# Judy Mbugua

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{{short description|Ordained Preacher (born 1947)}}
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| name   = Judy Wanjiru Mbugua
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| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1947|11|09|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [Kenya](/source/Kenya)
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| occupation                = Ordained preacher
| years_active              = 1991–present
| citizenship               = Kenya
| known_for                 = Evangelism
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| title                     = Chair at Pan African Christian Women Alliance 
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'''Judy Wanjiru Mbugua''' (born 9 November 1947) is chair of the Pan African [Christian](/source/Christianity) Women Alliance (PACWA) and founder of the Kenyan Ladies Home Care Fellowship (LHCF). A member of the Nairobi [Pentecostal Church](/source/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](/source/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](/source/baptized), becoming a member of the Nairobi [Pentecostal Church](/source/Pentecostal_Church).<ref name=dacb/><ref name="Ngunjiri2010"/>

Mbugua resigned from her insurance job and, together with other Christian women, founded the [interdenominational](/source/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](/source/Evangelicals) in Africa, held in [Lusaka](/source/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](/source/Christian_ministry), and has supported the [traditional family](/source/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==
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==External links==
* [https://hyperleap.com/topic/Judy_Mbugua/ Judy Mbugua] at Hyperleap

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Category:1947 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Nairobi
Category:Women Christian clergy
Category:Kenyan Pentecostal pastors

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