TYNA T. DUNCAN ON "UNFINISHED BUSINESS"

WORDS OF WISDOM....

Life is a collage of beginnings and endings that run together like still-wet paint. Yet before we can begin any new phase in life, we must sometimes first achieve closure to the current stage we are in. That's because many of life's experiences call for closure. Often, we cannot see the significance of an event or importance of a lesson until we have reached closure. Or, we may have completed a certain phase in life or path of learning and want to honor that ending. It is this sense of completion that frees us to open the door to new beginnings. Closure serves to tie up or sever loose ends, quiets the mind even when questions have been left unanswered, signifies the end of an experience, and acknowledges that a change has taken place.

The period of completion, rather than being just an act of finality, is also one of transition. When we seek closure, what we really want is an understanding of what has happened and an opportunity to derive what lessons we can from an experience. Without closure, there is no resolution and we are left to grieve, relive old memories to the point of frustration, or remain forever connected to people from our past. A sense of completion regarding a situation may also result when we accept that we have done our best. If you can't officially achieve closure with someone, you can create completion by participating in a closure ritual. Write a farewell letter to that person and then burn your note during a ceremony. This ritual allows you to consciously honor and appreciate what has taken place between you and release the experience so you can move forward.

Closure can help you let go of feelings of anger or uncertainty regarding your past even as you honor your experience - whether good or bad - as a necessary step on your life's path. Closure allows you to emotionally lay to rest issues and feelings that may be weighing down your spirit. When you create closure, you affirm that you have done what was needed, are wiser because of your experience, and are ready for whatever life wants to bring you next, Tyna T. Duncan!!

TYNA T. DUNCAN..“A Woman of Strength, Compassion and Faith”

“A Woman of Strength, Compassion and Faith”

Tyna T. Duncan, the daughter of the late Reverend Curtis F. and Hattie Davis, was born in Springfield, Ohio. She has two sons, Ernest III and Jeremy Alan and one grandson, Jeremy Alan, II. She currently resides in Smyrna, Georgia.

An anointed musician, vocalist, and recording artist, Evangelist Duncan began singing at the age of two at Highlight Baptist Church, Pastored by her father. Evangelist Duncan accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior in 1972. Some years later, she accepted the call to the ministry as an Evangelist. She traveled extensively, evangelizing for eight years before becoming the Founder and Senior Pastor of Testament Worship Center, Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Evangelist Duncan was Senior Pastor for over 10 years.

Tyna has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration, with minors in Special Education and Finance. She has attended many training classes and has earned certificates in Church Growth, Evangelism and Church Administration from the Charles E. Fuller Institute of Church Growth and Evangelism.

Evangelism and outreach have been a hallmark of Duncan’s Ministry. She has founded several outreach ministries including: Testament Women’s Ministries, Testament Men’s Fellowship, In Touch, Inc., Destiny 2000, and Testament Kids.




Currently, Rev. Tyna T. Duncan is birthing a powerful and surely to be an effective organization called NAWM (The National Association of Women Ministers, Inc.). The mission of NAWM is to teach, train, and mentor women functioning at all levels of Christian Ministry and to provide the crucial support that better ensures satisfaction and longevity of service.

Evangelist Duncan sees her nurturing spirit as her greatest strength. Her role as a mother to her two sons and surrogate mother to many others is the cornerstone of her life and the framework from which her many other roles flourish.

A gifted entrepreneur, Tyna has established and previously owned several day care centers, as well as an agency for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled. She has previously owned and established The Eden House, a home for mentally challenged women.

Pastor Tyna T. Duncan is an anointed and powerful preacher and gifted teacher of the Word with a heart for the people of God and a desire to see God’s people become all that He created them to be in Christ. Many lives have been changed, and many souls saved as a result of her ministry.

She is a visionary, whose desire is simply to please God and to reach out to help improve our community. When asked where she sees herself in the next five years, she replies “Wherever God leads me; I’ve learned to take the limits off God.”

Time did as times does....

Excerpts from "Totally Overwhelmed", Author Tyna T. Duncan


Time did as time does. It came and it went. After my workday and evening activities were complete, I delighted in being able to cuddle up in bed under my down comforter watching Hill Street Blues. Shortly after midnight, my telephone rang. Not quite yet asleep, I rolled over, turned on the light, and reached for the telephone not knowing that the moment I answered that phone call I stirred up my life’s winds, triggering the first phase of the whirlwind of 9-1-1 situations that were about to occur in my life.

I answered the phone. It was, Michael, one of my spiritual sons and members of TWC. Without acknowledging the lateness of the hour, he asked me if I had received a series of pages throughout the day. His tone suggested the obvious, something was wrong. Taking a moment to reposition myself in bed, and inwardly admit I probably shouldn’t have ignored the pages in the manner in which I did, I responded.“Yes.”

Knowing how I am with phone calls and pages, he didn’t bother to ask me why I hadn’t responded to the pages. He simply, yet emphatically insisted I call the seven digit number that had so frequently appeared on my pager immediately. After agreeing to do so, I hit the off button with my right thumb, hanging up the phone. Now sitting up on the edge of my bed, I leaned over and picked up my pager from off the nightstand. Hitting the down arrow on the face pad, I scrolled through the numbers until I reached the number unrecognizable to me before that day. I starred at the pager in my left hand and the telephone in my right. All kinds of thoughts rushed through my mind as to what this person wanted. Beginning to feel a bit anxious I coached myself into making the call. It was 12:18 AM when I made the call.

The phone rang twice and then there was that brief moment of silence. (The moment that separates the time when the phone rings from the time the person on the receiving end answer’s the call.) She cleared her throat and then said hello. It was at that moment – the moment I heard her voice filter through my phone receiver that the quiet wings of change ruffled its feathers and abruptly altered life as I knew it.

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I am requesting everyones prayers for the "Totally Overwhelmed" book project's success.

Tyna T. Duncan

Experience has taught me ...

HERE ARE SOME EXCERPTS FROM MY NEW BOOK, "TOTALLY OVERWHELMED" TYNA T. DUNCAN

Experience has taught me that God carefully orchestrates the inevitable events in our lives to shape us into His divine people in order to live out his perfect will for our lives. I find it amazing that we often live our lives not fully understanding His will. We live our lives feeling as though things are going according to plan until a devastating situation, situation’s I’d like to refer to as “9-1-1 situations,” happens. With the onset of such a situation, we eagerly question the decisions we’ve made sometimes thinking their the cause of those 9-1-1 situations. We question our position with God. It’s amazing to me that one phone call, one conversation, one trip, one visit, can alter what we think God’s plan for our life is. It’s amazing to me, yet it happens. I know it happens because it happened to me.
I knew towards the end of 1996 things in my life were changing. I had worked the previous 12 years on building my life. The various storms I survived, both spiritual and natural, shaped my life, creating the comfortable place I called my home. I was never lost in my triumph because of the winds of life that circled around me. Even during their quiet times, these winds served as a reminder of where I had been as well as what I had been through. Towards the end of 1996, life as I knew it was becoming less and less comfortable for me. The winds in my life had awakened and were beginning to blow. Past experiences made this feeling memorable. I recognized it and knew my life was on the verge of changing. I didn’t know how or when it was going to happen, I just knew that it would. And it did.

TYNA T. DUNCAN IS MY NAME AND THIS IS THE START OF MY JOURNEY!