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Meet Ciara
BIO
Ciara Ranae Hampton is a daughter of Abba in Heaven, a wife to her husband Matthew, her favorite sarcastic kingdom teammate, and a mother to two little blondies who keep her days full of trucks, dance parties, library trips, snack requests, and holy chaos. At 31 years old, Ciara often jokes that she has already lived several lifetimes, and in many ways, she has.
Born in Washington State and shaped by seasons of life in Arizona, Louisiana, Virginia, and now Northern Kentucky, Ciara’s journey has been anything but ordinary. Through heartbreak, restoration, hard lessons, deep healing, and the faithfulness of YHWH through every chapter, she has come to know the Father not only as Savior, but as Redeemer, Restorer, and the steady hand guiding every unexpected turn in the road.
Ciara and her husband both entered their marriage carrying stories marked by pain, mistakes, and personal transformation. What YHWH has built between them now is something they hold with deep gratitude: a marriage rooted in honesty, healing, laughter, friendship, and genuine appreciation for one another.
Before stepping fully into motherhood and ministry, Ciara spent years working in leadership, hospitality, children’s ministry, and community outreach. Her background includes serving as a children’s library assistant where she led a music and movement program called Noisemakers, working as a barista for five years, serving and training in restaurants for over a decade, managing restaurant teams, and later becoming a training director for Chick-fil-A — an experience she describes as both “deeply sanctifying and slightly traumatic in the most character-building way possible.”
Most recently, Ciara served as Ministry Coordinator for Child Evangelism Fellowship in Northern Kentucky, where she organized Good News Clubs, partnered with local churches, and passionately advocated for children to know the love and truth of their Father in heaven. Though her spiritual journey eventually led her away from traditional church structures and into Torah observance and home fellowship, her heart for evangelism, discipleship, and gathering people around the truth of Scripture has never faded.
Entirely self-taught, Ciara carries a deep love for communication, encouragement, creativity, and helping people feel seen. Friends often describe her as bold, nurturing, deeply opinionated in the best way, and the kind of woman who will both make you laugh until you cry and challenge you to grow at the same time. Whether she is counseling a hurting friend, hosting women around a table, cooking meals from half the world’s cuisines, or worship dancing in the living room with her children, her heart is always the same: to create spaces where people encounter joy, truth, healing, and the presence of God.
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As co-founder of Women at the Well Collective, Ciara is passionate about helping women encounter the beauty of biblical discipleship, authentic community, and wholehearted devotion to Yeshua. Her desire is not to present a polished version of faith, but to walk honestly alongside women as they pursue deeper intimacy with the Father, wrestle through hard questions, and learn to build peaceful, set-apart lives centered on Him.
When she manages to find a rare quiet moment, Ciara can usually be found listening to podcasts while cleaning, experimenting in the kitchen, reading, painting, doing a Sudoku puzzle on Sabbath afternoon, or gripping her coffee cup for dear life before her baby girl tries to snatch at it.. with the quickest hands!
At the center of everything Ciara does is a deep longing to see women awakened to truth, strengthened in identity, filled with courage, and reminded that even the most broken chapters of their story can become places where Living Water flows.
Testimony
Ciara Ranae Hampton’s testimony is one of redemption, restoration, and the relentless faithfulness of the Father through every season of life.
Raised in the Christian church with a father serving as a deacon, Ciara grew up surrounded by Scripture, church culture, and the language of God — yet behind closed doors, her home life was marked by fear, abuse, and instability. Much of her childhood was spent trying to be “perfect” in hopes of avoiding punishment, carrying both a deep love for life and a constant undercurrent of fear at the same time.
When Ciara was nine years old, her mother courageously left that environment and fled with her children from Arizona back to Washington State. Looking back now, Ciara sees the hand of God covering their family through that entire season. Some of her earliest memories of truly encountering the Father came during those difficult years — moments of protection, provision, peace, and unmistakable reminders that heaven saw them.
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Be
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One memory in particular stayed with her forever. During the drive to Washington, her family stopped at a park where Ciara climbed to the top of a large rock and discovered a small silver charm with a lighthouse engraved on it and the words “Be the Light.” She tied it to a rainbow-colored thread and wore it constantly for the next year, believing with childlike faith that God Himself was speaking purpose over her life.
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At twelve years old, after stepping away from church for a season, a friend invited Ciara to a youth group called U-Turn. That night changed everything.
For the first time, faith felt real.
It was not performative religion or shallow entertainment — it was authentic hunger for God. Hearing the gospel preached with passion and sincerity awakened something deep within her, and that night she surrendered her life fully to the Father. In her own words, she needed something greater than what her earthly father had shown her. She needed the love of her Heavenly One.
From that moment forward, Ciara became radically passionate about Yeshua. She carried her Bible everywhere, constantly talked about God, and boldly shared her faith with anyone who would listen. Though that passion often made her the target of intense bullying throughout middle school, she continued pressing into her relationship with the Father. During those years, she even started a small Bible study in her school courtyard for students who felt like outcasts — a memory she still treasures deeply today. Years later, the Father would bring that story full circle. The same little girl once gathering the outcasts in a school courtyard would one day help lead online Bible studies for women all over the country who were hungry for truth, community, and the presence of God.
But after moving again as a teenager, the fear of rejection slowly began replacing the boldness she once carried. Wanting desperately to be accepted, Ciara drifted into years marked by insecurity, people-pleasing, unstable relationships, and spiritual inconsistency. Though she still loved God, her faith became increasingly emotional rather than deeply rooted, leaving her vulnerable to compromise and confusion.
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Everything shifted again in 2020.
While living in Virginia during the height of the COVID season, Ciara experienced what she describes as a true spiritual awakening. Alone in her bedroom one night, feeling empty, distant from God, and exhausted by the weight of sin and self-centered living, she felt the overwhelming conviction of the Father ask a single question:
“Whom do you serve?”
Broken before Him, she fell to the floor in repentance and surrendered her life completely. From that moment on, nothing remained the same. Her hunger for Scripture became insatiable, and the Father began leading her into a deeper pursuit of truth, wisdom, and wholehearted obedience.
Whom
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A verse from Hosea — “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” — became a turning point in her journey. No longer content with shallow understanding or inherited beliefs, Ciara began studying Scripture intensely for herself. What started as a love for apologetics and biblical truth eventually became a years-long journey that led her to Torah observance.
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Though the process was gradual and at times overwhelming, the Father continued opening her eyes layer by layer.
After moving to Kentucky, what seemed like an ordinary invitation to a Shabbat dinner became another defining moment in her walk with God. As prayers were spoken in Hebrew over the bread and wine, Ciara felt the presence of the Father in a way she had longed for her entire life. What she had spent years searching for — the depth, reverence, community, and biblical foundation she saw in the book of Acts — suddenly felt tangible and alive.
For the first time, she felt home.
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From there, the Father began transforming every area of her life through Torah, biblical discipleship, and wholehearted surrender. She counted the cost, walked away from familiar church systems and ministry structures, and embraced the refining process of walking the narrow path with Yeshua.
Today, Ciara’s heart is to help other women know they are not alone in that journey.
As co-founder of Women at the Well Collective, she is passionate about helping women encounter truth with both boldness and grace, pursue deeper intimacy with the Father, and discover the beauty of walking in His ways. Her desire is not to present herself as someone who has everything figured out, but as a woman who has been radically transformed by the faithfulness of God and who longs to walk beside others as they seek Him wholeheartedly.
Above all, Ciara’s testimony is one of redemption: a story of a little girl searching for safety, identity, and truth who ultimately discovered that the Father had been calling her home all along.