Rev. Michelle Lawyer has been a member of the Inner LightCommunity Gospel choir since it's inception in 1980.

Singing musicals in high school and college, she was the first African American woman to have a lead role in a non African American production in the Des Moines Community Playhouse. She had her own local band and started on an operatic career. She was flown to Hollywood for the Nationally televised Arthur Godfrey show but that taped segment never made it off the cutting room floor.

God then guided her back to her roots in Gospel music. She was ordained a minister in 1981 and she has been singing Gospel music ever since, knowing within her that this is a ministry.