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Rev. Dr. Sharon Ellis Davis is an ordained clergy of the United Church of Christ. She currently serves as Senior Pastor and Co-Founder of God Can Ministries (GCM), United Church of Christ located in the far south suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Sharon Ellis Davis is the Executive Director of GCM’s 501 c 3 outreach, The Dr. Sharon L. Ellis Education and Family Life Institute,” which provides educational opportunities that empowers families and strengthens the community.
Rev. Sharon Ellis Davis, served for 10 years at the Evergreen Park Ministries’ Care and Counseling Center (a shopping mall ministry), providing pastoral care for individuals and families.
Rev. Sharon Ellis Davis, served for 10 years at the Evergreen Park Ministries’ Care and Counseling Center (a shopping mall ministry), providing pastoral care for individuals and families.
Dr. Sharon Ellis Davis is a 31 year veteran Police Officer/Chaplain with the Chicago Police Department and just recently retired her position in May, 2010. Currently, she volunteers her services as Police Chaplain. In this capacity, Dr. Davis ministers with police officers and members of their family providing pastoral care and crisis ministry for officers who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty.
Dr. Davis is a trainer for the Faith Trust Institute for Clergy Boundaries and Sexual and Domestic Violence. She also serves on the faculty of McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, where she also is the Director for the Center for African American Ministries and Black Church Studies. As a Professor, Dr. Davis teaches Sexual and Domestic Violence, Pastoral Care with African Americans; and Pastoral Care in times of Crisis, among other selected courses. She is also a Faculty Mentor at the United Theological Seminary in Dayton Ohio. Her focus group for Doctor of Ministry Students is titled “The Peacemakers:
As a survivor of sexual and domestic violence, Dr. Davis combines her pastoral experiences, her abilities as a scholar, her law enforcement career, and her personal experiences to speak out against injustices, hold abusers accountable, educate clergy, and facilitate the healing, wholeness, restoration, and empowerment of God’s people.
Dr. Davis is a trainer for the Faith Trust Institute for Clergy Boundaries and Sexual and Domestic Violence. She also serves on the faculty of McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, where she also is the Director for the Center for African American Ministries and Black Church Studies. As a Professor, Dr. Davis teaches Sexual and Domestic Violence, Pastoral Care with African Americans; and Pastoral Care in times of Crisis, among other selected courses. She is also a Faculty Mentor at the United Theological Seminary in Dayton Ohio. Her focus group for Doctor of Ministry Students is titled “The Peacemakers:
As a survivor of sexual and domestic violence, Dr. Davis combines her pastoral experiences, her abilities as a scholar, her law enforcement career, and her personal experiences to speak out against injustices, hold abusers accountable, educate clergy, and facilitate the healing, wholeness, restoration, and empowerment of God’s people.
Educationally, Dr. Davis received her Ph.D. in Theology Ethics and the Human Science, 2006, from Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, Her dissertation was titled “Hear Our Cries” Breaking the Gender Entrapment of African American Battered Women.” She earned her Doctor of Ministry Degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois,1995. As part of her Doctor of Ministry project, Dr. Davis formed a church based Domestic Violence Ministry in a large membership church in Chicago, Illinois which remains active today. In addition, she earned her Master’s of Divinity Degree from Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois,1988; her B.A. Degree from Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois; and her A.A.S. Degree in “Law Enforcement” from Chicago City Wide College.