The Staff
Rev. Elizabeth Horton-Ware
Executive Director/Campus Pastor
Rev. Elizabeth Horton-Ware began as the Executive Director/Campus Pastor at the OU Wesley in June of 2022. Elizabeth has a deep sense of calling to serve in campus ministry and mentor and lead with college students. She comes to the OU Wesley with over a decade of campus ministry experience, including six years as Director of Religious Life at Oklahoma City University, where she oversaw The Wesley Center, United Methodist Campus Ministry. Before that, she served as Director of The Wesley Foundation at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, was in youth ministry, and served as an associate pastor in a local church.
Elizabeth is married to Eric Ware, a high school math teacher at Casady School in Oklahoma City. Eric is a 2003 graduate of The University of Oklahoma, where he studied Meteorology. (He also marched in the OU band!). Eric went on to earn a degree in Atmospheric Science from Cornell University. They have one daughter, Sadie Jane, a fourth-grader at Casady. A rescue dog named Mollie Bee (Mollie Bee Ware---please enjoy that joke) completes their family.
Elizabeth is a preacher’s kid and grew up in parsonages across Oklahoma, graduating high school from Miami. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Oklahoma City University in 2004. She went on to earn her Master of Divinity from Candler School of Theology at Emory University in 2007. Rev. Horton-Ware is an elder in The United Methodist Church ordained in 2011.
Rev. Fuxia Wang
Director of International Ministries
Fuxia grew up in mainland China as an atheist. She turned out to be an ABC (American Born Christian) while studying education at University of Central Oklahoma. She obtained a Master of Education with an emphasis in Teaching English as a Second Language from UCO and a Master of Divinity from International Theological Seminary in Los Angeles, California. She had served at the UCO Wesley and Edmond Chinese International UMC for 5 years before being appointed to serve at the OU Wesley in 2007. At the same time, God was leading her to serve as a Global Ministries missionary after being ordained as a full elder in the Oklahoma Annual Conference in 2010. She loves music and enjoys helping people apply everlasting truths of Scripture to their everyday lives.
Samantha Stoll
Associate Director
Samantha Stoll was born in Livingston, New Jersey. With nine years of church leadership experience, she is relocating from Tennessee, where she served as Youth and Children's Director at Loretto Methodist Church while completing her MA in Youth Ministry at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. She is a dog lover, and has a dog named Artemis.
Melinda Miles
Administrative Assistant
Melinda is a lifelong member of the United Methodist Church. As a “preacher’s kid”, she grew up in the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference and then as an adult joined the Oklahoma Conference. Within both conferences she has served in various positions of the local, district, conference, jurisdictional and general levels of the church.
Melinda is the mother of four awesome daughters and eight grandkids. She also has two fun loving four-legged, tail wagging fur babies. She is an avid OU sports fan and also follows her grandkids and nephew wherever they play basketball!
The Board of Directors
Armand McCoy- Chair
John Johnson- Vice Chair
Carrie Jankowski- Secretary
Melanie Moulton - Treasurer
Leasa Stewart- Chancellor
Kristi Carlson- Chair of Hospitality and Mission
Matt Marks- Chair of International Ministry
Scott Meier
Rev. Ashley Green-Young
Teresa Capps
Sarah French
Rev. Jeff Hinton