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Active and Retired Women Ministers
Kit is the only woman to have been a member of all the official Seventh-day Adventist
commissions set up to study the women's ordination issue in 1973, 1985, 1988, and
1989. Looking beyond herself, she is greatly concerned that other women's gifts be used
fully in the Lord's work.
White, Jan
Jan White is Associate Pastor for Nurture and Outreach in the Calhoun, Georgia,
Seventh-day Adventist Church. She was the first woman to be commissioned as a
minister in the Georgia-Cumberland Conference, in 2003. Her husband, Phil White, is
the senior pastor in Calhoun, making theirs a team ministry.
Previously Pastor White has served as Women’s Ministries Director and Family
Ministries Director for the Washington Conference and has been associate pastor in
North Cascade and Auburn Adventist Academy churches.
“Since a child I have had a passion for Jesus,” Jan recalls, “and when teaching after
graduating from college I had the privilege of preparing my first person for baptism.”
Jan has a BA in Religion from Walla Walla College and an MA in Religion from
Andrews University.
Pastor Jan White enjoys many aspects of ministerial work, including visitation of both
active and inactive members, small group Bible study, preaching, and prayer groups.
She has spoken for Jesus around the world, including holding an evangelistic series in
the Philippines with a women’s ministries team. What a thrill when more than 400
were baptized! Jan modestly shares credit with the local people, saying that they did
most of the preparation work for the series.
In the United States Jan’s influence is experienced widely as she speaks at women’s
retreats.
At time of this writing, Pastor White has baptized more than 20 candidates.
Williams, Hyveth
Hyveth Williams has been senior pastor of the Loma Linda Hill Seventh-day
Adventist Church in Loma Linda, California since 1996. Five associate pastors work
with her in a comprehensive, energetic program.
Previously Ms. Williams pastored the Boston Temple Seventh-day Adventist Church.
It was a challenging assignment. The historic structure had fallen into such deplorable
disrepair that the conference was thinking about selling it. Attendance had dropped to
around 50. There had been no pastor for 18 months when Hyveth, after praying
earnestly, in 1989 accepted the challenge to minister to the declining church.
Pastor Williams set to work with characteristic energy and asked for prayers. People
came back to church; students from colleges and universities in the area attended.
Hyveth loved and inspired them for Jesus. Members and friends donated and labored to
repair the broken pews and the leaking roof, replace the aging carpet, and paint walls.

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