"We're telling a different story: Being single is fun, freeing, and a blessing."
CTAS Founder and Executive Director
Christine Anglin is a writer who develops in-depth and insightful creative projects. Ranging from plays to shows that infuse poetry and music, she is a gifted performer who takes the stage and commands it. She holds a B.A from the Howard University School of Business. Christine created this project to be a voice for Christian singles everywhere. To create community, have conversations, and serve as a support system for singles. Christine enjoys spending time with family, traveling, and running.
CTAS Memphis, Program Manager
Shell Odum is the founder of A Radical Relationship, a life coaching ministry focused on helping women to go deeper in their relationship with God, self, others, and their calling through self-examination first. She also works as a Regional Director of Community for Faith Driven Entrepreneur. With an educational background in Psychology Shell's passion has always been for people. In her free time she can be found trying new restaurants, traveling to new destinations, and simply enjoying time with friends and family.
Development Specialist
Jazmine Brazier is a native from Atlanta, GA and Howard University Graduate of 2014. She served over 10 years in nonprofits, focusing on community health and wellness in Washington DC, Atlanta, and the Memphis area. She is now the founder of Community Visions, a consulting firm focusing on strategic planning and fundraising for small businesses and community based organizations. She loves Zumba and tea parties in her pastime.
How it all got started
Christine has lived in 5 states and been single practically her whole life. Growing up in the church, navigating many of her formidable years as a single woman, she quickly noticed the lack of resources available for single people (that wasn't a bible study or a matchmaking service), and the disproportionate way singles were treated. As a single woman, her life choices were constantly in question and misunderstood. Does a person's life have value outside of marriage and parenthood? The answer is emphatically, yes.
In 2022, Christine had conversations with separate people over the course of a few weeks where she bemoaned the ill treatment she felt she'd received as a single woman and the lack of resources available for singles. Each person listened quietly, when she was done, they each stated that this sounded like a passion of hers and that she should do something about it. After the third conversation, she decided to channel her frustration into action. In fall of 2022, she began laying the ground work of Come Tell A Story and March of the following year was the first show. It was beautiful. Better than she could have imagined. Christine created Come Tell A Story to be a voice to single people everywhere, to proclaim to the world that God loves single people too, and to let singles and marrieds alike know that there isn’t anything wrong with being single. In fact, singleness is right.
In 2022, Christine had conversations with separate people over the course of a few weeks where she bemoaned the ill treatment she felt she'd received as a single woman and the lack of resources available for singles. Each person listened quietly, when she was done, they each stated that this sounded like a passion of hers and that she should do something about it. After the third conversation, she decided to channel her frustration into action. In fall of 2022, she began laying the ground work of Come Tell A Story and March of the following year was the first show. It was beautiful. Better than she could have imagined. Christine created Come Tell A Story to be a voice to single people everywhere, to proclaim to the world that God loves single people too, and to let singles and marrieds alike know that there isn’t anything wrong with being single. In fact, singleness is right.