Pastor Pauline Hamilton Sims was the second born of four children to Luther and Arris Hamiltonof Dawson, Georgia. She attended the public schools of Terrell County where she graduated salutatorian of her high school class. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Fort Valley State University with subsequent studies at Georgia Southwestern University. She is a true woman of God who has the love of God in her life.  Her passion is to serve God with all of her heart by serving the people of God.  Her daily prayer is that God’s will be done in the earth as it is in heaven and that God will use her to the fullest.  Her motto for life is based on Matthew 6:33,

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” 

Pastor Sims, Prior to a 20 year teaching career at Smoke Rise Elementary Charter School in Dekalb County where she was selected the 2010 Teacher of the Year, she was an engineer and marketing manager for AT&T and Parsons, Brinkerhoof and Tudor Engineering Companies.