Women in Ministry | Church of the Nazarene Presence in the Great Lakes Megaregion 1900-2014

7/30/2015

In the Great Lakes Megaregion,
7% of Nazarene pastors are female
97 out of 1,418 pastors (2014)

50% of female pastors
have been at their churches
since 2011

Longest tenure: 1985
Rev. Debora L. Ferch White, ordained in 1988
Sheldon Church of the Nazarene (Chicago Central)

Largest worship attendance with a female pastor:
350
Plattsburgh Church of the Nazarene (Upstate New York)
Rev. Rebecca Lum, co-pastor

Four churches with female pastors average more than 100 in worship attendance

Median worship attendance with a female pastor
33

Women in Ministry Infograph

Great Lakes Megaregion Map

Source: www.america2050.org (click image)

2 Comments

James Franklin

7/31/2015 06:25:11 am

You are living the dream I had almost 50 years ago. After an undergraduate degree at NNU I took a Master's degree in Geography at the University of Idaho. After which I was appointed to the faculty at SNU where my assignment was to start a Geography Department. I then pursued a doctorate in Geography at the University of Oklahoma. My personal goal was to use my growing body of knowledge and understanding to further the cause of missions in the Church of the Nazarene locally, regionally and internationally. I did serve for 3 years as principal and social studies teacher at Sun Valley Indian School, now Native American Christian Academy. I am now rather infirm at 78 but would like to keep in touch with you and your efforts to do what I dreamed about so many years ago.

David Perry link

10/26/2015 01:19:05 pm

Rebecca Lum is now the Pastor at Plattsburgh Church of the Nazarene. The average attendance is 368. I am one of her associate pastors who happened to come across this website.