We recently connected with Celeste Shariece Brewer and have shared our conversation below.

Celeste Shariece, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

I first started off as a little girl praise dancing at Rising Star Baptist Church located in Fort Worth, TX. Then, my senior year at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, I stated to Di’Sha Wallace who was miming at Rising Star at the time “Girl I wish I could be like you.”
She responded to me “be careful what you ask for”.

One year later, my freshman year at Huston-Tillotson University, located in Austin TX, God laid on my heart, miming. I can’t lie I laughed at first because I remembered that very conversation but I also was ready to experience the gift. I then started learning from my mentor Bria Harris, and a friend named Steven Davenport. In practices, it became so natural to me as if I had been doing it for years. The very first song I ministered too with them was Seasons by Donald Lawrence. When we ministered, I felt so alive and filled. After that , I realized I had a gift.

I nurtured the gift , I kept on miming with them and watched YouTube videos of others miming. I learned. Each year I grew in the ministry, with each time that I ministered, God annointed me & he fulfilled me with everything I needed. I am always told that I’ve blessed someone or that they needed it after I mime. It’s just a blessing to be a blessing.

When I came home to visit from college I went to Rising Star Baptist Church and ministered to Seasons by myself. Everyone there confirmed my gift for me.

During college and after college miming became an outlet for me. It was just me and God during that time and it felt good.

In 2022 I came back home and joined my fathers church, Historic Greater Saint James Baptist Church located a few blocks east of downtown Fort Worth TX. I started miming there and eventually became the mime leader for some young men at the church. I now get to teach them and pour into them so they can eventually do the same.

Fast forward, One day last year 2023, God put on my heart that I needed to branch out and not limit him to Historic Greater Saint James. I was scared at first and didn’t know if I heard God correctly but it was confirmed by God when my cousin Monica Thompson asked me to minister for her 20 year breast cancer survivor celebration. I said “Okay God, I hear you.”

So on September 15,2023, I launched my ministry on all Social Media Platforms. God gave me the opportunity to not only bless the people at my church but around the world.

Chosen Vessel is open for bookings by email [email protected]

Celeste Shariece, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Chosen Vessel , where did it come from. Well, I would always pray before I minister and ask God to use me as his Vessel and I know I was chosen by God to mime so, I put the two together and I got Chosen Vessel Mime Ministry. I minister at Birthdays, Funerals/Homegoing Services, Guest Church Services, Church Anniversaries and more. I believe that I provide to everyone something different for each occasion. Miming for me, is more than just putting paint on your face and coming up with moves to a song. I can easily come up with moves to a song but it’s not just that. If you can’t minister to yourself, you can’t minister to no one else. I always say minister to yourself first. There is a lot that goes into miming , no matter the occasion. I do not take it lightly when being asked to minister. I prepare my heart, mind, body and soul. I fast, pray and talk to God. What happens when I minister is, I first pray and ask God to open my ears so I can hear the song that I’m supposed to minister too. I start off listening to different songs and eventually one song sticks with me. Sometimes two or three songs stick with me and I just then ask God to help me see which song to choose, whether it be by someone mentioning the song, by something someone says or a post I see on social media. Once the song is chosen, I meditate on it and pray for confirmation of that song. I usually start this three weeks before I’m about to minister. After a song has been chosen and confirmation is given. I read the lyrics and I come up with moves to go with those words. I don’t tackle one song in one day, I spread my time out and I see visually what I can do, it’ll just pop in my mind. During this time I’m fasting and again making sure I’m ministering to me first. Now, one thing I don’t do is, over practice , because it leaves no room for God to come in and move through me. After that I pray a prayer before the day of ministering and the day of, asking God to empty me and put in me him. Even if only one person is blessed, I’ve succeeded because I was obedient to being chosen. I want people to know when booking with Chosen Vessel, that I do not rush , I take it very seriously and I take into account the occasion. There is always room for growth and I just strive to get better and bless more people each time.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

The most rewarding aspect for me is how I feel when I’m ministering. Ministering is not only an outlet and brings so much to the audience but it’s also an outlet for me. I bless myself a lot of times, and there are times I get my own sense of relief and peace from ministering. It’s amazing what God does through me. When I rewatch it , I get chills. What I see is God moving through me and I see things I didn’t even practice. Another thing that’s rewarding is seeing and hearing from people that they were blessed by it, that alone continues to confirm my gift.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

My goal is to bless more and more people each time I minister. If they don’t know who God is, I pray that they get to know God from watching me minister. My goal is for someone to get something out of me ministering whether it be comfort, a sense of peace, joy, a release, time of remembering who God is or a breakthrough.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chosenvesselmime?igsh=MXM3YXdjOGlraXY5dw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chosenvesselmimeministry?mibextid=LQQJ4d
• Other: [email protected]