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Sue Park-Hur is denominational minister of Leadership Development for MC USA. Recently, world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed at the U.S.-Mexico border city of Laredo, Texas. The Paris-born Chinese-American artist chose to play at a public park located next to the Juarez-Lincoln International Bridge, one of the crossings that connect the U.S. and Mexican cities. With the thousand-foot bridge in the background, Ma played the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, mesmerizing the audience and reminding everyone that border is where prophetic imagination is birthed. "I've lived my life at the borders. Between cultures. Between disciplines. Between musics. Between generations ... In...
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Journey Forward is Mennonite Church USA’s churchwide renewal process of engaging in Scripture, storytelling and sharing how God is at work in the lives of people and congregations across MC USA. Its purpose is for us to renew our local and denominationwide identity and affirm our core beliefs as we live out the mission to which God calls us as the church. It is a process, not a conclusion. The process invites you to connect how you’re living God’s call to broader church mission and draws our attention to how the Living Word is moving in our midst. The Renewed Commitments concisely name...
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By Sheldon C. Good and Janie Beck Kreider In its final in-person meeting before MennoCon19 in July, the Mennonite Church USA Executive Board took several actions, including accepting terms related to the release of The Mennonite, Inc. (TMI), as a churchwide program entity of MC USA. The EB’s action to accept the terms passed unanimously. The EB met March 31 to April 2 in Kansas City, Missouri, also the site of MennoCon19,...
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Zachary Martinez is the pastor of Sojourn Mennonite Church in Fort Collins and Greeley, Colorado. He lives with his family in Greeley, where he likes to garden, ride his bike and patronize local breweries and coffee shops. His work has appeared in The Mennonite, the Sun Magazine, and other publications. I didn’t initially accept a call to plant a church. When the opportunity arose, I was only a year into my first call as pastor of Sojourn Mennonite Church in Fort Collins, Colorado. Sojourn itself was still a young church plant, and I was only at a quarter FTE. This seemed like...
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Joy Cotchen lives in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and attends Stahl Mennonite Church. She serves as minister for children and youth for Allegheny Mennonite Conference, and also works as a laboratory technician at a local hospital. In her spare time she likes to walk, be outdoors and spend time with her four grandchildren. Joy is on the worship planning committee for MennoCon19. Get Excited!! Spring is just around the corner, when you live in western Pennsylvania, thoughts of warmer weather and no snow are things to get excited about. Also heating up is registration to MennoCon19. Registration is open, get excited! I...
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Glen Guyton is executive director of Mennonite Church USA. I recently spent five days in my former home conference, Virginia Mennonite. I had quite the hectic schedule: two chapels at Eastern Mennonite School, an evening lecture, lunch with credentialed leaders, breakfast with youth leaders, a meeting with EMU president, Susan Huxman, a high school musical, a visit to see our Communications director’s newborn baby, and finally Sunday School and preaching Sunday service at Immanuel Mennonite. Former MC USA Executive Director Ervin Stutzman looked so rested when I met him and his wife Bonnie for lunch one afternoon. He gets to...
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Glen Guyton is executive director of Mennonite Church USA. Join us for #MennoCon19 to help shape your church and programs which allow us to fulfill our vision of healing and hope. It sometimes seems the people on the outside of our denomination value our ministry programs more those who make up MC USA. I regularly receive questions from those leaving or who have left MC USA wondering how they can still participate in our programs. As part of our vision, MC USA still provides many ministry services to non-members and other denominations. But the members of MC USA play an...
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This post is part of our Joureny Forward series. We’ve invited folks from across Mennonite Church USA to reflect on our Journey Forward and consider how they’ve seen Renewed Commitments at work in their lives, their congregation or community. If you’d like to contribute to this series by highlighting stories that bring our shared values to life, email JenniferC@MennoniteUSA.org. Stephen Kriss is executive minister for Franconia Conference. He is a member of Philadelphia Praise Center. I grew up watching Sesame Street in the 70s. It’s where I first heard Spanish, and through the diversity of people and characters in an urbanish context, I began to glimpse the...
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By Kayla Berkey ELKHART, Indiana (Mennonite Church USA) — “Wipe away all tears for the dawn draws near, and the world is about to turn.” Over 200 people from across North America filled the Chapel of the Sermon of the Mount with these lyrics, singing and dancing the “Canticle of the Turning” at the third biennial Women Doing Theology (WDT) conference. The conference, which took place Nov. 8-10,...
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This post is part of our Joureny Forward series. We’ve invited folks from across Mennonite Church USA to reflect on our Journey Forward and consider how they’ve seen Renewed Commitments at work in their lives, their congregation or community. If you’d like to contribute to this series by highlighting stories that bring our shared values to life, email JenniferC@MennoniteUSA.org. David Boshart is moderator of Mennonite Church USA. I am looking forward to MennoCon19 to see where the Journey Forward has brought us from Orlando to Kansas City. The Renewed Commitments that came out of the Future Church Summit are a gift to us. In these words,...
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Over the next few months we’ve invited folks from across Mennonite Church USA to reflect on our Journey Forward and consider how they’ve seen Renewed Commitments at work in their lives, their congregation or community. If you’d like to contribute to this series by highlighting stories that bring our shared values to life, email JenniferC@MennoniteUSA.org. Marta Castillo is a leadership minister for Intercultural Formation in Franconia Conference. The daughter of Franconia Conference-rooted mission workers, she has been shaped by all four of the linguistic cultures in Franconia Conference growing up in both Vietnam and Indonesia. While being a primary English speaker she lives in a bilingual...
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ELK GROVE, Illinois (Mennonite Church USA) — “You all are the leaders of MC USA. You are the hands and feet in this denomination,” said Glen Guyton, executive director of MC USA to the October 11-13 meeting of the Constituency Leaders Council (CLC). The question of how MC USA leaders can help the church to...
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Over the next few months we’ve invited folks from across Mennonite Church USA to reflect on our Journey Forward and consider how they’ve seen Renewed Commitments at work in their lives, their congregation or community. If you’d like to contribute to this series by highlighting stories that bring our shared values to life, email JenniferC@MennoniteUSA.org. Terry Zehr grew up in northern New York State and has lived there most of his life. He is married to Lisa (30 years) with whom they raised three fine sons. Terry has been a pastor and...
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Over the next few months we’ve invited folks from across Mennonite Church USA to reflect on our Journey Forward and consider how they’ve seen Renewed Commitments at work in their lives, their congregation or community. If you’d like to contribute to this series by highlighting stories that bring our shared values to life, email JenniferC@MennoniteUSA.org. Chris Barghout is a member of Portland Mennonite Church. He is a first generation American from Swiss Mennonite and Palestinian roots. Pop the champagne! It’s what you might hear when a long or not so long married couple decide to celebrate by renewing their commitments to each other. Every couple has...
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