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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 Katherine Jameson Pitts is executive conference minister for Pacific Northwest...
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Jazmine Rivera is the administrative assistant for National Program at Mennonite Central Committee U.S. She is a full-time M.Div. student at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. As a single mother, she is intentional about spending time with her three girls and loves teaching them how to stand firm in their identity. Together, they attend Laurel Street Mennonite Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. When Jazmine is not involved in studies or work, she enjoys cooking, hiking, biking, skating and road trips with her girls. In 2017 I felt like I was walking in confusion, lies, alienation and anger constantly. I couldn’t tell if a...
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Melissa Florer-Bixler is pastor of Raleigh Mennonite Church. She earned an M.A. in Religion from Duke University and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Melissa is committed to the local church building power for local, systemic change as members of diverse coalitions. She is a board member of Friends of L’Arche North Carolina, a community for people with and without intellectual disabilities who share daily life. She is also on the steering committee for the Women in Leadership Project. Melissa and her spouse parent their three children in Durham, North Carolina. She is the author of a forthcoming book by Herald...
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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 Sarah Ann Bixler lives in Princeton, New Jersey and is...
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(Mennonite Church USA) – The five-person Journey Forward writing team -- Sarah Bixler (Princeton, New Jersey), Jon Carlson (Leola, Pennsylvania), Natalie Francisco (Chesapeake, Virginia), Jack Swaim (Boise, Idaho) and Isaac Villegas (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) met for the first time on Dec. 11-13 in Washington D.C. to begin their work with Journey Forward, a churchwide process to follow God’s calling for MC USA in the 21st century, and strengthen the church’s identity around broadly shared beliefs and goals. The...
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Rhoda Miller Blough lives in Denver, Colorado where she works as a Stewardship Consultant for Everence and is a member of Glennon Heights Mennonite Church. She is mom to two fierce daughters and grammy to two feisty grandsons who live right around the corner from her house. One of her passions is to help educate women about money and finances. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, reading, conversation and coffee with friends. The Advent season with its wonder and mystery is here and instead of my usual feelings of expectation and hope, this year I am finding myself crying...
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David Janzen completed a career of social work and human resources in 2011 and is living at a retirement community in Goshen, Indiana. He and his wife were among the founding members of Fellowship of Hope Mennonite Church and intentional community in Elkhart, Indiana. Dave has three sons and a daughter-in-law living nearby. His wife resides comfortably in a healthcare setting, and two of their sons live in group homes. David's post originally appeared on Opening Doors, Anabaptist Disabilities Network blog. Since advent means the approach of something important, it stirs our imagination to hope for a better life for...
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Kelly Shenk Koontz lives in Boston, Massachusetts with her husband Peter, where she is an associate with Isaacson, Miller, an executive search firm that works with nonprofit organizations. She currently attends the Mennonite Congregation of Boston. When I sit back and think about the past year, it could be easy to feel overwhelmed. Wars are raging, refugees are fleeing and political divisiveness has sprung up with new vigor. Yet despite the reality of the world around me, I am consumed by hope and excitement about the future, preoccupied by the fact that I am going to become a mother in the...
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This report initially appeared in The Mennonite. By Hannah Heinzekehr The Journey continues. Three weeks after Mennonite Church USA’s Executive Board (EB) approved plans to implement the Journey Forward, a two-year process building on the outcomes generated by the Future Church Summit process at the Orlando convention in July, the Constituency Leaders’ Council (CLC) of MC USA spent considerable time processing the plan and offering feedback. “Together we gather as people whose journeys are always beginning,” said Shannon Dycus, pastor of First Mennonite Church in Indianapolis and worship leader for CLC. “We gather together with hope, the kind of hope that pulses on through uncertainty.” After reading...
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We are a plugged-in society, and that’s not changing. Increasingly, our interaction is happening primarily through social media. In so many ways this is fantastic — our networks are bigger, we can stay in touch with so many people. But as communication and relationships shift to the digital sphere, how do integrate our real lives and online selves? How does faith inform our presence and interaction online? Malinda Elizabeth Berry lives in Elkhart, Indiana where she and her family are part of Fellowship of Hope Mennonite Church. She teaches theology and ethics at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and is a student...
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(Mennonite Church USA) — At its first meeting of the 2017-2019 biennium on Sept. 28-30 in Kansas City, Missouri, the Executive Board (EB) of Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) unanimously affirmed a new proposal outlining the next steps in a new, two-year visioning process called Journey Forward: Embracing God’s Hope for MC USA. Journey Forward grows out of the work of the Future Church Summit (FCS) body in Orlando, opening up the outcomes of that conversation to an even broader level of engagement across the church for testing and discernment. The proposal brought by MC USA staff included an initial...
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Melissa Florer-Bixler is pastor of Raleigh Mennonite Church. She earned an M.A. in Religion from Duke University and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Melissa is committed to the local church building power for local, systemic change as members of diverse coalitions. She is a board member of Friends of L’Arche North Carolina, a community for people with and without intellectual disabilities who share daily life. She is also on the steering committee for the Women in Leadership Project. Melissa and her spouse parent their three children in Durham, North Carolina. She is the author of a forthcoming book by Herald...
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Nancy Kauffmann is denominational minister for Mennonite Church USA. After every convention, our youth group at College Mennonite Church in Goshen, Indiana gives a report to the congregation. Each member of the youth group responds to three questions, one of which is, “Where did you see or experience God at work while at convention?” I enjoy hearing the responses. It causes me to reflect on where I have seen or experienced God at work recently. I am amazed how many stories I’ve encountered where at first, I had not given God credit, but then realized these were stories of God...
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by Erin Bradley for Mennonite Church USA Wednesday kicked off the first convention MennoTalk with a panel of five who paid tribute to 100 years of Mennonite women in the church. The five women discussed past personal and female accomplishments, struggles and celebrations. Alma Ovalle, who serves on the board of Mennonite Women USA, and Sarah Ann Bixler, coordinator of adult worship, spoke on women’s influence both on the conference and on others’ individual formation....
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