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Our vision is to create a community where broken lives are transformed by the love of Christ. We aspire to empower individuals to overcome their past, embrace their God-given purpose, and build strong spiritual foundations that impact families and communities for generations.
Anita Ayers Ministries exists to bring healing and restoration to individuals struggling with the effects of abuse, addiction, and emotional pain. Through Christ-centered teaching, compassionate outreach, and a commitment to spiritual growth, we aim to guide people toward total healing of heart, mind, soul, and body.
Anita Ayers’ journey is a powerful story of resilience, redemption, and God’s grace.
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in January of 1958, Anita endured unimaginable hardships during her early years. Her mother, Delores Hodge, descended from a long line of Gospel preachers, but the man she thought was her father, Duke Ayers, was raised in a tar paper shack and carried the scars of his own broken past. Tragically, her family suffered years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of the man that was the father of her siblings. In 1968, when Anita was just ten years old, their abuser finally abandoned the family, leaving her mother to raise seven children on her own.
At age 13, Anita left home and became immersed in the drug culture, hitchhiking across the United States to places like San Antonio, Texas, and Costa Mesa, California, before eventually returning to Indiana. At 18, she married and became pregnant with her first son, Joshua. Though she tried to leave the drug culture behind her for the sake of her child, her marriage began to crumble within two years. From ages 20 to 25, Anita moved from place to place, using drugs and alcohol to numb her emotional pain.
In August of 1983, Anita reached a breaking point. After stumbling into her townhouse in the early morning hours and seeing her reflection in the mirror—a hollow shell of a person staring back at her—she cried out to God in desperation: “God, if you will help me get out of this mess I’ve made and get me on track, I will serve you for the rest of my life.” That moment marked the beginning of a transformation. Within weeks, Anita moved into a small apartment with her son and began attending church. She stopped using drugs and started rebuilding her life.
In 1987, Anita met Al Dix—a bar mitzvah Jewish man from Queens, New York—and they married in February of 1988. Together they raised Joshua along with Al’s daughter Maggie and their son Adam while building a successful wholesale/retail auto sales business. To overcome the extreme mental and emotional anguish from her past, Anita sought out teachings from strong men and women of God. Through much prayer and determination, she overcame her broken past and built a strong family with a firm spiritual foundation.
In 1998, Anita began teaching Bible studies at a mission in southern Indiana. After moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, in 2004, she volunteered in inner-city ministry outreach. By 2006, she wrote and published an autobiography titled Jesus Loves Me, which chronicled her childhood experiences. That same year she founded Anita Ayers Ministries and launched a website to expand her outreach efforts. In August of 2009, she leased a storefront location for “Anita Ayers Ministries,” which she called “church unusual.” For nearly eight years, this ministry served individuals struggling with addiction and the effects of abusive, dysfunctional families.
In 2017, due to family health issues involving her husband, mother-in-law, and the care of a great-grandchild, Anita stepped away from active ministry to focus on caring for her family. She entrusted the ministry’s work to Amy McCaully of “Miss Amy Ministries.” In 2019, Anita moved with her family near Nashville to be closer to her daughter Maggie before settling west of Chattanooga near her oldest son.
Now in 2024—after years of personal growth and prayer—Anita feels led by God to step back into ministry once again. Deeply grateful for the anointed teachings that helped guide her out of darkness into God’s brilliant light, Anita is determined to spend the rest of her life helping others find healing and restoration through Christ. Her mission remains clear: to pull people onto the mercy seat of the Lord so they can experience total healing of heart, mind, soul, and body. As she begins this new chapter in ministry, Anita is also working on a sequel to Jesus Loves Me while continuing to reach out to those who are hurting and troubled.
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Oh, thank you sister Anita. I felt compelled to read your book to the end until I was done. And as I did I felt a deeper connection do you honey, but God knew I needed that encouragement that was at the very end of your book awaiting me. It was like the icing on the cake. I would get at the end of one chapter and say OK that’s all for no
Oh, thank you sister Anita. I felt compelled to read your book to the end until I was done. And as I did I felt a deeper connection do you honey, but God knew I needed that encouragement that was at the very end of your book awaiting me. It was like the icing on the cake. I would get at the end of one chapter and say OK that’s all for now, and I’d start reading a few sentences of the next chapter and couldn’t lay it down LOL and it was that way all the way through the book. -
Anita. I want to share something from your book that made me weep and weep, for it touched me so very deeply. Now I’m going to quote it back to you. It was a scripture that you shared in one of the last few paragraphs of your book It is Psalms 124:7–8 KJV Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the Fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth I have been quoting that verse for about one month now over my son. He is hooked on meth and is also facing some very difficult times in another way. So I have been declaring that over here About a month ago I came across the scripture where I marked his name. I wept when I read this. I had forgotten it. I started reading your book on a Monday afternoon and finished it on that following Saturday morning. I was compelled to read it, and then when I got to the very end and read that scripture, I lost it, for I felt it was confirmation to me for the deliverance of my son. I know that is no coincidence. - Sharon
Anita, I couldn't put it down. I need book 2. I applaud you and am grateful to you for sharing the most innermost of your life. I was never much of a reader, but this book is a must read for everyone. I pray Gods blessings are multiplied tenfold, twentyfold and more.
