Staff photo / Bob Coupland Christian singer Jenah Shank of Austintown shares her ministry through song with programs at several area churches. Shank recently hosted a concert at New Covenant Baptist Church in Lordstown. From left are Pastor Jim Simones, Jenah Shank and her husband, Ron Shank.

LORDSTOWN — Christian singer / songwriter Jenah Shank of Austintown shares her ministry through song with programs at area churches, including a recent concert at New Covenant Baptist Church in Lordstown.

Shank has shared her music and testimony at coffee houses, churches, festivals, jails, youth meetings, recovery centers, suicide survivor vigils and various venues throughout the country.

Shank has recorded several albums and participates in various outreach and benefit efforts.

“I try to inspire people through my music and provide healing through music. If I can do something uplifting through my music for them, I will. Healing comes from music,” Shank said.

Pastor Jim Simones of New Covenant Baptist Church said one of the members recommended Shank be a guest at the church and share her ministry.

“We were glad to have her here,” he said.

Shank said her music royalties have helped send disadvantaged youth to summer camp and provide essential supplies to those in need.

In 2010, Shank and her husband, Ron, established a scholarship fund to help send Native American youth to the Inlow Baptist Camp in New Mexico.

The Shanks also have been able to reach thousands of individuals through their work at the Truckers Ministry in Ohio. Jenah Shank is co-founder of Pink Out America, which provides music events for those dealing with serious illnesses.

One such event is the annual Pink Out Mahoning Valley music festival in Austintown each October to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

“When seriously ill or injured people are not able to go to the music, the organization will take the music to them,” Shank said.

She said she has visited homebound individuals in hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care facilities and even in their homes to brighten their lives with a little music, friendship and fellowship.

Shank said her music reaches across various audiences as her storytelling style of songwriting focuses on relationships among friends and family, and a relationship with God the Father through a relationship with his son, Jesus Christ.

For information, visit

jenahshankmusic.org.