Dr. Venessee J. Burns, Pastor, Carter Tabernacle CME Church
Bible Study - Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Vanessee J. Burns is the daughter of the late Henry and Florence Burns and is presently the God-given daughter of Brenda Springs of Greenville, SC.
She is a certified Clinical Counselor and her clinical training includes a year's residency with the Georgia Department of Corrections; one year at the VA Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia and one year with the South Carolina Department of Mental Health, Anderson, SC.
She has served in the Pastoral and Clinical ministry for over fifteen years. Presently she serves as the pastor of Carter Tabernacle CME Church, Orlando, Fl.
Within the CME Church she has served in many capacities. In the Carolina Region she has twice served as a delegate to the General Conference; the Dean of the ITC Continuing Education Certificate Program; Secretary of the Committee on Ministerial Examination, and Editor of the Seventh Epistle: The official news piece of the Seventh Episcopal District. Presently she serves as Florida Region Chairperson of the Committee on Ministerial Examination, District Coordinator of the Ministerial Developmental Institute and was elected to serve as a clergy delegate to the 2010 General Conference..
In the community, she is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. In 2005, she was appointed by the mayor of Charlotte, NC to the Citizen's Review Board where she served as the chairperson. This board receives and reviews complaints made by the citizen's of Charlotte against the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and forwards their decisions to the Chief of Police. She is a member of the Orlando Health Community Council on Spirituality and Healing and the African-American Council of Christian Clergy.
She has a desire to see God's love spread both home and abroad. In this, she has led five teams to Jamaica, Haiti, and Nigeria. In these projects they have distributed food, clothing, toiletries, school supplies, repaired buildings, provided medical treatment and is now completing the building of a school in Nsit Atai, Nigeria (The Carter Tabernacle School of Nsit Atai). At Carter, over twenty-seven new ministries have formed and are active.. The majority of these ministries are to help meet the needs of persons outside of the walls of the church.
Vanessee hold fast to the belief that true teaching should is done by both precept and example. A church should strive to be relevant in its teaching and application of the gospel. In this relevance, people might come to know the God who loved us enough to send us Jesus Christ.
