desire is not simply for people to leave saying they were inspired by something she said.

She wants their encounter with truth to awaken a much more important question:

“Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
Acts 2:37 (KJV)

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And ultimately:

“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
Acts 16:30 (KJV)

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Because for Nia, everything eventually comes back to Jesus.

Her greatest desire is to help women know Him deeply, believe His Word completely, surrender to Him continually, experience His transforming power personally, and faithfully live the lives He has entrusted to them.

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From Nia's Heart

“Girlfriend, I do not believe God is merely interested in helping us become better versions of ourselves. He is calling us to surrender ourselves so completely to Jesus that His character can increasingly be formed within us. My prayer is that every Girlfriend Moment permits you to bring your real story to the table, open your Bible, encounter truth, and leave asking not simply, ‘What do I want God to change in my life?’ but, ‘Jesus, what are You asking to change in me?’”

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Welcome to Girlfriend Moment—where real conversations become opportunities for God Moments, and God Moments become transformed lives.