Joel Ferguson

Joel Ferguson is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pre-licensure Nursing at Indiana Wesleyan University. Joel grew up as a missionary kid in Peru, South America. He came to IWU as a college student, and graduated in 2009 with his BSN. Joel worked for several years in the ICU setting as an RN before returning to IWU to become a nurse practitioner, completing that program in 2015. In the year 2017 Joel felt the call to enter full time teaching, and has been full time faculty with nursing since then.

Joel also has a passion for medical missions, and regularly takes teams to the Amazon Jungles of Peru to serve the people there.

Joel lives in Pendleton, Indiana with his wife Rachel (also a nurse from IWU), and their daughters Naomi and Natalie.