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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. Rod Stafford is the lead pastor of Portland (Oregon) Mennonite Church. He has also served congregations in Lawrence, Kansas and Pasadena, California. When he is not at the church he likes to ride his bikes, watch baseball and do the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle with his wife, Molly. Last...
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Iris de León-Hartshorn is associate executive director of Mennonite Church USA For the last nine years I have served as the North American representative on the Executive Committee (EC) of Mennonite World Conference (MWC). It has been both an honor and privilege and I am grateful for the opportunity to serve. Mennonite Church USA made this possible by supporting my nomination and appointment the entire nine years, allowing me to represent MC USA on the General Council. So, I am thankful. These last nine years have been a time of learning and engaging with so many people. I’ve been able...
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Kim, SeongHan lives in Chuncheon, South Korea, with his wife HaeYoung and two daughters. They attend Jesus Heart Mennonite Church. They were Goshen residence and attended College Mennonite Church while SeongHan was a doctoral student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. SeongHan is working as a regional director for Korea InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. I am a child of war refugees, the grandson of internally displaced people. My parents were born near the Korea-China border, at the corner of the north-west Korean peninsula. After more than 35 years of colonization under Imperial Japan and our liberation in August 1945, suddenly the United States and the...
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Charissa Zehr is legislative associate for International Affairs at the MCC U.S. Washington Office. This article was adapted from a previous article on Third Way Café. Last year I had the rare opportunity to visit to visit Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK/North Korea) with several other Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) staff. I was eager to take part in the visit and see the country firsthand. But I also wondered how we would be received as U.S. citizens, given the tense history between our countries. Although the enmity between U.S. and North Korean political leaders was palpable at the time,...
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Karen Spicher shares life together with Peace Building Community in Namyangju, Korea. Karen’s roles include raising three daughters, homeschooling and serving on the admin team for Northeast Asia Regional Peacebuilding Institute (NARPI). She is a member of Grace and Peace Mennonite Church, Namyangju, South Korea. For some background on tensions in the Korean Peninsula, see an article Karen and her husband Jae Young Lee wrote during the PyeongChang Winter Olympics: What might reconciliation in North and South Korea look like? Tell us how you got involved in peacemaking work in Korea. One of my deepest learning experiences in university was...
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Joy Yoon and her family have been working and living in North Korea for over a decade. Their work inside began through humanitarian outreach and social entrepreneurship. Today they focus on treating children with developmental disabilities through a Rehabilitation Center in the capital city. They are among a select few Americans to have lived long-term inside North Korea. The summer I was 15 years old, my family attended the global convention for our denomination which happened every four years. The speaker was the first missionary from our church to South Korea. What he said or how he said it, I...
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This post originally appeared on TheMennonite.org. Sheldon C. Good conducted and edited this seven question interview. You can read past seven question interviews online. Name: Glen Guyton Role: Executive director of Mennonite Church USA 1. What is one fun or interesting fact about yourself? I love cooking and comedy. Before I graduated from high school, I had two dreams: open up a restaurant and do stand up comedy. I don’t think I have fully given up on those dreams yet. I did own a coffee shop once, and people think I have a good sense of humor. I think my wife appreciates my cooking...
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(Mennonite Church USA) — An installation for Glen Guyton as the incoming executive director of Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) will take place on Saturday, August 18, 2018, 2-4 p.m. at College Mennonite Church in Goshen, Indiana. All are invited to attend. “The installation of Glen will be historic,” said Iris de León-Hartshorn, planning committee member and associate executive director for Operations for MC USA. “Glen joined the Mennonite family because of his commitment to Anabaptist theology. If I’m not mistaken, he is the first African-American and non-ethnic Mennonite (Swiss, German, Prussia) person appointed to this role.” Guyton begins...
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Glen Guyton is incoming executive director of Mennonite Church USA. One of the first emails that I received after being named executive director said, “Perhaps you will be one of the persons God will use to help rescue MC USA.” My response was, “One thing I promise you is that I won’t be the one to rescue MC USA, but I do hope that God will use me to share the gospel and inspire people to live out their call. I will let Christ be our savior, and I will do what I can to uphold my end of the...
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By MC USA Communications staff, with Sheldon C. Good of The Mennonite and Paul Schrag of Mennonite World Review (Mennonite Church USA) — The MC USA Executive Board (EB) and Constituency Leaders Council (CLC) met for joint meetings on April 11-14 at Dock Mennonite Academy, Lansdale, Pennsylvania. Shannon Dycus led worship based on materials for Journey Forward, the two-year process of...
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(Mennonite Church USA) — Members of Mennonite Church (MC) USA Executive Board organized a retirement program and reception to recognize and thank Ervin Stutzman for his service to the denomination on Friday, April 13, at the joint meetings of the Executive Board and Constituency Leaders Council at Dock Mennonite Academy, Lansdale, Pennsylvania. Members of the public also attended. The ceremony, led by EB member Diane Zaerr Brenneman, began with a slideshow displaying photos and comments collected from people across MC USA...
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Ervin Stutzman will end his term as executive director of Mennonite Church USA on April 30. Sometimes I ask myself, was it “worth it” for me to give such a large chunk of my life to the vision of church unity embodied in the group we call MC USA? In 1995, I was dubious about the prospects for a merger that would hold all parts of the church together. I essentially agree with what George R. Brunk III wrote in 1988, that: An Anabaptist–Mennonite perspective would point to living fellowship more than an institutional structure as the essential concern of...
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Mennonite Church USA is building upon the work of the Future Church Summit at #MennoCon17 in Orlando. A dynamic group of writers has been called together to produce a concise description of MC USA’s shared values and guiding theological foundations. We’re calling this process Journey Forward. Over the next few weeks, the Menno Snapshots blog will be featuring interviews with the Journey Forward Writing Team and Reference Council, giving you a peek into the diverse life and faith experiences that are coming together in this moment in MC USA’s history. Hyun Hur is co-director of ReconciliAsian, a peace center in Los Angeles...
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Mennonite Church USA is building upon the work of the Future Church Summit at #MennoCon17 in Orlando. A dynamic group of writers has been called together to produce a concise description of MC USA’s shared values and guiding theological foundations. We’re calling this process Journey Forward. Over the next few weeks, the Menno Snapshots blog will be featuring interviews with the Journey Forward Writing Team and Reference Council, giving you a peek into the diverse life and faith experiences that are coming together in this moment in MC USA’s history. Stephen Kriss is executive minister for Franconia Conference. He is...
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Mariah Martin lives with her husband in Harrisonburg, Virginia and works as a nurse on an intermediate care unit. She enjoys good conversation, cooking and anything outdoors. In the future, she hopes to pursue a career as a nurse midwife and eventually work overseas. Death. We don’t like to talk about it. The word itself has a negative connotation, sometimes. At a recent funeral service I attended, death was even referred to as “the enemy.” We avoid it at great emotional and financial cost; we deny it as long as we can; we fight it until the last breath. Yet it...
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