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An ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church served as Senior Pastor of First United Methodist Church of Waukegan, located in Waukegan, Illinois for over four (4) years. In response to “the Call” to Ministry, Dr. Morgan attended Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary where she received a Masters of Divinity Degree in 2001. She was a James A. Stein Scholar and a recipient of this scholarship for three consecutive years. She attended and was enrolled at Chicago Theological Seminary in the PhD Program in Philosophy. She received her Doctorate in Ministry Degree from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio in 2006. Dr. Morgan has also served as Senior Pastor at Sherman United Methodist Church in Evanston, Illinois for four (4) years; Associate Pastor at St. Mark United Methodist Church in Chicago, Illinois for seven (7) years; Senior Pastor at New Gresham United Methodist Church in Chicago, Illinois for seven (7) years; Assistant Pastor at St. Mark United Methodist Church for two (2) years; and Senior Pastor at Greenstone United Methodist Church for one (1) year; totally close to 25 years of faithful service.

In her field education, Dr. Morgan has served as a Chaplain with the Evanston Police Department. She is an active committee member of the clergy associations entitled Evanston Own It and Interfaith Action for Education, servicing the homeless in the community. Dr. Morgan has served as an Advisory Council board member of Kairos Outside Prison Ministry, which is an international prison ministry that addresses the spiritual needs of incarcerated men, women and children; as well as their family members and to those who work in the prison environment. She has also served as a member of Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL), which is a grassroots, not-for-profit, independent, multi-issue power organization which addresses community issues in Chicago.

Dr. Morgan has served as Chaplain at Northwestern Hospital and the Mather Foundation in Evanston, Illinois. She has traveled abroad to Israel, Greece and Africa in cross-culture missions studies and has studied the places of the Bible in the interpretation of Holy Scripture. She has engaged in foreign missions work in South Africa where she has ministered and helped to finance the ministry in the fight against HIV/AIDS of two evangelical churches in the townships of Guguletu and Khayelitsha. She has attended the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Cape Town, South Africa that involved the religions of the world in the pursuit of world peace.

Her course of study and interests pertain to women in ministry and liberation theology. Her work expounds on the ministry of Jesus Christ and how liberation theology fits into the context of Christ’s ministry. Her ministry has stretched to many far-away lands, seeking dialogue and liberation for the marginalized and oppressed. Her theology is that we serve a God of the oppressed; that suffering knows no class, cultural or geographical boundaries, that wherever you find suffering, you will find the Lord Jesus Christ.