{"id":17256,"date":"2021-06-24T18:57:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T22:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=17256"},"modified":"2021-06-24T18:57:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T22:57:41","slug":"former-pussycat-doll-baptism-says-shes-all-in-for-serving-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2021\/06\/former-pussycat-doll-baptism-says-shes-all-in-for-serving-the-lord.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Pussycat Doll Experiences Life-Changing Baptism, Says She\u2019s \u2018All In\u2019 For Serving the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17259\" style=\"width: 538px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2021\/06\/800px-Kaya_Jones_46464954191.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17259\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2021\/06\/800px-Kaya_Jones_46464954191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gage Skidmore\/WikiCommons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kaya Jones, a former member of the popular pop band the Pussycat Dolls, says she\u2019s all in for \u201cserving the Lord\u201d after being baptized and transformed from the inside out, <em>Faithwire<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve sung with Jagger, Britney, Fergie, Katy Perry, [and] many others,\u201d Jones wrote in a Facebook post. \u201cNothing [and] and no one compares to singing with Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cI\u2019m finally now serving the Lord\u2026It was a dream come true to be baptized by this woman who brought me to Christ through the TV.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paula White, the spiritual adviser to former President Donald Trump, brought Jones to Christ. The televangelist pastors City of Destiny Church in Apopka, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Jones first saw White on the BET network about 20 years ago but didn\u2019t meet her face-to-face until she became Trump\u2019s spiritual adviser. In an interview with the <em>Christian Post<\/em>, she described White as \u201cvery kind, very cordial, totally spirit-filled and smiling, glowing with the radiance that is the Holy Spirit and\u2026the peace that\u2019s within her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the 2020 election, Jones was approached by White\u2019s producers after they saw some of her social media content, asking if she\u2019d be interested in hosting a weekly podcast on White\u2019s network, Life Network for Women. Jones agreed and launched her podcast, \u201cMessages with Kaya.\u201d Following the launch of her podcast, she began visiting the City of Destiny Church.<\/p>\n<p>After going to church regularly, she began to get into the Word, and living in that, she said. It wasn\u2019t long before Jones asked about getting baptized. She wanted to \u201creceive the purification by water with the Holy Spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Jones\u2019 interview with the <em>Christian Post<\/em>, she said her experience took her \u201cwalk with the Lord from what was already pretty strong and steady to\u2026all in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As her spiritual journey advanced, her family was also brought closer to God. Jones\u2019 mother returned to the church, and her boyfriend became \u201cmore immersed\u201d in the Bible. This was a result of the change they saw in Jones. They can only attribute it to the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaya Jones, a former member of the popular pop band the Pussycat Dolls, says she\u2019s all in for \u201cserving the Lord\u201d after being baptized and transformed from the inside out, Faithwire reports. \u201cI\u2019ve sung with Jagger, Britney, Fergie, Katy Perry, [and] many others,\u201d Jones wrote in a Facebook post. \u201cNothing [and] and no one compares&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":565,"featured_media":17259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1743,3342,4983,302,4980,4986],"class_list":["post-17256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-television","tag-baptism","tag-born-again","tag-christian-conversion","tag-conversion","tag-pussycat-dolls","tag-transformation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- 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