Wesley White

Wesley White has been partnered/married with Brenda Smith White since 1972. He is father to two: Shai, daughter; Brandon, son; and grandfather to Nathan and Nicholas. Wesley grew up outside a small town in southern Wisconsin, went to a one-room country school, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a degree in Sociology. He served for 2 years in the Peace Corps in the Philippines. After returning to the United States, Wesley graduated with an M.Div. from Garrett...See more

Wesley White has been partnered/married with Brenda Smith White since 1972. He is father to two: Shai, daughter; Brandon, son; and grandfather to Nathan and Nicholas. Wesley grew up outside a small town in southern Wisconsin, went to a one-room country school, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a degree in Sociology. He served for 2 years in the Peace Corps in the Philippines. After returning to the United States, Wesley graduated with an M.Div. from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in 1971 and served in ordained ministry for 38 years before retiring. He is also a trained and registered Transitional Intentional Interim Ministry Specialist and has served three congregations in that role. Wesley has received recognition for work on inclusion from the Wisconsin Commission on the Role and Status of Women and other justice issues through the Perry Saito Award of the Wisconsin United Methodist Federation for Social Action. His current work is with LovePrevailsUMC.com to remove a false testimony within the church about the incompatibility of LGBTQQIAA persons and Christian teaching. See less