On May 18, 1969, Sunberg's father became the pastor of the Cambrian Park Church of the Nazarene in San Jose, California. īy May 1969, the Johnson family left West Germany and relocated to the US. (born September 21, 1953, in Spokane, Washington died March 10, 2009, in Idaho), who was adopted when five days old by Johnson and his wife Dennis Lane Johnson (born September 17, 1954, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho) and Kurt Eugene Johnson (born October 20, 1958, in Frankfurt, West Germany). Sunberg is the younger sister of the late Jerald DeWight Johnson, Jr. Jerald DeWight Johnson (born in Curtis, Nebraska, in 1927) and his wife Alice Eva Schmidt (born August 10, 1923, in Beiseker, Alberta, Canada), a Canadian of German parentage, who had been pioneer missionaries for the Church of the Nazarene in West Germany from March 1958 to May 1969. From 1992 to 2005, Sunberg was a global missionary for the Church of the Nazarene in the Commonwealth of Independent States.Ĭarla Dawn Johnson was born on July 1, 1961, in Bad Homburg, West Germany, as the fourth child and only daughter of Rev. Sunberg also served as the inaugural chairman of the USA/Canada Nazarene Women Clergy Council from February 2007 to June 2009. Sunberg is the only daughter of Jerald Johnson, the 24th General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene.įor almost four years, Sunberg was the President of the Wesleyan-Holiness Women Clergy International organization from May 2009 to April 2013. Dr Sunberg was elected the 43rd General Superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene on the 11th ballot by the delegates of the 29th General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene on June 27, 2017. 'Chuck' Sunberg) of the East Ohio District of the Church of the Nazarene, having served in this role since November 1, 2011. At the time of her election on January 3, 2014, Sunberg was co-District Superintendent (with her husband Charles H.

Sunberg (born July 1, 1961) is an American ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, administrator, academic, author, speaker and former missionary and registered nurse, who is the 2nd woman elected as a General Superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene,Īnd was the first woman and the 10th person elected as president of Nazarene Theological Seminary.

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