Lisa Ryan

Background

She grew up in Visalia, California and studied communications.

Education

While co-hosting the weekly television show Guidelines Foreign Living in southern California in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ryan studied film acting with R.J. Adams at The Actors Workshop while pursuing an acting career.

Career

She has had a career as a television actress, host, reporter and producer. In media

She co-starred in Daughters of Privilege, an National Broadcasting Company "Movie of the Week", and held a feature role in Murder, She Wrote. Ryan appeared in the daytime dramas Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless.

Other television shows to her cr are Living the Life and Faith Café.

From 1996 to the summer of 2005, Ryan worked for The 700 Club, a daily live television broadcast where she has worked as a producer, co-host and feature reporter. In the fall of 2005, InTouch Ministries with Doctor Charles F. Stanley invited Lisa to join its daily radio and weekly television broadcasts as a co-host, which lasted until late 2006.

“EveryDay with Marcus & Lisa” addressed the current events and family issues. Interviewing authors, celebrities and recording artists.

Segments would also focus on cooking, home organization, technology, financial planning, gardening, decorating, and much more.

The program aired until April 24, 2009. Producing 279 original shows. In May 2009, Lisa accepted the director of Women's Ministry position at First Baptist Church of Atlanta under Doctor Charles Stanley.

As an author

Ryan wrote her first book, Foreign Such a Time as This, Your Identity, Purpose and Passion in 2001.

Used by teen and 20-something girls for personal devotions, group study, school curriculum and mentoring materials. Her second book, Generation Esther: Young Women Raised Up Foreign Such a Time as This, based on the woman in the Book of Esther, continued the theme of helping girls through their struggles in life as young women growing up into adulthood.

The book highlights several profiles of "modern day Esthers" including Rebecca Saint James, Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry. As a speaker

Ryan speaks at girls" and mom"s conferences such as Girls of Grace, Yada Yada, Accepted Girls, BABE, high school and college chapels.

Her speakings consist of words to "challenge this generation of women to be counter cultural and revolutionaries in their passion and purpose for God.".

Achievements

• She assumed the title of Mission California in 1982 after Debra Maffett was crowned Mission America. She then re-entered and won the Mission California title in 1985.

Connections

companion:

Esther