Nina G. Gunter | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1937 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Religious leader/author |
Nina G. Gunter (born 1937) is a minister and former general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.
She was the first woman elected to the Church of the Nazarene's highest elected office. Gunter was ordained in 1960 on the Joplin, Missouri (USA) District of the Church of the Nazarene by Hugh C Benner.
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The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged from the 19th-century Holiness movement in North America. With its members commonly referred to as Nazarenes, it is the largest Wesleyan-holiness denomination in the world.
Trevecca Nazarene University (TNU) is a private Christian liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1901.
Nazarene Theological Seminary (NTS) is a Nazarene seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. The seminary was established by the Eleventh General Assembly in June 1944 and started its first school year in 1945 with 61 students. It moved to its current location in 1950. The seminary offers master's degrees in Divinity, Christian Education, Intercultural Studies, and Theological Studies as well as a Doctor of Ministry degree and non-degree programs.
Phineas F. Bresee was the primary founder of the Church of the Nazarene, and founding president of Point Loma Nazarene University.
General Superintendent is the highest elected office within the Church of the Nazarene. General Superintendents are elected by the General Assembly of the denomination for a four-year term to expire at the end of the next General Assembly.
General Superintendent can refer to:
Jerry D. Porter is a minister and general superintendent emeritus in the Church of the Nazarene.
Hiram F. Reynolds (1854-1938) was a minister and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.
Edgar Painter Ellyson (1869–1954) was a minister, theologian, and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.
Orval John Nease (1891–1950) was a minister, Nazarene General Superintendent, and president of Pasadena College. He was the brother of Floyd W. Nease, also a Nazarene college president.
Hugh C. Benner (1899–1975) was a minister and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene. He started the history department at the Eastern Nazarene College in 1921, and Benner Hall and Benner Library on the campus of Olivet Nazarene University are named after him. Dr. Benner was born near Marion, Ohio. Dr. Benner was ordained in 1923 by Nazarene General Superintendent Roy T. Williams. After serving the Church as a college professor and later as a pastor at Santa Monica, California; Spokane, Washington; and Kansas City First Church, Dr. Benner was elected the first president of the Nazarene Theological Seminary in 1944. He was elected general superintendent in 1952 and served in this position until retirement in 1968. He was general superintendent emeritus until his death in 1975 in Leawood, Kansas.
W. Talmadge Johnson is a minister and emeritus general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.
Paul G. Cunningham was a minister and general superintendent emeritus in the Church of the Nazarene.
J. K. Warrick is a minister and general superintendent emeritus in the Church of the Nazarene.
Eugenio Duarte is an ordained minister and 37th General Superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene. Born in Cape Verde, Duarte was the first African and the first non-North American elected to the General Superintendency in the Church of the Nazarene. His election occurred in the centenary year of the denomination. Duarte was elected June 30, 2009 at the 27th General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene.
Stan A. Toler was a minister and general superintendent emeritus in the Church of the Nazarene. He was also an author having written 100 books, many of them published through the Nazarene Publishing House. He served as a Pastor in Ohio, Florida, Tennessee and Oklahoma.
David Busic is an ordained minister and 40th general superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene, the denomination's highest elected office. He was elected on June 25, 2013, at the 28th General Assembly and Conventions in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Carla D. Sunberg is an American ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, administrator, academic, author, speaker and former missionary and registered nurse, who is the 2nd woman elected as a General Superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene, and was the first woman and the 10th person elected as president of Nazarene Theological Seminary. At the time of her election on January 3, 2014, Sunberg was co-District Superintendent of the East Ohio District of the Church of the Nazarene, having served in this role since November 1, 2011. Dr Sunberg was elected the 43rd General Superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene on the 11th ballot by the delegates of the 29th General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene on June 27, 2017. Sunberg is the only daughter of Jerald Johnson, the 24th General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene.
David W. Graves is an American educator and theologian who serves as a General Superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.