Tambi Swiney is the associate pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
1. Where did you grow up?
I was born in Jackson, Tennessee, and my family relocated to the Nashville area when I was 10 years old.
2. What is your favorite verse, book or story in the Bible? Why?
Luke 8:40-56.
Jesus demonstrates how to minister compassionately amid interruptions and competing demands.
3. What is your favorite movie? Why?
“The Sound of Music.”
I love to sing in the mountains!
4. Who are three people you admire?
Jimmy Carter, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hattie Lou Brown (my grandmother, who died last summer at the age of 98).
5. What is one little-known fact about yourself?
I have traveled to all 50 states in the U.S.