{"id":23795,"date":"2024-06-18T08:57:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/?p=23795"},"modified":"2024-06-20T08:31:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T13:31:13","slug":"pastoral-ministry-sheila-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/pastoral-ministry-sheila-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading in Ministry, Empowering the Community, and Praising the Lord: the Rev. Dr. Sheila Johnson (Hunt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>At Pittsburgh Theological Seminary&#8217;s 2024 Alumnae\/i Days gathering, four alums were honored for their work and recognized as this year&#8217;s distinguished alumnae\/i or received The Fred Rogers Award for Creative Ministry. In this blog series, meet these alums and discover the ways in which they serve God and neighbor in their communities and across the nation. The 2024 Distinguished Alumna in Pastoral Ministry is the Rev. Dr. Sheila Johnson (Hunt) &#8217;10.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2024 Distinguished Alumna in Pastoral Ministry: the Rev. Dr. Sheila Johnson (Hunt)<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23875 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-1-850x638.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Rev. Dr. Sheila Johnson (Hunt) \u201910 is an ordained Baptist minister, accomplished songwriter\/arranger, choral conductor, recording artist, professor, nonprofit leader, and mentor. She is the executive pastor and minister of music at First Baptist Church of Penn Hills and currently serves as the president of the Baptist Ministers\u2019 Conference of Pittsburgh and Vicinity\u2014the first woman to hold that role.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23873\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23873 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-speaking-Alumni-Days-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-speaking-Alumni-Days-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-speaking-Alumni-Days-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-speaking-Alumni-Days-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-speaking-Alumni-Days-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-speaking-Alumni-Days-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-speaking-Alumni-Days-850x1133.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-Johnson-speaking-Alumni-Days-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheila at PTS Alumnae\/i Days, April 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Sheila has served in leadership roles at several institutions of higher education, including professor, department chair, and division head, as well as mentoring students in<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\"> United Theological Seminary&#8217;s &#8220;A Generational Approach for Today\u2019s Urban Ministry in the Next Normal&#8221; Doctor of Ministry group. Her work with women is known throughout Greater Pittsburgh and across Pennsylvania. During her 14-year leadership of the New Choices\/New Options Program at the Community College of Allegheny County, she assisted more than 1,500 women in crises to become emotionally and economically self-sufficient. This success was lauded throughout the state by politicians, educators, and social service professionals, and in 2018 the <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\"><em>New Pittsburgh Courier<\/em> <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">recognized her as one of its \u201cWomen of Excellence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Sheila earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in music and an M.A. in counseling from Western Kentucky University, a Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Pittsburgh, and a D.Min. with urban emphasis from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23874\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23874 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-and-James-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-and-James-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-and-James-768x898.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-and-James-300x351.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sheila-and-James.jpg 787w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Dr. Sheila Johnson (Hunt) and the Rev. James E. Hunt. The Hunt family has pastored at First Baptist Church of Penn Hills for more than 30 years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Sheila\u2019s ministry includes preaching, teaching, and facilitating at workshops, conferences, and revivals in the U.S. and abroad. She also serves as the senior manager of special projects for Western Penn Hills Community Action Inc., where she develops rites of passage, career counseling, job readiness programs, a youth fine arts festival, and summer employment for community teens. Sheila and her husband, the Rev. James E. Hunt, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Penn Hills, Pa., are the first Pittsburgh-area clergy couple of the Allegheny Union Baptist Association (AUBA) in which the pastor\u2019s wife is an ordained minister. They also are the first clergy couple in an African American Baptist church in Pittsburgh and vicinity in which the wife of the senior pastor was elected by the congregation as the executive pastor.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23799\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23799\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23799 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lift-Your-Hands-album-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lift-Your-Hands-album-cover.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Lift-Your-Hands-album-cover-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheila&#8217;s musical recordings include singles &#8220;Freedom&#8221; and &#8220;Lift Your Hands and Praise the Lord&#8221; and albums &#8220;Move with God&#8221; and &#8220;Resurrection.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">As a musician, Sheila is known throughout the nation and around the world. In 2018, her eighth recording\u2014a single entitled \u201cFreedom\u201d\u2014debuted at #9 on the <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">Billboard <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Hot Single Sales Chart and held the #1 slot for four consecutive weeks on the international radio chart in England, Nigeria, Sweden, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. She has served as a conductor, director, and composer\/arranger in residence for numerous citywide, university, and convention choirs, appeared a number of times on <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">Bobby Jones Gospel<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">, toured in Europe, and is a former member of the national faculty of the Gospel Music Workshop of America. Her sound draws on a number of styles, including gospel, rap, choral, anthem, folk, Negro Spiritual, and ballad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Sheila and access her music on her personal webpage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drsheilaljohnson.com\/\">https:\/\/www.drsheilaljohnson.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the Doctor of Ministry program at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/doctor-of-ministry\">https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/doctor-of-ministry<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Read Next<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23336\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/category\/ministry\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23336 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ministry-thumbnail-kids-scaled-e1716305763718-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/category\/ministry\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ministry-thumbnail-kids-scaled-e1716305763718-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ministry-thumbnail-kids-scaled-e1716305763718-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ministry-thumbnail-kids-scaled-e1716305763718-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ministry-thumbnail-kids-scaled-e1716305763718-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ministry-thumbnail-kids-scaled-e1716305763718-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ministry-thumbnail-kids-scaled-e1716305763718-850x567.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blog Posts on Ministry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22869\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/category\/social-work\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22869 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/social-work-scaled-e1714679628159-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/category\/social-work\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/social-work-scaled-e1714679628159-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/social-work-scaled-e1714679628159-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/social-work-scaled-e1714679628159-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/social-work-scaled-e1714679628159-1536x896.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/social-work-scaled-e1714679628159-2048x1194.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/social-work-scaled-e1714679628159-850x496.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blog Posts on Social Work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Pittsburgh Theological Seminary&#8217;s 2024 Alumnae\/i Days gathering, four alums were honored for their work and recognized as this year&#8217;s distinguished alumnae\/i or received The Fred Rogers Award for Creative Ministry. 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