Jennifer Kostyal is the founder of Transformed By The Word Ministries, a national prison ministry for female inmates, as well as the founder of The House of Hope, a Christian led placement program. Jennifer is a national best-selling author of Finally Free, Taking Off The Robes, Finally Free Bible Study, and her latest release, Courageous Prayers for Women which contains the prayers she prayed to be healed of sexual abuse and breast cancer.

Jennifer was the Pastor to death row female inmates in North Carolina for two years. Her passion is to minister to those who are imprisoned behind either physical or spiritual walls. Jennifer is a dynamic speaker, teacher, and author that travels across the nation speaking in churches and to female inmates on how to be free from the past and walk in your God-given identity and destiny. She is a spiritual mother to hundreds of spiritual children who call her “Momma J.”

Jennifer and her husband, Dave, whom she affectionately calls her, “Big Daddy”, make their home in Wilmington, North Carolina.  She always says, “Dave is the best present Jesus has ever given her and she is so grateful for him as he was such a loving caregiver as she walked through breast cancer twice in the last four years. Jennifer has been completely healed of breast cancer and truly gives God the glory for all His abundant blessings in her life!