Bishop Sandra Steiner Ball to Give WVWC
Baccalaureate Address

BUCKHANNON, West Virginia – West Virginia Area Bishop Sandra Steiner Ball will give the address at the Baccalaureate Service for graduates. The ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 10 in Wesley Chapel. Following the Baccalaureate, will be the return of another Wesleyan tradition –  ice cream on the chapel oval lawn.

Steiner Ball is a graduate of Dickinson College and Duke Divinity School and earned her Doctorate of Ministry from Wesley Theological Seminary. She was ordained a deacon and elder in the Peninsula-Delaware Conference. Steiner Ball was elected to the episcopacy by the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference in 2012 and was assigned to the West Virginia Area. She has served on the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry’s Personnel and Policies Committee, Global Education and Ministry Committee, Audit and Review Subcommittee, and as the chairperson of the Division on Ministry.

Bishop Steiner Ball and her husband, The Rev. Barry D. Steiner Ball, have two daughters:  Sarah Elizabeth and Sandra Rebekah.

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West Virginia Wesleyan College (WVWC) is a private, four-year residential liberal arts and sciences college in Buckhannon, West Virginia. A tradition of excellence for more than 130 years, West Virginia Wesleyan is home to 14 Fulbright Scholars. The Princeton Review ranked Wesleyan as one of its 2023 Best Colleges in the Southeastern Region of the United States. U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-2023 Best College Rankings designated Wesleyan seventh in Best Value – Regional Universities (South). WVWC offers students nearly 60 majors and 40 minors; graduate programs in athletic training, business administration, creative writing, nursing and clinical mental health counseling; 20 NCAA Division II athletic programs; multiple performing arts groups; and more than 50 organizations. Founded in 1890, the College is closely affiliated with the United Methodist Church and abides by the Wesley doctrine that emphasizes service to others. For more information, visit wvwc.edu.