Reverend Lelia Burgess is an Associate Minister of the Galilee Baptist Church located in Suitland, MD, and Washington, DC, one church with two locations where the Reverend Dr. Lloyd T. McGriff is the senior pastor. Accepting her call to ministry, she preached her first public message in June 1992, and subsequently was licensed as an evangelist. Reverend Burgess was licensed as a Minister of the Gospel in December 1993, and ordained as a Reverend to the ministry in October 1998 by the former pastor of Galilee, the late Reverend Dr. Eugene Weathers.
At present, Reverend Burgess serves on the Ministerial Team, the Director of the Prison Ministry, a team member of the Prayer Team Ministry, the Evangelism Team Ministry, and the Pastoral Care Ministry for the Sick and Shut-In at Galilee Baptist Church, and a Hospice volunteer. In addition, Reverend Burgess has served as the Director of the Nursing Home and Shelter Ministry for seventeen years. She served as the Chairperson of the Membership Ministry for eighteen years, as a Deaconess on the Deaconess Ministry for twelve years, as a Sunday School/Church School Teacher for ten years. Reverend Burgess has served as a Vice Chairperson/member of the Women Ministry. She also has served as a choir member of the E. W. Chorale for sixteen years.
Born and raised in Scotland Neck, North Carolina, Reverend Burgess moved to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area after graduating from high school to pursue an education in business. She completed ministry training in the Elijah Academy of Galilee Baptist Church, being taught by the late Reverend Dr. Eugene Weathers, founder and instructor. Reverend Burgess is a retiree from the federal government after 33 1/2 years of dedicated service. She is pursuing the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biblical Studies with a concentration in Pastoral Ministry.
An anointed and spirit-filled woman of God, Reverend Burgess has preached at numerous churches in the metropolitan area. She preached the Word of God for four years every Sunday on WOL 1450 AM radio station and Heaven 1580 AM radio station. She has preached on the radio in Atlanta, GA, New York City, NY, Her International Radio Broadcasting Ministry has been aired in all of Africa, North America, South America, Central America, all the Caribbean Islands, and the Middle East. Reverend Burgess is preaching the Word of God on the Glory Network Broadcast Streaming Radio Station on every Friday Night at 7:00 P.M. She has a passion for winning souls for God's Kingdom and has a love for all people. She understands and believes that "man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord" (Luke 4:4). Reverend Burgess is excited to have the opportunity to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus wherever and whenever God provides the opportunity. She is married to Deacon Levine Burgess and they have three daughters, and three sons-in-law, LaTonya (Danny), Lolita (Chris), Lakesha (Sean). They have six grandchildren, two granddaughters: Kiara, and Simone, and four grandsons: Chris, Tre, Kevin, and Che.
