Debie Songer
District Ministerial Studies Director
Debie Songer has always loved Kingdom work, growing up in the church, as was evidenced through her teaching God’s word in Sunday School as a High School Student, when her grandmother sent her a card with Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.” She continued on, spending most of her life teaching God’s word to every age group through many different traditional as well as creative means.
She earned a BA in Communicative Arts from Point Loma Nazarene University and her teaching credential and an M.A. from Cal State Bakersfield. Debie then taught in private and public schools for 20 years, while serving with her husband, all the while she couldn’t get away a sense of calling and the desire to serve Christ and His church.
After accepting the fact that she was called to ministry, realizing it was alright for a pastor’s spouse to respond to the call, she came to love and appreciate our church more deeply during her studies toward ordination. Through her theology courses, she became more deeply aware that Wesleyan Holiness Theology brought the entire Word of God into alignment as the truth which points humanity toward life with Jesus Christ and truly impassioned the desire she had since high school for others to enter the kingdom of God.
Debie still has a deep desire that “none be lost” and to assist our ministers in becoming well prepared to serve effectively in the work of the Kingdom of God.