{{short description|Ordained Preacher (born 1947)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Judy Wanjiru Mbugua | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|11|09|df=yes}} | birth_place = Kenya | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = | occupation = Ordained preacher | years_active = 1991–present | citizenship = Kenya | known_for = Evangelism | networth = | title = Chair at Pan African Christian Women Alliance }}
'''Judy Wanjiru Mbugua''' (born 9 November 1947) is chair of the Pan African Christian Women Alliance (PACWA) and founder of the Kenyan Ladies Home Care Fellowship (LHCF). A member of the Nairobi Pentecostal Church, she was ordained in 1991.<ref name=dacb>{{cite web|url=http://www.dacb.org/stories/kenya/mbugua_judy.html|title=Mbugua, Judy Wanjiru|author=Manana, Francis|publisher=Dictionary of African Christian Biography|year=2000|accessdate=10 December 2015 |language=}}</ref><ref name="Ngunjiri2010">{{cite book|last=Ngunjiri|first=Faith Wambura|title=Women's Spiritual Leadership in Africa: Tempered Radicals and Critical Servant Leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ikfru3xCQE8C&pg=PA5|year=2010|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-2978-6|pages=43–}}</ref>
==Biography== Born in central Kenya to middle-class parents, Mbugua dropped out of school when she was 16 and became pregnant. She married Richard Mbugua two years later. She completed high school through a correspondence course, and was trained as a secretary. She then worked in insurance. In 1974, she was baptized, becoming a member of the Nairobi Pentecostal Church.<ref name=dacb/><ref name="Ngunjiri2010"/>
Mbugua resigned from her insurance job and, together with other Christian women, founded the interdenominational Ladies Home Care Fellowship, which was registered in 1985. As a result of her success,<ref>Art Matters, 27 Oct 2013, [https://artmatters.info/2013/10/how-judy-mbugua-rose-from-zero-to-hero/ This Woman Rose from Zero to Hero]</ref> in 1987 she was elected continental coordinator of the Pan African Christian Women Alliance at the fifth General Assembly of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa, held in Lusaka, Zambia. She was ordained by Bishop Kitonga in 1991.<ref name=dacb/>
Mbugua has since campaigned for the place of women in the Christian ministry, and has supported the traditional family unit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faithfood.net/index.php/faqs/478|title=Rev. (Dr) Judy Mbugua|publisher=Women of Faith Magazine|date=March 2010|accessdate=10 December 2015 |language=}}</ref>
==Selected works== *{{cite book|last=Mbugua|first=Judy|title=Making a Difference: Christian Women and Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5MSfAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Association of Evangelicals}} *{{cite book|last=Mbugua|first=Judy|title=Our time has come|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zxTkAAAAMAAJ|date=1994|publisher=Published on behalf of the World Evangelical Fellowship by Baker Book House|isbn=978-0-85364-525-2}} *{{cite book|last1=Mbugua|first1=Judy|last2=Kisuke|first2=Connie|title=Judy - A Second Chance: She Refused to Give Up|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rrQkAAAACAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Authentic Media|isbn=978-1-85078-337-4}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://hyperleap.com/topic/Judy_Mbugua/ Judy Mbugua] at Hyperleap
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