Elmira I. Sellu
Leader for "The Beauty and Courage of Sudan"
Elmira I. Sellu is a missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church assigned as a Regional Missionary with Women, Children and Youth and is based Kampala, Uganda. She is also coordinator for the GBGM Leadership Development for Women’s Programs in the East Africa Annual Conference.
Mrs. Sellu works with women and children in the East Africa Annual Conference, which comprises five countries: Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, and Sudan.
Elmira has been coordinator of Leadership Development for Women in the East Africa Annual Conference since 1999. Previously, she was coordinator for United Methodist Women in Sierra Leone from 1993-1999. She was associate Lay Leader for the Sierra Leone Annual Conference from 1996-1998 and was Lay Leader of King Memorial United Methodist Church (where she continues to hold church membership). From 1988- 1992, she served as secretary of the King Memorial United Methodist Women.
She earned a diploma in women’s leadership in 1994 from the Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation in Kitwe, Zambia and certification as a ‘higher teacher’ in 1975 from Milton Margai Teacher’s College in Sierra Leone. Elmira is married to Abraham Kai Sellu and they have three children.