Amanda Flowers Peterson is an entrepreneur, and the Founder/CEO of Zion Crisis Navigational Services. With over ten years’ experience in advocacy and activism, she also spends time giving back to the community as a Shasta County Brave Faces speaker/advocate and serving as a Connect Pastor for Bethel Church, specializing in supporting crisis solutions.

Amanda grew up in adversity. An abusive home, racial bullying, and losing her best friend to suicide are only a few of the examples she uses to express what she’s had to overcome. She founded Zion Crisis Navigational Services to provide to the community the basic help that she did not have, but so desperately needed in the midst of her own crises.

While Amanda sought help to heal from her past, she deeply studied and learned about the services out there to help others like herself. Learning the ins and outs of the non-profits, government systems, and programs that many times failed her is how she became the person she now believes everyone deserves — an advocate.

Amanda lives peaceably in Redding, CA with her husband Jason, and their two sons, Zephaniah and Zechariah. She graduated from Crown College and Northwestern College with degrees in Biblical Theological Studies and Psychology.