Elder Mirinda Turner received salvation at the age of 21. She answered the call to ministry and licensed to preach the gospel in 2005. In 2009 she was ordained as Elder by the Tidewater Metro Baptist Conference. Elder Turner serves as an Associate Minister at St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church Portsmouth, Virginia under Dr. Dwight Riddick. Mirinda attended Virginia University of Lynchburg at the Suffolk Campus and also Lynchburg, Virginia via online studies and received a Master Degree in Divinity. She is married to Deacon Alvin Turner and they have two daughters, three grandsons and one granddaughter. Her favorite scripture is 1Peter 3:15 "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear." KJV