- Peggy H
This book is amazing. I experienced every emotion while readin
Anita, I couldn't put it down. I need book 2. I applaud you and am grateful to you for sharing the most innermost of your life. I was never much of a reader, but this book is a must read for everyone. I pray Gods blessings are multiplied tenfold, twentyfold and more.
- Peggy H
This book is amazing. I experienced every emotion while reading this book. At times I teared up in sympathy for the little girls I could envision so well and other times I wished I could reach into this book and kill the monster of a father these children endured. Other times I found myself smiling at the childlike innocence of little Anita and how she found beauty in simple things. I'm longing for a sequel as I need answers to some unanswered questions. Anita Ayers is an amazing writer; I pictured each scene with vivid detail.
- Jill R., Edinburg, In.
I just finished “Jesus Loves Me”. Please tell Debbie that her “real family” has been waiting all along… It is the family of Jesus. What an emotional book. When I first met you, I thought you graduated from The University Notre Dame or just finished a photo shoot for Glamour magazine. You are a remarkable woman.
- Chanda W
I was spell bound. You did such a great job I felt like I was there looking through your eyes. You did a phenomenal job and I've gotten your address so I can send a donation for the book. I felt myself being pulled back into my own childhood fighting with siblings, doing mean-spirited things. I can't understand how you suffered so and yet
I was spell bound. You did such a great job I felt like I was there looking through your eyes. You did a phenomenal job and I've gotten your address so I can send a donation for the book. I felt myself being pulled back into my own childhood fighting with siblings, doing mean-spirited things. I can't understand how you suffered so and yet chose to follow God who let it all happen to you. I've written a historical novel and in the midst of my work I realized I was trying to work out my own confusion by making it part of my heroine's confusion. Why doesn't God protect the innocent? I can't say your book helped me with that area, but it reminded me that there are people, like yourself, who have suffered greatly at the hands of wicked people and yet you walked away from that childhood duplex and somehow made peace with it all. And you still chose to trust God anyway. Thank you so much for sharing your childhood. I couldn't put it down. I cried for the innocent child and shook my head at your meanness. I was heartbroken to learn about Pam. I too have struggled for years with depression, and I know how it can twist your thoughts until you think you're doing the world a favor by killing yourself. I loved her in the book and my heart hurt for all the burden she had to carry as a child. Thanks again for an amazing, amazing book. I can't believe this was the first you've written. I pray it gets more exposure so more people can receive the blessing that comes from reading it.
Sincerely, a sister in Christ,
- Janice H., Greenwood, IN.
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Hello Anita! I would like to leave a review of your book, Jesus Loves Me. I bought your book while I was at your church on a Sunday morning about a month ago. I couldn't put it down! It brought back so many memories of my own childhood. I couldn't believe that we grew up in the same vicinity around the same time, played at the same parks,
Hello Anita! I would like to leave a review of your book, Jesus Loves Me. I bought your book while I was at your church on a Sunday morning about a month ago. I couldn't put it down! It brought back so many memories of my own childhood. I couldn't believe that we grew up in the same vicinity around the same time, played at the same parks, knew some of the same people, yet no one knew of what we were going through. We suffered in silence. It brought back memories of Sylvia Likens and what she went through and didn't survive. I guess we were lucky. Well, lucky is a word I will not use lightly. At times I didn't feel so lucky. I thank God daily for my survival. I pray that your book will make it into the hands of people of authority that deal with children, so they might be able to see why some of the children they deal with are the way they are. That maybe they can help some innocent child not suffer abuse of any kind. I hope it gets the word out that Abuse is not acceptable! I hope it helps people keep their eyes open to the children around them. I pray that it causes whoever reads it, to get on their knees and cry out to God and say that enough is enough!
Thanks so much for writing the book. I know it is God inspired and that it is going to help everyone that reads it in one way or another! I am looking forward to a follow up book of where you are now and what God brought you through in your years after school and up until present day! You are a living testimony of what Satan meant for harm; God turned around for the good! Thank you for all that you do!
- Linda W
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