The Seminary honored Jean Stultz with the third annual World Mission Initiative Outstanding Mission Service and Support Award during the annual McClure Lectures.
Jean’s service and support in mission go far beyond her role in World Mission Initiative from 2007-2011. Jean’s mission service began as a young woman as she was sent by special appointment of the United Presbyterian Church to the American Mission Hospital in Tanta, Egypt, in 1955 just after graduating from Westminster College. After four years of service there, she returned and briefly served the Wallace Memorial Church, but her heart was in Egypt. She was sent for another three-year term to serve in the Schutz American School for missionary kids in Alexandria, Egypt.
After a short stint working for Passavant Hospital, Jean went to work at the YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh. For 30 years she served in various capacities: as program director for teens in the South Hills, as center director in Wilkinsburg, and as program manager in the North Center. Jean’s work centered on leadership for women and girls, advocating for their needs. She resigned from this work to initiate the North Hills Affordable Housing in 1995 and worked as secretary for Benedictine Place, housing for single mothers and children.
Additionally, Jean has served on the following Boards: North Hills Community Outreach, North Hills Youth Ministry (renamed ANCHORPOINT), North Hills Affordable Housing and Benedictine Place (Renamed HEARTH), Action-Housing Inc., Sister’s Place Inc., Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, Asian Women’s Institute, Pittsburgh Cluster, Zonta International, New Wilmington Mission Conference, and the Seminary’s World Mission Initiative.
She is an elder at Northmont United Presbyterian Church, served a term as Clerk of Session, and worked on the Peacemaking and Mission Committees. She is also a Stephen Minister and serves actively with Presbyterian Women both at Northmont Church and Pittsburgh Presbytery.
The World Mission Initiative, dedicated to developing mission vision, nurturing missionary vocations, and cultivating missional congregations, equips students for global mission. It also supports, educates, and encourages congregations, and its ongoing mission conference is the centerpiece of that work.