While attending a college in Florida, Lisa Fields (’15) took a religion course. She said the professor challenged her faith and tried to convince her that he was going to change everything she knew about Jesus.
Fields struggled through that time until her father introduced her to Ravi Zacharias Ministries, where she fell in love with apologetics. After months of prayer and reflection, she began to form the ideas that would later lead her to start the Jude 3 Project — named for verse 3 in the epistle, where Jude encourages Christians “to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people.”
“I noticed a lack of African-American clergy doing apologetics, so I wanted to change that,” said Fields. “I wanted to train people in apologetics, and by God’s grace our work started growing.”
Feeling led by God to equip herself for the ministry, Fields quit her job as a banker and moved to Lynchburg to pursue a Master of Divinity at Liberty. She launched the Jude 3 Project in March 2014. Fields is also the host of the project’s podcast, “Brunch Culture,” where she interviews scholars and prominent preachers. She also attends conferences all over the country speaking on apologetics.
Fields said she hopes to speak at every historical black college in the country within the next five years. The organization is also in the process of filming a documentary on Africans and African-Americans throughout church history.
“The only word I can use to describe it is grace,” said Fields of the Jude 3 Project. “It feels like a blessing that God would choose me to do something that I feel is above my pay grade.”
Fields said the Master of Divinity program helped her hone her skills in apologetics, which she uses to equip the church and engage the culture. She said the one-on-one talks she had with her professors were some of the most transformational moments of her life.
“My time at Liberty gave me the tools I needed to effectively engage in robust theological conversation,” she said. “Since my organization works in apologetics, theology is something I use every day.
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