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r. Pastor Tamara Bennett has served as Senior Pastor of This Is Pentecost Fellowship Ministries since June 2000. It has two locations in Oakland and Sacramento, California. She and her husband Elder Quentin Bennett have helped around the world with prayer sessions, anointed revivals, youth conferences, multiple outreach services to the community and a worldwide virtual congregation. Her 501c3 organization, the Daughters of Zion Enterpryz, Inc., (DOZ), annually feeds, clothes, and houses over 9000 individual families. DOZ also provides housing, job training skills, and financial workshops for displaced young women seeking transformation and empowerment. Dr. Bennett’s greatest gift of all is being a loving mother to their four children and a supportive wife to her husband. Sac Cultural Hub Media Foundation was honored to have Dr. Bennett present as the Keynote Speaker at the 13th Annual EWOC Awards & Expo on September 28th. THE HUB: Dr. Bennett when you were a child (8 years old), did you ever think that you would be a pastor and speaking all over the world? Dr. BENNETT: Not at all. I was always in drama, from kindergarten to graduation. I always had my sights on public performance. I was steered more towards communication and commentating. In high school I won the Oratory State Championship. My dad was a pastor. I had pastoral roots, understanding and an example.
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TAMARA BENNETT RAISING THE NEXT GENERATION OF SONS AND DAUGHTERS By Contributing Writer, Donna Michele Ramos
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THE HUB: What kinds of advice do you have for young girls these days about body image especially with all that is displayed on social media. Lots of teenage girls are struggling with what they see on social media and some have fallen into depression and in some cases thinking of suicide. What are your thoughts on this? Dr. BENNETT: I tell my teenage daughters we love you and see who you are. We see and accept you. They are 15 and 16 not into make-up yet, still in braids. Nothing is sexier than confidence. See me, I love me and you are missing out on me. The earlier I help them to love who they are the better. The scripture says we are fearfully and wonderfully made. I don’t want to look like anybody else but who God made me to be. THE HUB: For the past close to 2 years now we have been in the Coronavirus pandemic. How has COVID-19 affected you professionally and personally? Dr. BENNETT: It made me more confident in a large way because it tried my faith, what I’ve been taught and minister about. If ever it was a time people need hope and healing it is during this pandemic. Our congregation is blessed, there have been no deaths. Professionally it made me bolder with my faith. God blessed our business in the middle of a pandemic. We were feeding 10,000 people a year and during
