Wanda J. Burnside is an award-winning writer, author and poet.
In 1995, Wanda founded Write the Vision Ministries and Media Productions International. Over the years, she has founded ten outreach ministries for the hurting and for the needs of women, men, children and youth.
Wanda has written: twelve books, sixteen plays, over a thousand poems, numerous articles, and devotional messages. She is a contributing author to nearly eighty books and other publications. Her anointed gospel tracts have been distributed across the United States, Canada, Africa, Italy, Honduras, and around the world.
Wanda is the founder and publisher of The Lamp Newsletter International. In 2008, she founded The Lamp Newsletter International. Wanda has a staff of writers in the USA, the UK-London, England and Australia. Wanda feels sincerely blessed to be the publisher of this newsletter.
God has bestowed on Wanda to be a church executive administrator and ministry leader since 1958. She joined The Called and Ready Writers in 1999 founded by Dr. Mary Darlene Edwards. Wanda was appointed the vice president of this Christian writers’ guild in 2001 and became the president of the guild in 2004. Since 2016, she has been the Host of RESTORE! RESTORE! Radio Outreach Ministry. In 2019, she was appointed the publisher and editor of the Business and Professional Women’s Federation newsletter of the Church of God in Christ, Inc. Mother Bonnie McPeak is the national president of this organization.
Wanda graduated from the University of Detroit in 1972. She has a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and certified in Early Education. She taught K-7 grades in The Detroit Public Schools and Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy. Wanda is certified in various Christian ministries from The Detroit Bible School, William Tyndale Bible School, Bishop J. S. Bailey Bible Institute, and C. H. Mason Bible School of the Church of God in Christ, Inc. Wanda is a lifelong member of Greater Miller Memorial Church of God in Christ in Warren, Michigan. In 1972, Wanda married Mr. Simmie Lee Burnside, Jr.
