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Linda Gehman Peachey is a free-lance writer, living in Lancaster Pennsylvania. She has an Master of Divinity degree from AMBS and is currently a Doctor of Ministry student at Lancaster Theological Seminary. Previously, Linda worked for Mennonite Central Committee on women’s concerns and also served with her husband Titus as co-director of Peace and Justice […]
Ingrid Friesen Moser, MA, RD has degrees in both Christian Formation (AMBS) and Nutrition (Goshen College) and worked in the fields of dietetics and wellness for over 20 years. She is the author of Body Talk: Speaking the Words of Health (Living Stewardship Series, Herald Press 2007) and has been the wellness consultant for The […]
Glen Guyton is chief operating officer for Mennonite Church USA. The leadership education department at Duke University asks a good question: What’s the future of denominations? As a current denominational leader on an unsteady ship I probably think about this every single day and twice on Monday. As a former pastor I think, “Do I really […]
Mauricio Chenlo is denominational minister for church planting, a shared position of Mennonite Mission Network and Mennonite Church USA Executive Board. This summer in Kansas City, church planters, coaches and conference leaders from Pennsylvania to Florida, California to Oregon, met to share stories and encouragement, and to lay plans for a Mennonite Church USA church […]
Kelly Bates Oglesby is grateful to share life with her husband, Herman. She is lead pastor of Parkview Mennonite Church in Kokomo, Indiana. Kelly is committed to cultural competence, reconciliation ministry and pastoral care. Parkview Mennonite Church is comprised of a diverse array of people who trod different special paths to become part of […]
By Janie Beck Kreider (Mennonite Church USA)—For the past two years, a small group of Mennonite leaders has been gathering to reimagine the way Mennonite Church USA congregations practice communion based on the experiences and perspectives of victims of sexual abuse. This group grew out of a final project that Hilary Scarsella completed in 2012 […]
By Annette Brill Bergstresser ELKHART, Indiana (Mennonite Church USA)—Leaders of Mennonite Church USA’s Women in Leadership Project (WLP) met Aug. 5–8 in Sarasota, Florida, to plan the next steps for the project. Areas of focus include planning a second Women Doing Theology conference, creating an undoing sexism training, strengthening the project’s web presence and inviting […]
ELKHART, Indiana (Mennonite Church USA)—The Executive Committee (EC) of the Executive Board of Mennonite Church USA sent letters Aug. 4 to North Central Conference (NCC) of the Mennonite Church and Lancaster Mennonite Conference (LMC), expressing a commitment to pray for and stay in relationship with each of them even as the area conferences make decisions […]
ELKHART, Ind. (Mennonite Church USA)—The following first-term nominees for churchwide boards were affirmed July 1 during Mennonite Church USA’s June 30 – July 4, 2015, Delegate Assembly in Kansas City, Missouri. All terms are four years in length. David Boshart, Wellman, Iowa, moderator-elect (two years)/moderator (2 years), Executive Board Diane Zaerr Brenneman, Wellman, Iowa, Executive […]
Editor’s note: The Circle of Protection is a broad and diverse coalition of Christian leaders working together for help and opportunity for hungry and poor people in the United States and around the world. Ervin Stutzman, Mennonite Church USA executive director, and J. Ron Byler, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S. executive director, are part of […]
[English] Por Jenny Castro (Iglesia Menonita de EE. UU.) — En todas las convenciones de la Iglesia Menonita de EE. UU. se recibe una ofrenda para apoyar un ministerio o una iniciativa particular de la iglesia. Este verano, en Kansas City, quienes asistan a la convención tendrán la oportunidad de contribuir al Fondo de atención […]
[English] (Iglesia Menonita de EE. UU.)—La junta ejecutiva (JE) de la Iglesia Menonita de EE. UU. se reunió del 6 al 8 de abril en Kansas City, Misuri, para preparar la agenda que los delegados procesarán en la asamblea de delegados a realizarse en Kansas City este verano (30 de junio al 5 de julio), […]
[English] Por el personal de la Iglesia Menonita de EE. UU. NORTH NEWTON, Kansas—“Estamos aquí y hemos sido reunidos por Dios y también la verdad se reúne”, dijo Chuck Neufeld, ministro de la Conferencia Menonita Illinois, durante una sesión plenaria realizada en la reunión del Concilio de Líderes Constituyentes (CLC) de la Iglesia Menonita de […]
[English] Por Ardell Stauffer A veces, un día puede cambiarte la vida. En julio del 2013, los juveniles de la Iglesia Menonita de Walnut Hill, Goshen, Indiana, eligieron participar de un viaje de aprendizaje de jornada completa a la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México mientras asistían a la convención bienal de la Iglesia Menonita […]
[English] ¿Cuáles son los hechos básicos acerca de la inmigración en EE. UU.? ¿Quiénes son los involucrados? ¿Qué tiene la Biblia para decirles a los cristianos sobre la inmigración? ¿Qué rol podrían desempeñar los anabautistas en este desafío tan antiguo? El estudio bíblico de la Iglesia Menonita de EE. UU. sobre inmigración desmenuza estas y […]
By Janie Beck Kreider (Mennonite Church USA)—For the past two years, a small group of Mennonite leaders has been gathering to reimagine the way Mennonite Church USA congregations practice communion based on the experiences and perspectives of victims of sexual abuse. This group grew out of a final project that Hilary Scarsella completed in 2012 […]
Kelly Bates Oglesby is grateful to share life with her husband, Herman. She is lead pastor of Parkview Mennonite Church in Kokomo, Indiana. Kelly is committed to cultural competence, reconciliation ministry and pastoral care. Parkview Mennonite Church is comprised of a diverse array of people who trod different special paths to become part of […]
Jonathan Beachy of San Antonio, Texas, has spent a lifetime caring for and being enriched by persons society often rejects. Those persons have included special needs students in Texas, and prison inmates and indigenous persons in South America. As a volunteer with Interfaith Welcome Coalition he has seen the face of Jesus over and over in the […]
Asia Frye is a seminary student through the Connect program at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. She lives in Hillsboro, Kansas, with her husband and two daughters. Their family attends First Mennonite Church where Asia previously served as youth pastor before becoming a full-time student. She likes table top games, climbing, driving in the demo derby, […]
Born in New Orleans and raised a pacifist by Baptist hippies, Michael Howes married the first Mennonite he got to know, the Reverend Sue Conrad Howes, who is also a credentialed pastor in Mennonite Church USA. An unashamed nerd with a brain full of pop culture, Michael is intensely proud of his son who is […]
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