Administration - Turks and Caicos Conference of Seventh day Adventists

ADMINISTRATION

Pastor Steve Cornwall

President

Pastor Steve Cornwall was born in Kingston, Jamaica, but grew up in the parish of St. Elizabeth, where he was baptized at the tender age of nine and started his ministry as a lay preacher at age fifteen.

 

In 2015 he accepted a call to the Turks & Caicos Island to serve as pastor of the French-speaking congregations in Providenciales and later that year he was voted as the Executive Secretary of the Turks & Caicos Islands Mission.

He is married to Kissia Cornwall, née Thomas and their marriage has produced two boys: Matthew and Marc. 

  On December 2, 2018 at the Inaugural Conference Session of the Turks and Caicos Islands Conference, he was voted as the first President of the Conference

Pastor Terry Tanis

SECRETARY

Pastor Terry Tanis  grew  up  in  the  picturesque settlement of James Cistern on the beautiful island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas. He was nurtured in  the  admonition  of  the  Lord.  As  such,  he  accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior at the tender age of twelve.

Pastor Tannis worked in the South Bahamas Conference as an intern and then as dristrict pastor from April 2008- December 2018.

He is married to Samantha Tanis and their union has produced two children: Samiyah and Samuel.

On December 2, 2018 at the Inaugural Conference Session of the Turks and Caicos Islands Conference, he was voted as the Executive Secretary and Personal Ministries Director of the conference.

 

Ms. Simone Gilkes

Treasurer

Simone Gilkes was born in the land of “One people, One nation, One Destiny”-Guyana.

In 1989 she migrated to the Turks and Caicos and has made these islands her home ever since.

She has two adult children: Breanna and Marvin.

She is a Chartered Certified Account and in 2015 was voted as the treasurer of the then Turks and Caicos Islands Mission. On December 2, 2018 when the mission transitioned to a conference she was elected as its first treasurer.