Melanie Johnson, MDiv
Melanie Johnson, M.A., is a Compassion-Centered Spiritual Health Fellow and Chaplain for Critical and Palliative Care and Staff Support at Emory Decatur Hospital. She is an ordained Minister of Word and Service in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Melanie Johnson is a Compassion-Centered Spiritual Health Fellow and Chaplain for Critical and Palliative Care and Staff Support at Emory Decatur Hospital. She is an ordained Minister of Word and Service in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Art History from Vanderbilt University, a Master of Arts degree in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary and did Lutheran Studies for ordination at United Lutheran Seminary. Melanie has lived out her diaconal vocation by accompanying, and equipping others to accompany, people on the margins of society through ministries of hospitality, compassion, and justice, often in multi-cultural settings. After many years of both community-based and congregational ministry, Melanie discerned a call to accompany people at the margins of crisis and end of life through spiritual care. She trained for chaplaincy during the Covid pandemic completing a CPE internship with the Training and Counseling Center at St. Luke's and a CPE residency at Northside Hospital in Atlanta. Melanie loves spending time with family, walking and hiking, reading, and creating mandalas from a variety of mediums. She has a passion for spiritual growth and is a trained spiritual director and an associate of the Greenbough community, an ecumenical house of prayer, where she has been going on silent retreats for over twenty years and living out the Greenbough rule in daily life. Melanie and her spouse Mark live in Decatur, Georgia and have two young adult sons.