Apostle I.V. Hilliard
Pastor Bridget Hilliard
Ira V. Hilliard, a native Houstonian, was called at the age of nine to preach God’s Word. Having waited one year so that his pastor would know he heard from God, Ira Hilliard preached his first sermon on a Mother’s Day night at the age of ten. He married the beautiful Bridget E. Harrison on October 4, 1975, who has co-labored with him in building a dynamic ministry that is recognized around the world.
This dynamic couple co-founded the outstanding New Light Christian Center Church (“One Church, Multiple locations”) in North, East, West, and South Houston; Beaumont and Austin, Texas. New Light Christian Center Church is not only recognized around the country as a Mega-Church but in September 2007 it was honored as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Churches in America.
This Mega-Church also has a nationwide television ministry and Credit Union.
In 1995, after a mandate from God many years prior, Apostle Hilliard started Church Development Strategies Conference. Thousands of Pastors and leaders come to Houston annually to sit at his feet to learn church strategies, growth and development principles. The conference, now branded as Strategies Conference, is recognized as one of the best conferences of its kind in the country.
After a strong witness from God in 2001, Apostle Hilliard developed an organization of Pastors who see him as a spiritual father or mentor. This organization is called the Association of Independent Ministries (A.I.M.). A.I.M. currently has 1,000 Pastors and is growing monthly.
A Pastor to Pastors and a man after God’s heart, Apostle Hilliard was confirmed as a Bishop in the Lord’s Church in February 2007.
Apostle I.V. Hilliard is an accomplished songwriter, prolific teacher and brilliant writer. He has been recognized for various scholarly honors and written numerous books to grow your faith, family, finances and ministry.
In January 2018 after 10 years of mentoring his daughter, Apostle Hilliard appointed his successor Dr. Irishea Hilliard as the Sr. Pastor of New Light Church. After 33 years of founding and pastoring New Light Church Apostle Hilliard and Pastor Bridget Hilliard have now fully embraced the Evangelical division of New Light.
Apostle Hilliard is committed to creating and cultivating an authentic church experience that glorifies God and exceeds all expectations. His unwavering compassion for people along with his faithfulness to build into God’s people, PURPOSE, POWER, and PRAISE will continue yielding great results in the Kingdom of God.
This dynamic couple co-founded the outstanding New Light Christian Center Church (“One Church, Multiple locations”) in North, East, West, and South Houston; Beaumont and Austin, Texas. New Light Christian Center Church is not only recognized around the country as a Mega-Church but in September 2007 it was honored as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Churches in America.
This Mega-Church also has a nationwide television ministry and Credit Union.
In 1995, after a mandate from God many years prior, Apostle Hilliard started Church Development Strategies Conference. Thousands of Pastors and leaders come to Houston annually to sit at his feet to learn church strategies, growth and development principles. The conference, now branded as Strategies Conference, is recognized as one of the best conferences of its kind in the country.
After a strong witness from God in 2001, Apostle Hilliard developed an organization of Pastors who see him as a spiritual father or mentor. This organization is called the Association of Independent Ministries (A.I.M.). A.I.M. currently has 1,000 Pastors and is growing monthly.
A Pastor to Pastors and a man after God’s heart, Apostle Hilliard was confirmed as a Bishop in the Lord’s Church in February 2007.
Apostle I.V. Hilliard is an accomplished songwriter, prolific teacher and brilliant writer. He has been recognized for various scholarly honors and written numerous books to grow your faith, family, finances and ministry.
In January 2018 after 10 years of mentoring his daughter, Apostle Hilliard appointed his successor Dr. Irishea Hilliard as the Sr. Pastor of New Light Church. After 33 years of founding and pastoring New Light Church Apostle Hilliard and Pastor Bridget Hilliard have now fully embraced the Evangelical division of New Light.
Apostle Hilliard is committed to creating and cultivating an authentic church experience that glorifies God and exceeds all expectations. His unwavering compassion for people along with his faithfulness to build into God’s people, PURPOSE, POWER, and PRAISE will continue yielding great results in the Kingdom of God.
Pastor Bridget Hilliard, a philanthropist, and a mother of three girls, knows firsthand that God’s Word will position anyone to win in life. She has made it her life’s mission to help other young women realize their potential in God and see their dreams come true.
With a special anointing and gift from God to pray for barren women, she stirs up God’s promise that He will make their womb fruitful by praying for women to conceive. Thousands of women have been blessed by her prayers and have conceived children, even though the medical establishments told them that they were infertile. Through faith and the power of prayer, there are babies all over the world living victorious lives, who were conceived by the catalyst of a prayer prayed by Pastor Bridget. Amazingly, most of these children are girls.
