Karen Cate is originally from Reidsville, NC. She was raised attending a small Methodist church in rural North Carolina. She received the Lord Jesus as Savior at the age of twelve. She has been actively involved in ministry since her teenage years. From 15 to 19 years of age, she was actively involved in the Lay Witness program of the United Methodist Church. While in college, she helped operate two coffee house ministries: Shekinah House and Genesis II. She has served in church music from childhood. Her first official position was as choir director of both the adult and youth choirs at her home church. Since then she has served as a praise and worship team member and worship leader at various other churches in North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Florida. From 1993-1996 she served as drama and worship director at Hosanna Christian Academy in Cleveland, Tennessee. From 1999 until 2010, Karen Cate served as chairman of the Malachi Project, a non-profit Christian Service organization headquartered in Cleveland TN. As chairman she and her husband Bob helped found Havenplace Community Youth Center (havenplace.info) a non-profit outreach to the youth and young adults of Cleveland, TN. She is a licensed minister with Redemption Ministerial Fellowship International, a ministry of Redemption World Outreach Center in Greenville, SC. She has a Master's degree in Church Music from Lee University. She writes worship music and is a published songwriter with Spirit Sound Music. She has released 2 worship CDs: Quiet Places in 2001 and Still Worthy in 2005.  She is currently working on two new albums which will be released in 2015.  She does worship team and leader training as well as music work shops and loves helping churches, musicians and worship leaders grow in their ministries and gifts. She helps lead the Taylor County Prayer Initiative. (taylorcountyprayer.org) She also ministers in other areas.  Check out her ministry web site www.fullyeffectivechristians.org for more information.

You may contact Karen at

karencate@catelandministries.org