Biography
Pastor Joelle Henneman (she/her/hers) serves as the Senior Pastor of the United Methodist Church for All People. Her passion for ministry comes in widening the circle of God’s love to include all people. After a 20 year career in the Air Force, Joelle attended Brite Divinity School and served as a pastor in the Central Texas Conference. After graduation, she served as associate pastor of Central United Methodist Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico and founded Community of Hope–an outdoor worshiping community of housed and homeless people. Joelle moved to Columbus in 2015 in order to live in to a second calling of ministry with the poor. Initially, she served as Director of the Healthy Eating and Living program at Community Development for All People; and, has served on the pastoral staff since 2018. The United Methodist Church for All People grew out of the message of unconditional love and is an intentionally cross-class and multi-racial church. The church affirms that people of all ages, all races, all classes, all genders, all sexualities, and all abilities are loved by God just they way they are and God is not finished with any of us yet,
Justice Champion
Joelle serve as a leader of Faith in Public Life’s Interfaith Justice Table’s, the Ohio Progressive Faith Coalition, board member of the Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio, active leader in LoveBoldly, TransOhio, Trans Allies of Ohio, the Black Queer Intersectional Collective and is the co-chair of the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church’s Just Mission team.
Engaging Writer
Joelle is a published author who has written on a wide range of subjects from gender issues to military history to distance running. She served as an Air Force historian who received recognition eight times with the Excellence in History Programs Award and multiple Historical Publication Awards. As the United Methodist Student of the Year at Brite Divinity School she published two chapters in the book, “Institutional Change in Theological Education: A History of Brite Divinity School.” She has written hundreds of newspaper articles and is the author of this blog as well as Looked with Compassion and Perseverance Runner.
Dynamic Speaker
An in-demand speaker, Joelle has engaged thousands of people with hundreds of sermons, as a historian she spoke around the world from the Duxford Aviation Museum in England to an appearance on the History Channel’s Modern Marvels. As a social justice warrior, she has spoke at rallies and campaigns on a wide range of issues including homelessness, race, immigration, and LGBTQ+ issues.
Contact her at hennejoelle@gmail.com for writing, speaking, or advocacy opportunities.
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