Dr. Vanessee Burns, an ordained Methodist Elder retired after 30 years of Pastoral/Clinical Services. She presently serves in two positions at Georgetown University, Washington, DC: 1) Resident Minister to graduate students where she supports the spiritual and religious needs of students of all religions, beliefs, and identities to connect their faith, spirituality, and values with curricular and co-curricular opportunities and 2) Advisor For Spiritual Care, a pilot position, in which she works in close collaboration with the Director for Mission Integration, as well as other chaplains, and staff and the 55H Residential Educational team. As Advisor, she provides group and individual spiritual care and programming to the students, faculty and staff for Georgetown’s Capital Campus Community.
Her retirement now allows her to focus on Marketplace Ministry as the Apostolic Leader of Kingdom First Ministries (KFM): a Global Marketplace Ministry with the perfect balance of intellectual, spiritual and mental well being. In KFM the gifts for ministry are fully operational until the body of Christ is edified. KFM serves as the covering for individuals, ministries and churches that seek to grow and operate in their gifts through teaching, missions and outreach and provides educational certification, licensure and ordination.
Dr. Burns received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia; a Master of Divinity from the Phillips School of Theology at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia with a concentration in Biblical Languages and Old Testament; and a Doctorate of Ministry from Hood Theological Seminary in Salisbury, NC. Dr. Burns is a lifelong scholar who pursues excellence and inspires others to as well. She has a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy from NorthCentral University and has been accepted into the Graduate Certificate Program in Adaptive and Innovative Leadership at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
She is a Certified Clinical Counselor (ACPE) and served as a full-time Prison Chaplain at Perry Correctional Institute with the South Carolina Department of Corrections and did resident training with the South Carolina Department of Mental Health, Anderson, SC., the Georgia Department of Corrections and the VA Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia. Most recently, she was selected by Georgia State University, “The Garden Initiative for Black Women’s Religious Activism”, as a mentor in its mentorship program as well as appointed to Pathways Academic Council of the United Church of Christ.
She has authored two books, 30 Days of Meditation, a spiritual guide through life lessons coupled with meditative prayers and scriptures, and Let’s Talk About Tongues, an exploration
