Ada Maris
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specialtyEntertainer, TV Actress & Inspirational Speaker bioAda Maris not only delights audiences with her funny songs and sketches, but also touches hearts with her real-life stories. Ada is a well known TV actress, a comic-entertainer, singer and more! Ada has been featured on many of the most popular television shows of our time, including The Cosby Show, Home Improvement, Nash Bridges, The District and many more! She was a big hit at The Latino Laugh Festival and has shared the stage with Broadway stars like Nathan Lane. Ada can be seen in the popular Nickelodeon show, The Brother’s Garcia and has a recurring role as Captain Erika Hernandez on Star Trek: Enterprise. You’ll also remember Ada from the hit NBC show, Nurses, where she starred as the wise-cracking nurse, Gina. Her amazing success at balancing life as a successful actress, wife and mother is a real inspiration to audiences across the U.S. When you experience her one-of-a-kind blend of wholesome humor, uplifting stories and funny songs, you’ll walk away feeling better about yourself and loving Ada Maris! testimonyI grew up not knowing my Lord. I longed for Him, I believed in Him; I wanted to be near Him, but no one in my family could help me. I called myself a Catholic because, I figured, what else could I be? In high school I knew a “Jesus freak”. She was wonderful and scary at the same time. She glowed with something beautiful inside her. Every week she invited me to her church. “Come,” she would say, “Jesus loves you so much.” Finally one Sunday I gave in. It was a tiny Southern Baptist church in the middle of a very Mexican section of East L.A. There was something marvelous and overwhelming going on inside. The pastor described a Jesus who longed for me, too, and my heart ached and opened up to Him. I cried and cried and secretly begged Him to be Lord of my life. Even thinking about it now makes me remember the fragility of that moment so long ago. I was sixteen. I spent the next twelve years or so running away from Him as fast as my legs would carry me. Finally my legs gave out and I fell to my knees. I had met a man I wanted to marry and begin a new and good life with, but I was unequipped. I begged the Lord once again to accept me, to take me in, to help me, to guide and love me. Jesus being who He is, He said yes. He said He had just been waiting for me. Mother Theresa once told the cast of a musical in Calcutta that what they were doing was needed in the world as never before. “It is the same action,” she said, “whether you are singing and dancing and we are rubbing and scrubbing. You are filling the world with the love God has given you.” To my dear prospective audience: That is my greatest hope. Travels from: Los Angeles, CA Performance Fee: Call for quote Travel Requirements: Airfare & Hotel for (2)
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