Rev. Carner
was born in 1983 to Pastor and Mrs. J.W. Carner and she served in ministry with him for several years. Under his leadership,
she was licensed in August or 2000. Rev. Carner later ministered for several years at the Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church
where E. Dewey Smith, Jr. is Pastor/Teacher. She was ordained there in 2008.
Rev. Carner
currently serves at The Bible-Based Fellowship Church where Rev. Arthur T. Jones, D.Min. is Senior Pastor/Teacher, She serves
there as Pastor of Children and Youth. Rev. Carner continues to share her ministries of teaching, preaching and music to facilitate
change in the lives of children, youth, and adults.
Rev. Carner
has participated in several youth conferences as a facilitator and conference leader. She has preached up and down the East
coast and has even made her way to London in the United Kingdom where she studied abroad for one semester. Rev. Carner has
a passion for studying Theology and exploring the biblical text for meaning and centering the self in a self-centered age.
She graduated from Mercer University in Macon, GA, with a Bachelors degree in Christianity and a minor in Business Administration.
Rev. Carner is also a graduate of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University where she received a Masters of Divinity.
She has aspirations to pursue her PhD in Womanist Studies.
Rev. Carner
is not only a gifted preacher and teacher, but she also enjoys working in the community to improve the standard of living
for others. She has planned and implemented programs, for the City of Macon to train high school students for college, such
as the Core Neighborhood Program and she implemented a program, which assisted elderly residents in improving the façade of
their houses. She is also currently a member of the Community Advisory Council as a representative for Mercer University.
In addition
to preaching, singing and working in her community Rev. Carner accepted an adjunct professorship teaching Theology at Barry
University this summer. She aspires to teach more Theology courses as she prepares to enter a doctoral program in Womanist
Studies. Her doctoral prospectus is entitled Inaudible Noise: A Methodology for Transformative Preaching to RastafarI, Afro-Baptist,
and Pentecostal Assemblies of the World Women.
One of
the most striking characteristics about Rev. Carner is her desire to bring out the best in others. She seeks to be an encouragement
to all those around her. Rev. Carner continues to live out the words of the first song she learned to sing, “I’m
just a nobody trying to tell everybody about somebody who can save anybody.”