Dr. Helen Horton Styles is the wife of the late Rev. Dr. Richard W. Styles. She is the mother of Richard W. Styles, Jr., Helene Rishae Styles-Bunn and Ronald Rowland and the grandmother of Wreaynon Slade, Makaya Bunn, Rojannia Rowland, Nadia Styles Jeremiah Richard Styles

Dr. Helen Horton Styles was born in Thorpe, West Virginia to the parents of Pinkie and Ray Horton.  She is one of nine children born to this union. Dr. Styles grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee where she attended the public school system there.   She graduated fourth in her graduating class and was voted “Miss Versatile”.   In 1964 in a prayer meeting at Shaw University, she met her husband, the late Rev. Dr. Richard W. Styles. At age eleven.  Dr. Styles was baptized at the Central Baptist Church by Rev. William Henry Stockley, where she was trained to become a youth missionary worker and a Sunday School teacher.  At the age of twelve, she was teaching her peers in vacation bible school.  At sixteen, she was serving as President of the Bethel District Youth Missionary Society. At eighteen she was attending Shaw University and serving on the Religious Emphasis Committee for the university.

 Dr. Styles attended Shaw University and graduated in 1968 with a B. A. in Community Relations. Next, she attended Elon College and graduated in 1977 with a B. A. in Social Studies. Then she attended North Carolina A & T State University and graduated in 1991 with an M. A. in Social Studies and School Administration. And finally she attended Jacksonville Theological Seminary and graduated in 2006 with a Doctorate in Theology.

 Dr. Styles is a retired educator and administrator of the Alamance-Burlington School System.  She retired in 2004 after having served for 13 years in the classroom and 13 years in administration.  Dr. Styles has worked as a Social worker, classroom teacher, Chapter I Reading Coordinator, Dropout Prevention Director and Curriculum Director for At-Risk Students, a Grief Counselor, a Dean of Academics at both Pinnacle Maranatha Bible College, Trinity Theological Seminary (Burlington Campus) and Positive Day School. Presently, Dr. Styles is the founder and CEO of “Go and Tell Ministry” which includes several video outreach ministries: Morning Glory Preaching Ministry; Wednesday Zoom Bible Study; Zoom Individual and Group Grief Counseling; Marriage Counseling Sessions For Couples; Individual and Group Biblical Counseling and Intercessory Prayer Sessions.  

 In her community Dr. Styles organized the Community Watch Program, Black Males Role Model Program and Helping Hands Summer Youth Work Program. She served   many years on the Board of Directors-N.C Teaching Fellows.; a Teacher and Facilitator and Dean of the Master’s Program at Pinnacle Maranatha Bible College in Burlington.  Dr. Styles served as Dean of Academics at Positive Day School and she served for 16 months as Interim Pastor of Burnett’s Chapel Christian Church in Snow Camp.

 Presently, Dr. Styles is Associate-Minister of Congregational Care at First Baptist Church, Apple Street; Dean at Cedars of Lebanon Bible College in Roxboro, NC. And was named “First Lady Emeritus of first Baptist church, Apple Street.

 Her Motto: “Oh magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt His name together.”