Evangelist Jacqueline B. Small is the eldest of eleven children of the late Mother Margaret Boston and Curtis Kinnemore, and the granddaughter of the late Samuel and Helen Tisdell Brown. A 1971 graduate of Sophronia M. Tompkins High School, she earned her Child Care Development Associate Certificate from Savannah Technical School (2001) and a B.S. in Sociology from Savannah State University (2007). In 2012, she pursued her Master’s Degree in Bible at Covington Theological Seminary. On May 24, 1986, she married Pastor (now Bishop) Nathaniel Small, Sr., becoming stepmother to four stepchildren, nine step-grandchildren, and twelve step-great-grandchildren. Her career spans decades of service to children and families, beginning at Greenbriar Children’s Center in 1987. She has received numerous honors, including recognition from the Office of School Readiness (1998), United Christian Women’s Fellowship (2006), and the National Council of Negro Women (2014). In 2025, she was presented, along with several women, an award for being a Woman of Great Influence among women in the City of Savannah and through the State of Georgia. She was honored with pleasure by Dr. Jackie Gilbert Grant & The Forever His Daughters, Inc. She retired in 2017 after 30 years of dedicated service.