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• Africa, Senegal- Karen Ujereh-Missionary

Karen Johnson Ujereh, missionary with the Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church, is serving as Mission Interpreter in Residence (MIIR) with the North Central Jurisdiction (Midwest).

Mission Interpreters in Residence are United Methodist missionaries assigned to serve in the U.S. jurisdictions to interpret the mission of the United Methodist Church through the Board of Global Ministries, particularly as it relates to mission personnel and their support through the Advance for Christ and his Church with annual conferences, districts and local churches.

A native of New Orleans, Karen holds a B.S. degree in accounting from Southern University in New Orleans. Before going to Senegal, she served as Area Financial Executive in Harare, Zimbabwe for more than two years, working with the Zimbabwe Annual Conference. Prior to that, she served the same post in Lubumbashi, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), working with the North Shaba and Southern Zaire Conferences. She was head of the accounting and finance department and, earlier, a lecturer at Plateau State Polytechnic. She also was an accountant for the First Homestead Savings and Loan Association.

Karen and husband Sebastine, a native of Nigeria who also served as a UM missionary, have three adult children: Jessica, born in New Orleans, and Sebastine, Jr. and Laura, who were both born in Nigeria. Karen is a lifelong member of Bethany United Methodist Church in New Orleans.

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