Rev. Esteen Tapp

Rev. Esteen Tapp is a long-time member of the Convent Avenue Baptist Church. A native of North Carolina, she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior at the age of eleven at the Chestnut Grove Baptist Church there. CABC Church became her Home Church through Christian experience as a young adult, and after twenty-five plus years as a Registered Nurse, her faith journey and Ministry continue today.

She holds a BS Degree in Nursing, from Hunter College, in NYC, a Master of Divinity Degree from New York Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry Degree from the same institution.

Her past Ministry includes teaching Fifth and Six grades in Sunday Church School, teaching adults in the CABC Hampton, Virginia Certificate Program, serving with the Health Committee, the Prison Ministry, and the Deaconess Board. Her Ministry has extended beyond the confines of the CABC and community all the way to East Africa, in Kampala, Uganda, where she spent twenty nine days in year 2000, preaching, teaching, and leading seminars to encourage men, women, boys, and girls with the Word of God throughout several villages and Churches. Currently, she is Founder/Executive Director of Angels of Mercy Prison Services, Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides services for men and women returning from incarceration. In obedience to God's instructions, she is simultaneously Founder/Pastor of A Second Chance In Christ Church, Inc., where she continues, by God's grace, to counteract the brokenness in the lives of His people and to offer them hope through Jesus Christ.

I am inspired and propelled by the Scripture, "I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me, and gave Himself for me." (Galations 2:20, KJV)