In 1978, Linda Turner founded her own company, and after 10 years sold the business to a national chain.

An accomplished public speaker, she has facilitated workshops and seminars on “Grass Roots Leadership and “Developing Leadership in Business/Volunteer Organizations” for the Governor’s Commission on Small Business, Orange County Community Development Center and Saddleback College.

Linda also has a strong background in volunteerism and has been president and served on the board of numerous non-profit organizations and was chosen as one of America’s Outstanding Young Women in 1983.

Having studied Religious Science first under Reverend Peggy Bassett in the mid-1980s, Rev. Linda became a licensed Practitioner and in 2003 received her ministerial credentials.

Her first ministerial position was as the Assistant Minister at the Pacific Center for Positive Living in Lake Forest.

After leaving Pacific Center, she became an independent minister with the Emerson New Thought Outreach Center; A Church Without Walls and came to Spirit of Life Church in March, 2006.

Reverend Linda’s vision for her ministry is to enable people to come into realization of the Divine within them, to celebrate the truly unique expression of God that they are, and to support and guide them on their joyful journey of spiritual evolvement.