Professional Bio

Ginny Dent Brant graduated with a B.A. from Columbia International University, and holds two Masters Degrees from the University of South Carolina in Elementary Education and Elementary Counseling. With 28 years of experience in public education as a teacher, counselor, and adjunct professor, she currently serves as a counselor at Orchard Park Elementary School.

Ginny served as a trustee of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and has held leadership roles in many Baptist churches. Ginny has done mission work in Gaza, Yemen, the Czech Republic, Romania, and China. She is a soloist, Bible teacher and Christian speaker. She is the President of Laity Alive and Serving which her father, Harry S. Dent, started in 1985.

Her husband, Dr. Alton Brant, is an associate professor of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies at Clemson University. The Brants have one married son, Joshua (and wife Sydney) and twin sons, Jonathan and Harrison. She is the daughter of Harry and Betty Dent.

Ginny was a contributing author for The Chosen Path: 365 Inspirational Messages, Love is a Flame, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Shaping the New You, and online with Christian Devotions. She also contributes articles to The Baptist Courier in South Carolina.