REVEREND JANICE L. FREDERICK-WATTS
Janice L. Frederick-Watts is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church.
At the 2008 Annual Conference Session of the South Carolina Annual Conference, she was appointed to serve the St. Mark-St. Matthew Charge in the Greenville District.
From 2002-2008, she served as the district superintendent of the Florence District in the South Carolina Annual Conference, with 99 churches and nearly twenty thousand United Methodists.
She has served as pastor for churches in the Orangeburg, Rock Hill, Marion and Hartsville districts. Within the general church, she has served on the Curriculum Resources Committee of the General Board of Discipleship and the General Commission on Christian Unity and Inter-religious Concerns. Other areas of service within the annual conference have included the Columbia College Board of Trustees, the Conference Committee on Congregational Development and the Committee on the Annual Conference.
She has written for the Upper Room Disciplines, the Upper Room devotional guide and Directions in Faith, a program guide for youth fellowships.
In the summers of 1999 and 2000, she was a study leader for the United Methodist Women’s School of Christian Mission.
Her educational achievements include an M. Div., (Master of Divinity) from Drew Theological School, Madison, New Jersey; an M.A.(Master of Arts) in Church and Community from Scarritt College for Christian Workers, Nashville, Tennessee; and an M.E.D. (Master Of Education of the Deaf) from Smith College, Clarke School for the Deaf, Northampton, Massachusetts and a B.A. degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology from South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
As a teacher of exceptional children, she has taught children in self-contained classes, educable mentally disabled and hearing impaired. At Claflin University, she was an instructor of developmental reading for college freshmen. In 1975, she became a Crusade Scholar.
