Thank you Rev Dr. Juanita Pierre-Louis

Rev Dr. Juanita Pierre-Louis

Editor’s Note: The following article is based on an honorary message/tribute by Dr. Angelika Selle given at the monthly national chairwomen conference call on May 11, 2023.

Rev. Dr. Juanita first and foremost is a woman of deep heart and spirit. In 2010, when I became the WFWP USA President, I felt very strongly to invite and appoint her as our vice president. Why? We had worked together previously in racial reconciliation and had a common understanding of the need for this type of healing.

A few years later after Mrs. Katarina Connery was appointed as the vice president by Mother Moon, Rev. Juanita took the role of senior vice president and after that of a special advisor.

Over these many years, I came to know Rev Juanita, a woman of great spiritual gifts, who can see beyond what meets the physical eye, a quality which is very helpful and sometimes crucial when dealing with personal challenges or other difficulties we find on the path of peace leadership.

All of our ladies loved to hear Rev. Juanita speak or sing, as she always catches your attention, and most importantly catches your heart. As an extremely hard worker, she also introduced many high level women leaders to the Global Women’s Peace Network (GWPN) launch in New York and also represented WFWP very well on other platforms and organizations.

In particular, I would like to highlight a very moving public letter on behalf of WFWP USA right after George Floyd's death written by Rev. Juanita, which touched many and was talked about for weeks afterwards. Also, I would like to mention about a special, spirit filled and heart wrenching racial reconciliation ceremony, Rev Juanita and I both conducted in July 2019 between six caucasian and six black women in 2019.

Rev. Juanita’s passion has always been the Health and Healing Ministries, which she founded several years ago, being concerned about instructing women (and men) to take care of our physical bodies as well as spirits.

I personally have learned so much from Rev Juanita, and truly appreciated her internal support of ongoing prayer, love and wisdom. She would often come to our New York City office just to check in and see how everyone is doing, and cheer us on.

At this occasion, I would like to deeply thank you, Rev Juanita, for all her contributions to WFWP USA over three decades; your sacrifices, heart and love, visible and invisible. I am so very grateful for the foundation we were able to lay over the past 13 years together with our chairwomen and women leaders in the field—especially for the sake of the next generation. 

Thank you, Rev. Juanita, on behalf of so many others beyond WFWP who have benefited from her presence, investment and heart.

We wish you all the best in your next endeavors, as we know you will keep going onward and upward!