Dayana Mendoza is a former international model and beauty queen from Venezuela. She began her career in the fashion industry at the age of 15 as a way to achieve her educational aspirations and to help support her family. As an international model, Dayana lived in various countries in Europe, and in the US. At 21, Dayana returned to Venezuela with plans to pursue her studies. After much convincing, Dayana took on one final job competing for the national title of Miss Venezuela. Though her experience was limited, it was evident that God had set her apart for something extraordinary when she took home the national title. Her victory elevated her to compete on the world stage where she once again triumphed, winning the prestigious crown of Miss Universe.
Faced with a challenging political climate in Venezuela, after the competition, Dayana put on hold her desire to achieve her educational aspirations and settled in the US where she found a myriad of commercial success in fashion and on TV. Dayana also partnered with various non-profit organizations as a volunteer and an ambassador.
Even though professionally, Dayana garnered remarkable achievements, her proudest moment is in becoming a mother to her beloved daughter. While motherhood brought Dayana an abundance of joy, shortly after her daughter’s birth, her life took a painful turn through divorce. This heartache led her on a search for healing and restoration through in teachings and practices that only took her down a darker path.
What the enemy meant for evil, the Sovereign Lord turned around for good as He used this experience to bring Dayana to the end of herself and to the only way to true, everlasting healing and restoration in Jesus Christ. Since receiving Jesus as her Lord and Savior, Dayana and her family’s lives have been a display of Christ’s mighty works and miracles.
Today, Dayana is a college graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Montclair State University where she studied Communications and International Business with a cum laude distinction. In 2022, Dayana was ordained an Evangelist within the five fold ministry. She is an active member of the leadership team at Overcomers in Christ Deliverance Assembly in Newark, New Jersey where she is being raised up to build disciples, heal and deliver the oppressed. Under Overcomers in Christ, Dayana also oversees the Spanish ministry, Vencedores en Cristo Grupo de Iglesias (VCGI).
Having been transformed by the goodness of God, Dayana has chosen to dedicate her life and her God given platform to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. As part of her ministry work, the Lord has given to her a deep understanding of the spiritual realm which He began to cultivate at the age of 4 when she first encountered the supernatural. In addition, Dayana has a particular heart to bring Christ’s healing and restoration to women, to provide spiritual covering for children, and to raise up leaders for God's Kingdom. As a dedicated servant of Jesus Christ, the title Dayana desires to attain is the one in which the Lord has purposed in her from when she was in her mother’s womb, the distinction of being called a Good and Faithful Servant on the day of the Lord.
Philippians 3:12-14 NIV
12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
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