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Active and Retired Women Ministers
Church in Ohio. Her responsibilities included ministry to students at Kettering College
of Medical Arts. In 1990 she began work on an MA in religion from Andrews
University Theological Seminary. During her year at Andrews, Kendra was associate
pastor for the All Nations Seventh-day Adventist Church in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
In 1991 Kendra was invited to join the pastoral staff of the Sligo Seventh-day
Adventist Church in Takoma Park, Maryland. Her specific responsibilities included
young adult ministries and worship planning. In January 1993 Kendra joined the
Religion Department at Columbia Union College, teaching courses to students
preparing for Adventist ministry and to those taking general education credits.
Experiences in both congregational and classroom ministry influenced Kendra’s
interest in the book of Revelation. She pursued these interests in a doctoral program at
the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, producing a dissertation entitled Worlds at War, Nations in Song: Dialogic Imagination and Moral Vision in the Hymns of
the Book of Revelation.
Following the completion of her doctoral degree, Kendra went to teach at La Sierra
University in Riverside, CA, in 2002.
A sixth-generation Adventist who cherishes her heritage, Kendra’s motivation and
hope for ministry are captured in Scripture’s final invitation: “The Spirit and the Bride
say, ‘Come.’ And let everyone who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let everyone who is thirsty
come. Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift’” (Revelation 22:17, NRSV).
Ibanez, Carmen
Carmen says, “I felt called to the ministry when I was about 15 years old.”
Her position is associate pastor at Azure Hills Church in California. In the past
Carmen has served as associate pastor at the Inland Spanish, Riverside Spanish, and
Loma Linda Spanish churches.
Carmen has baptized at least six candidates.
She is richly rewarded for her efforts in organizing Young Adult Church and
Children’s Church, as well as through one-to-one interactions.
A trial for Pastor Ibanez is lack of support and undermining by some Hispanic
members and pastors. How is God helping her to deal with this? For one thing, by
calling her to an “Anglo” church. “Besides, I have received much support from the
young adults that I was pastoring. Friends are God’s way of keeping me sane.”
Johnson, Brenda
Brenda Rogers was a student at Boston University who had “everything” in life
except peace and satisfaction when a young woman from Campus Crusade for Christ
shared about her own joyous relationship with Christ. Brenda that night welcomed the
invitation to accept the Savior into her own life.
“Almost immediately,” she says, “the only thing I wanted was to serve God in full
time ministry for the rest of my life whatever the cost.” She became a Campus Crusade

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