Rev. Dr. Shannon Jacob Warner, DMin
Rev. Shannon Jacob Warner was born the youngest of seven children to the union of the late Rev. Levy Marshall Warner Jr. and Lillie Warner. He is married to the former, Paula J. Tillman of Brusly, Louisiana and they are the parents of three boys, Jardan, Jalen, and Shannon II.
Rev. Warner answered the call to ministry in September, 1998 and shortly after was licensed and ordained to the gospel ministry. He served under the leadership and ministry coach of his father, Rev. Levy M. Warner, Jr., who was the Pastor of the St. John Baptist Church, Plaquemine, Louisiana for 33 years.
Rev. Warner received a Bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana, a Master of Divinity and a Doctor of Ministry from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He relishes the opportunities to attend conferences on leadership training and preaching to ensure that he keeps abreast of current and relevant ministry issues.
His philosophy lines up with the words of Apostle Paul, “study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needed not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” — 2 Timothy 2:15.
In the summer of 2005, Rev. Warner was the lone African American student out of thirty students from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary to study at the distinguished Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University, in Oxford, England. For thirteen years, he has served as under shepherd of the historic Macedonia Church, Plaquemine, Louisiana.
Rev. Warner holds firm to the belief best summarized in Howard Thurman’s quote,