Motivator January 28th

Co-Pastor John and Kitty Burns
Pastor John C. Burns was born in Leesville and has lived there all his life with the exception of four years in college and two years in the U. S. Army.
He started attending the Pentecostal Church in Leesville when he was a small boy around five years old. His grandmother and aunt, both of whom were members, took him to Sunday School.

At the age of fourteen he received the gift of the Holy Ghost and was baptized in Jesus' name. After high school, he enrolled in Northwestern State university at Natchitoches, Louisiana and pursued a degree in Business Education. After graduation in May of 1956, he married a beautiful girl from Natchitoches who was a member of the Natchitoches Pentecostal Church. Fourteen days later, he was drafted in the U. S. Army and sent to El Paso, Texas for basic training. Brother Burns was discharged from the Army in 1958 and came back to Leesville and began teaching commerce at Leesville High School.

He worked thirty years in the Vernon Parish School System and retired as Superintendent of Schools in 1988. At the recommendation of Pastor M. C. Green, the First Pentecostal Church of Leesville elected him as Co-Pastor. Pastor Burns and his wife, Shirley "Kitty" Burns have two children and four grand-children. Sister Burns is a retired school teacher and is presently a manager with Home Interiors and Gifts.