About Pastor Linda

March 1, 1958, Linda (Coleman) Dabney was born to the union of the Late Wilson and Earline Coleman in Centralia, Illinois as the youngest of seven siblings (two deceased). After attending Lincoln Elementary School, graduating from Centralia High School, and attending Kaskaskia and Wabash Valley Colleges, she soon joined in marriage to Henry L. Dabney, June 28, 1980. They now have five children, ten grandchildren and one great grandchild. Dabney wears many hats with grace such as: wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, Pastor, Psalmist, minister of music and actress; just to name a few. While wearing many proverbial hats and fulfilling her calling here on earth, Dabney has also made great strides in volunteerism.

From babysitting as a teenager, teaching young children as a Head Start Teacher and caring for young children as the owner and operator of her home day care, Kids Under Construction, to encouraging men and women with unplanned pregnancies to choose life for the unborn as a matured woman, Dabney shows her love and concern for humanity and her desire to help mankind realize that God has a plan and purpose for their life. She began playing the piano by ear at the age of 4 and also plays the organ and keyboards. She has even ministered in song at many churches, weddings, funerals and other events in Centralia and surrounding communities. Dabney also performed as the character, Mabel, in the play ‘CROWNS’ which was presented by the Dramatists Play Service, Inc. of New York. The production is playwright Regina Taylor’s adaptation of the picture book “Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats” by photographer Michael Cunningham and journalist and Chicago native Craig Marberry. It is proven, Dabney is familiar with wearing many hats.  This production was performed at the Centralia Cultural Society in August of 2010.

In 1990, Dabney and her husband started a Bible study in their home which grew to about 70 in attendance. From The Dabney’s bible study, New Covenant Ministries Church was birthed. There, she was minister of music and a Sunday school teacher. In 1998, Dabney accepted the call of God to the Gospel ministry and began to preach the Gospel. She also founded Victorious Women’s Fellowship. She and her husband started a prison ministry in 1994 at the Vandalia, Robinson, Big Muddy and Centralia correctional centers. The ministry continues today. In 2006, she was ordained as a pastor and currently co-pastors New Covenant Ministries with her husband and is also administrator of International Covenant Ministries Inc., assisting her husband, who is Bishop over three churches. In 2013, she became the supervisor for the Centralia Correctional Center chapel choir and also performs wedding ceremonies for the inmates.

Through Dabney’s great strides, developments and efforts, it is apparent that she has a gift of giving. She gives genuinely from the heart and has done so for many decades as God allows. Since 2006, Dabney can now be found as the Clinic Director for the Pregnancy Care Clinic in Centralia, fulfilling her passion to encourage and meet the needs of the community.
For more information feel free to email Linda Dabney via LadyDabney@gmail.com