Brenda Gittens, is one who has accepted God’s call to minister songs of life, love, peace, joy, praise, worship, deliverance, encouragement, healing and restoration, to people of all walks of life.  Her singing and worship leading crosses cultural and denominational lines.  In 1994, she began as a singer on the Worship Team at a church and became a Worship Leader in 1995.  In 1999, she accepted a call directly from the Lord to be a “Worship Evangelist,” one who will go wherever the Lord sends and opens the door, to lead His people into powerful praise and far beyond that, into worship where there are no limits.  Over the past ten years, Brenda has gone and continues to go into various churches and ministries to minister in song and to lead Praise & Worship.  She has also been on staff at four churches, a student of the Worship Arts Conservatory, and regularly attended the International Worship Institute.  In 2005, God moved her into prophetic word, song, and worship.  To be promoted by the Lord, Brenda knows this.  “You have to go through and endure something.  It involves being broken and humbled, and you have to let Him bring you through it.”  During the same year, she began the devotional entitled, “Women Who Worship” (now called "The Simple Word") and in 2009 became a Devotional Author for Streaming Faith, the world's largest online Christian broadcasting portal.  One pastor spoke these words to describe her.  “She’s one who’s been raised up not to perform, but to lead His people into His praise, into His worship, and to be an encouragement to us all, to build up His people.”  Brenda is a member of Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Fairfield, CA where her pastor is Dr. Claybon Lea, Jr.

Born in San Francisco and the youngest of five, song and drama was a part of her upbringing.  For 30 years, her mother wrote and directed various productions including, "The Singing Cross" and "Church On Trial" at San Francisco Christian Center, the church where Brenda was born and raised.  Her gift, talent, and love for singing was discovered there as a child.  Bishop Donald E. Green who was Senior Pastor for 44 years, is her spiritual Dad in the ministry today.  She is definitely a product of the scripture, “Train up a child in the way they should go, and when they are older, they will not depart from it.”  Brenda also knows first hand that just because you grow up in the church, doesn't give you a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  “I thought just because I knew about the Lord and grew up in church, I could continue to live the way that I wanted to.  I thought I was safe from everything.”  She had to come to the place in her life, where she totally surrendered all to Jesus Christ.  Since that day, now as a Worship Leader, Psalmist, and a writer of devotions and songs, this is exactly what God has called her to do and she has a passion for it.  “My heart and life is totally dedicated to the Lord.  I can truly say that I know Him through relationship, not just about Him.  He mended my life and restored many things back to me.  Through Him and with His anointing, the songs and writings come from my heart with such joy!  It's real.  I want to let others know that God can take the impossible and make it possible.  He can bring hope to any hopeless situation.  What He’s done for me, He can do for them.”

Brenda has been blessed to share her ministry at churches, conferences, crusades, prisons, community events and outreaches around the Bay Area throughout California, and some parts of the United States.  She was a regular musical guest on “Coast To Coast,” which was aired in California and other states, and was also a member of the telecast's musical group, "The Friday Night Singers."  She has sung with many in the ministry of Praise & Worship.  God has opened doors for Brenda that she will never forget.  One was when she ministered in song with the Bay Area Billy Graham Crusade, and another was when she was asked to sing the song "Designer's Original" at an event and the special guest was the late Danniebelle Hall, the writer and artist who originally recorded the song.  "As a young girl, I would hold a hairbrush in my hand as my "microphone" to sing along with her songs.  As a grown woman, I will never forget the tears that came from Danniebelle's eyes and mine on that day, as I sang her song."  In 1998, Brenda was one of the winners in the National Talent Vocal Competition at the GMA Christian Artists Music Seminar in the Rockies, and a semi-finalist in Exalting Him! 2005, sponsored by Daywind Music Group and Trinity Broadcasting Network.  She has sung lead and background vocals on recordings and has recorded her own single, "I Come Before Your Throne."  Brenda resides in Northern California with her husband and son, who both support her faithfully in ministry.