Pastor Bridget Hilliard is the co-founder of the dynamic New Light Christian Center Church in Houston, Texas. In 2018 the pastoral baton was passed to her middle daughter; Pastor Bridget began to walk more in her calling of mentoring girls ages 13 to 19. Pastor Bridget believes her greatest accomplishment in the earth is raising her three amazing daughters. With a passion for seeing every girl educated, empowered, and enlightened through exposure and excellence B’s Girls Foundation was founded on Pastor Bridget’s sixtieth birthday, she says it best when she says; “I’m loving my restructured life.”
Pastor Bridget is the author of several relevant and thought-provoking books including: “Wisdom for An Incredible Life – Lessons I Have Learned As A First Lady,” “My Strong Tower,” “What Does It Take To Win,” “The Will to Win,” “My Set Time for God’s Favor,” and her best-seller, the now 40th Edition “My Thoughts on Victorious Confessions.”
Recently, Pastor Bridget embraced social media to share her almost fifty years of sage pastoral wisdom, marital wisdom, motherhood wisdom and friendship wisdom through her new monthly show, B’s Girls Foundation WOW moments and WOW Connection show. She has found her niche of sharing wisdom on “How to Pray and Parent Your Children Through Every Season of Life” through social media. This newfound passion has led her to write a new book from those B’s Girls WOW Moments and WOW Connections. After four years and two months of sleep deprivation, Pastor Bridget says, “I feel like I felt when I was forty years old, I got my life back.” She will share her journey in her new book “How to Bounce Back from a Setback”
Among all the busyness, Pastor Bridget says, “I am blessed, all my needs are met personally. However, I want to have more resources to pour into B’s Girls Foundation, so I am going to Real Estate school and plan to have my license by mid-August 2024”. With a heart of a philanthropist all of Pastor Bridget’s literary and commission proceeds will go to B’s Girls Foundation. When asked what she wants her legacy in the earth to be when she goes to Heaven at 120 years old Pastor Bridget says “I want the final legacy of my life to be that I touched the lives of young ladies globally who are now Christian leaders, physicians, judges, attorneys, educators, wives, and mothers. My heart’s desire is to leave an endowment of $12,000,000.00 for B’s Girls Foundation to continue in the earth until Jesus comes.”
With a special anointing and gift from God to pray for barren women, she stirs up God’s promise that He will make their womb fruitful by praying for women to conceive. Thousands of women have been blessed by her prayers and have conceived children, even though the medical establishments told them that they were infertile. Through faith and the power of prayer, there are babies all over the world living victorious lives, who were conceived by the catalyst of a prayer prayed by Pastor Bridget. Amazingly, most of these children are girls.
Pastor Bridget Hilliard is the co-founder of the dynamic New Light Christian Center Church in Houston, Texas. In 2018 the pastoral baton was passed to her middle daughter; Pastor Bridget began to walk more in her calling of mentoring girls ages 13 to 19. Pastor Bridget believes her greatest accomplishment in the earth is raising her three amazing daughters. With a passion for seeing every girl educated, empowered, and enlightened through exposure and excellence B’s Girls Foundation was founded on Pastor Bridget’s sixtieth birthday, she says it best when she says; “I’m loving my restructured life.”
Pastor Bridget is the author of several relevant and thought-provoking books including: “Wisdom for An Incredible Life – Lessons I Have Learned As A First Lady,” “My Strong Tower,” “What Does It Take To Win,” “The Will to Win,” “My Set Time for God’s Favor,” and her best-seller, the now 40th Edition “My Thoughts on Victorious Confessions.”
Recently, Pastor Bridget embraced social media to share her almost fifty years of sage pastoral wisdom, marital wisdom, motherhood wisdom and friendship wisdom through her new monthly show, B’s Girls Foundation WOW moments and WOW Connection show. She has found her niche of sharing wisdom on “How to Pray and Parent Your Children Through Every Season of Life” through social media. This newfound passion has led her to write a new book from those B’s Girls WOW Moments and WOW Connections. After four years and two months of sleep deprivation, Pastor Bridget says, “I feel like I felt when I was forty years old, I got my life back.” She will share her journey in her new book “How to Bounce Back from a Setback”
Among all the busyness, Pastor Bridget says, “I am blessed, all my needs are met personally. However, I want to have more resources to pour into B’s Girls Foundation, so I am going to Real Estate school and plan to have my license by mid-August 2024”. With a heart of a philanthropist all of Pastor Bridget’s literary and commission proceeds will go to B’s Girls Foundation. When asked what she wants her legacy in the earth to be when she goes to Heaven at 120 years old Pastor Bridget says “I want the final legacy of my life to be that I touched the lives of young ladies globally who are now Christian leaders, physicians, judges, attorneys, educators, wives, and mothers. My heart’s desire is to leave an endowment of $12,000,000.00 for B’s Girls Foundation to continue in the earth until Jesus comes.”
Enjoying the Restructured Life
In this season of life Apostle and Pastor B are focusing their attention on their passion projects,
