(Mrs., Honorable) Carol Allen White is a native of Edgecombe County, where she continues to reside with her husband of over 45 years  (Deacon) Robert E. White.  They are proud parents

of two adult children, a daughter in law, a son in law, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

Pastor Honorable White, heard the call to minister in 1992. She became a licensed minister in 1994, and she was ordained minister of the Pentecostal Holiness Gospel in 1999. Since 2004, she  has served as an Associate Minister in a local Baptist Church where she attended as a child with her mother, the late Arrillear Allen.  In 2015, she was called and led  to found Greater Is Coming Ministries, Inc., Interdenominational Church, in Sharpsburg, NC.,  where she currently serves as Senior Pastor.  She is founder of It Starts with U - Reentry Foundation. A nonprofit that provides supervision and coordination to citizens with an unfavorable criminal background or formerly incarcerated to help them reintegrate into the community as a law-abiding productive individual, to reduce recidivism and victimization, to restoration and victory. Honorable Pastor White has been humbled and honored to receive numerous community and leading lady awards.  Such as, in 2004 she received the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Citizenship Award. Also, 2004 she received the Princeville 119th Birthday Celebration Humanitarian Award from the oldest Town Chartered by Blacks in America. She is a 1975 graduate of South Edgecombe High School, Pinetops, NC., whereby she was a popular student that held different offices and honored with many awards by the student body, including being voted by her peers as Homecoming Queen herΩ Junior and Sophomore year.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology and a Minor in Public Administration from Shaw University, 2000. She was recognized to the Scholastic Hall of Fame Inductee, Shaw University Rocky Mount/Wilson CAPE "For Academic Excellence & Dedicated Services, 2002. She is also a graduate of North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership, Wilmington, N.C. In 1992, she received the North Carolina Office of State Personnel Awards for Fundamentals of Management Program.

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In 1989, as a public servant and as a citizen, while then residing in Princeville, NC (Edgecombe County) she heard the call to make a difference in her community so she announced her intentions to run for the State of North Carolina Clerk of Superior Court Judge of Probate  office.  History was in the making, she was dismissed from her job after serving in the role of deputy clerk for twelve years. But Honorable Pastor White kept her eyes on the prize, she officially filed for office in 1990 to run for the seat of Clerk of Court.  She won, and was the first African American and the first woman to be elected by the citizens in 1990 for the position in Edgecombe County.  But, she lost the re election bid  in 1994, however, she is resilient. By God's grace and mercy, she ran again for the seat in 1998 and was voted by the citizens to return to her first love as a career.  She is currently serving her seventh term in the elected position. She believes to be the first African American Woman to be elected by her colleagues by acclamation as the  President of the 100' NC Clerk of Superior Court Conference of Clerks, 2017-2018. Whereby she serves on the NC Clerks of Superior Court Executive Board, and many boards throughout her community and state. She hosts TV outreach ministry Greater Is Coming Ministries.  Pastor Honorable White is an all around humbled, compassionate and caring woman.  She has poured her love for God into helping others, a trait that she learned from watching her dear sweet mother caring heart.   Honorable Pastor White believes in the holistic approach of being balanced, healthy spiritually, mentally, socially, financially and physically, 3 John 1:2.  A woman of God whose message of love will transform your life from trauma to triumph if you are willing to receive and obey God's spoken WORD. Her message the preach WORD of God will transcend you  through denominational lines overcoming systematic racial barriers, age, gender, religion, nationality, culture ethnic group implicit bias. Pastor Honorable White speaks and exemplifies the heart and the lover of her SOUL, Jesus the Christ her Lord, Savior, and Friend, her EVERYTHING! I am, that I am by GOD's GRACE AND HIS MERCY.