Potomac Pastor Receives Award

The Association of Adventist Women (AAW) recently awarded Griselda Jobe the 2025 Junia Award for pioneering work in rural pastoral ministry. She is the lead pastor of Potomac Conference’s Martinsville and Piney Forest churches in Virginia.

“Griselda Jobe received the Junia Award for pioneering work as one of a few ordained female lead pastors in a rural multi-church district in the North American Division,” states Nerida Bates, president of AAW.

In 2010, Jobes became a Seventh-day Adventist and felt God’s call to ministry, so taking a leap of faith, she studied at Southwestern Adventist University (Texas) and earned a degree in Theology in 2019.

She is the co-leader of AAW’s Latin American women’s theologians group.