The Reverand Dr. Helen Washington-Randall is a native of Essex County, Virginia. She is the fifth child born to the late George S. and Helen Davis Washington. She is a 1979 graduate of Essex High School and graduated from Hampton University in May 1984 with a BSN in Nursing with high honors. She has done graduate study in Nursing at VCU in Richmond, Virginia. In 1992, she married the Reverend Morris L. Randall, Sr. and they have a blended family of three sons: Morris Jr, Maurice, and Martel. They are blessed with four granddaughters: Diazshauna, Kyndall, Alexis, and Brooklyn. Three great grandchildren: Alanna, & Aniah, and their first grandson: McKinley. Helen recognized there was a calling on her life and preached her initial sermon at the Angel Visit Baptist church in Dunnsville, Virginia on March 25, 2007, under the leadership of the Reverand Dr. Carla Lightfoot. She enrolled in the Virginia Union University's Evans Smith leadership Training program and after 2 years, received an advanced certificate in Biblical Studies in 2009. She enrolled in the North Carolina College of Theology and obtained a Master's degree in 2010. She was ordained by the Ephesus Baptist Church in West Point, Virginia on April 7, 2013. She has preached when available throughout the state of Virginia. She worked with her husband at Ephesus Baptist Church in whatever capacity was needed. At Ephesus she has taught bible study, a segment of the new members class, and has served on the sanctuary and senior choirs. She was active in the Pamunkey Baptist Ministries Council and has served as Vice President while in King William County. In 2017, after much prayer and approval from her husband, she served as interim pastor for the Elam Baptist Church in Charles City, Virginia. In November 2018, she was installed as the 16th pastor and first female in their 212-year history. Under her leadership, an Audio-Visual Ministry was started during the pandemic. They successfully purchased cameras, monitors, and other equipment for use in the sanctuary and fellowship hall to share the gospel via Zoom, YouTube and Facebook live. They have been blessed to construct an Elam Baptist Church web page and begin utilizing a communication app "Calling Post" which fosters personal and audible communication on a group scale. She is proud of their annual Fall festival which has been a community highlight in October of each year. It provides health information, Covid immunizations and boosters, senior resource information, games and hayrides for children, good food and fellowship for the Charles City community co-sponsored with Dominion Power. 

Dr. Washington-Randall continues to lead those whom God has entrusted to her care with a Shepard's heart. She is a member of the Charles City Clergy council and gives her participation and support to the needs of the Charles city community.

She is employed by the Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News, Virginia as an RN Patient Navigator for Operative Services and has been part of that facility for 32 years. She is an instructor with the North Carolina Theological Seminary (Williamsburg Campus) and teaches theological studies at the master's level. In May 2019, Helen earned a Doctor of Theology degree from the North Carolina Theological Seminary in Clinton, North Carolina.

She enjoys singing, watching sports, reading, cooking, and good fellowship. After the loss of her mother at an early age, her father was left alone to raise her along with seven siblings. They were taught the empowering benefits of a belief, trust and faith in God, the essential value of prayer, the values of hard work and discipline, the importance of higher education and the necessity of love of family and service to others. These lessons shaped Helen into the woman she has become and has carried her throughout this life. Her life motto os found in Philippines 3:13-14 "Brethren i count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.".

She truly believes that "everything that happened to me that was good - GOD DID IT!"