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.·p~ESS
THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
DETROIT CONFERENCE HEADQUARTERS
DELEASE
COMMISSION ON PUBLIC RELATIONS
Conference Press Room
Adrian College
2111 WOODWARD AVENUE
DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48201
Phone 313/ 961-8340
By: Doug Olsen
June 4, 1975
Adrian, Michigan
Phone: (313) 263-0180
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE:
!he Rev. Juanita Jo Ferguson__was elected to Elder's Orders, and received
as a Full Member of The Detroit Annual Conference of The United Methodist
church, on Wednesday afternoon, June 4th, as the 134th consecutive annual session
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of the Conference began in Dawson Auditorium on the Campus of Adrian College,
Adrian, Michigan.
On Wednesday evening she was ordained an Elder in the United Methodist Church
by Bishop Dwight E. Loder, Resident Bishop of The Michigan Area of The United
Methodist Church.
Daughter of Mrs. Wanda Ferguson of Detroit, the Rev. Ms. Ferguson was
graduated from Cass Technical High School in Detroit .
She received a B.A. degree from Adrian College at Adrian, Michigan in 1965;
an Elementary Education Certificate from Wayne State University at De troit,
Michigan in 1968; and a M. Div. degree from Methodist Theological School in
Ohio, in Delaware, Ohio in June, 1974.
Recommended for a License to Preach by the Charge Conference of De troit
Jeffe rson Avenue United Me thodist Church i n 1961, the Rev. Ms. Ferguson was
e l e cted to Deacon's Orders by the Detroit Annual Conference in 1 972 and was
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received as a Probationary Member in The Detroit Conference in 1972 .
Elder's
Orders and Reception into Full Membership in an Annual Conference are the final
steps into the Ministry of The United Methodist Church.
The Rev. Ms. Ferguson has been reassigned to Springville United Methodist
Church, Springville, Michigan by Bishop Loder for the coming year.
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The Rev. Juanita J. Ferguson
will become the Detroit West District superintendent on June 16,
as announced this week by
Bishop Donald A. Ott. She will
succeed the Rev. Merton (Mike)
Seymour who is completing a sixyear term as district superintendent, and who will receive a new
appointment in June.
Juanita is presently serving as
an associate pastor at Birmingham First UMC, a position she
has held since June 1990.
THREE OF her previous five
appointments have been in the
Detroit metropolitan area, namely, Cass Avenue (associate); Ford
Memorial and Redford (senior
pastor) . She also served
Wellsville, and Springville
congregations.
Juanita was ordained an elder
and became a full member of the
Detroit Conference in 1975 following a required two-year probationary period . She is a graduate of
Adrian College 1965, B.A.; Wayne
State University 1967, M.Ed .; and
Methodist Theological School in
Ohio 1974, M.Div.
She is an avid Detroit Tigers
fan and a competitive ping pong
player. The Detroit Symphony and
Jazz concerts also provide areas
of interest and activity for Juanita.
IN MAKING this appointment,
Bishop Ott said: "Juanita is a
visionary and activist who will
bring to the superintendency of
the Metro Area the vital qualities
of credibility from her ministry
record and strength bome of a life
of prayer.
"Th~ district superintendency
comm1ttee urged me to appoint a
person who could do 'hard thinking that results in growing ministry' and one who would 'form
partnerships and other forms of
See WEST, page 2
Juanita FergusonoS
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Superintendent, Detroit West
Highly educated women are
most accepting of female
clergy, especially where these
...----~--, women have
been in the
professions
for a long
period of
time. They .
, are eager to ·
accept clergy
women.
Some of
the
most
problematic people have been
women who have not worked
outside the home. It takes the
blue collar churches longer to
warm up to a woman preacher,
but when they do, they work
very hard with them. At first
they say, "What has God/the
Bishop done to us? Why do we
deserve this?" With older,
long-established congregations
it's harder to accept a woman.
I wait for the day when I get
to follow a woman.
Ferguson, Juanita J.