Mrs. Ava Sennetta-Brown Green
Episcopal Supervisor, Fifteenth Episcopal District

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Mrs. Ava Sennetta-Brown Green was born in Fernandina Beach, Florida, reared in Historic Yulee and attended the public schools of Nassau County Florida. Mrs. Green is a graduate of the University of South Florida (BA), Nova Southeastern University (MS) and a candidate for the doctoral degree in education.

As the wife of Bishop Samuel Lawrence Green, Sr., she is the Episcopal Supervisor for the 15th Episcopal District, including Cape, S.W.A., Nambia, Kalahari, Eastern Cape and Queenstown. The couple are the proud parents of three sons, Samuel Lawrence, Jr. Adam Scott and Stephen Avare’.

Mrs. Green has been employed as a teacher, curriculum specialist and program director in the public schools of Nassau, Pinellas and Orange counties and Valencia Community College. Presently, she is an assistant principal at Discovery Middle School in Orlando, Florida.

Through productive ministry the family has been blessed to faithfully serve three congregations in African Methodism: Mt. Zion, Green Cove Springs, Fl; Greater Mt. Zion, St. Petersburg, Fl; and St. Mark, Orlando, FL. At Greater Mt. Zion, Mrs. Green was instrumental in organizing the Daughters of Sarah Allen, to recruit and retain young women ages 20-35 in the local missionary society; and develop Big Sisters, a mentoring program for teen girls in the community. Among other initiatives, she has served the Women’s Missionary Society as Chairperson of the Christian Social Relations; and Chairperson for the Assault on Illiteracy for the Central Florida Conference. In December 2004, Mrs. Green was robed by the 15th Episcopal District Women's Missionary Society.