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This post is part of the MennoCon23 #BeTransformed series. MennoCon23 will be held in Kansas City, Missouri, July 3-6. Hugo Saucedo is an elementary school principal in San Antonio, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Danielle, and two kids. Hugo has been volunteering at convention since the 2003 convention in Atlanta, Georgia, and has served in a number of capacities. Hugo enjoys live music, traveling and sampling local cuisine. ______________________________ The first convention I attended was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1993. I was 16 years old, when my youth group drove from Brownsville, Texas, to Philadelphia. In spite of the long drive, the memories I made...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Rachel Ringenberg Miller serves as denominational minister for ministerial leadership for Mennonite Church USA. She focuses on engaging conferences and congregations, providing resources and services to meet the diverse demands facing congregations today. She graduated from Goshen (Indiana) College and Eastern Mennonite Seminary, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, with an MDiv. She served as associate pastor for Portland (Oregon) Mennonite Church and as pastor of Shalom Mennonite Church in Newton, Kansas. ______________________________________________ Pastoral transitions are a natural part of congregational life. At some point, your pastor will leave. They will leave for...
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This post is part of the MennoCon23 #BeTransformed series. MennoCon23 will be held in Kansas City, Missouri, July 3-6. Becky Degan serves as the associate pastor of worship and Christian education at Forest Hills Mennonite Church in Leola, Pennsylvania. In her free time, she accompanies a community choir and directs middle and high school plays. Before beginning her current position at Forest Hills in 2006, she worked for 10 years as a music therapist for children with special needs. Becky holds a bachelor’s degree in music therapy from Elizabethtown (Pennsylvania) College and is currently working toward a Master of Arts in Christian...
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This post is part of MC USA’s #BeTransformed series. Republished with permission from Leader magazine, a publication of MennoMedia. MennoMedia is the publishing agency of Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. Leer en español aquí. Ertell M. Whigham is an associate pastor of Nueva Vida Norristown (Pennsylvania) New Life Mennonite Church and an Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) administrator, trainer and consultant. He enjoys spending time with his family — wife Patricia, three adult children and six grandchildren — and playing the alto saxophone. _________________________________ The Bible has several examples of God changing or updating the name or descriptor of God’s servants...
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This post is part of MC USA's #BeTransformed series. It was originally published in the Central District Conference Connector. Shared with permission. The Sacred Listening Project is an ongoing project of Central District Conference, in which congregations hold a one-day event that provides an opportunity for congregants to share their stories about their church experience with one another and with representatives of the conference. These stories are intended to reflect how congregants and congregations have encountered transformation through the COVID-19 pandemic, welcoming/affirming LGBTQ+ siblings, and national issues dealing with justice, culture, power, creation care, immigration, and race. [caption id="attachment_71719" align="alignleft"...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz is Mennonite Church USA’s denominational minister for Peace and Justice. For more than 25 years, she served as the coordinator of Mennonite Central Committee’s Restorative Justice program. She also co-authored “The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools” and “What Will Happen to Me?” Lorraine graduated from Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, with a bachelor’s degree in Social Work, and earned a master’s in Social Work from Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania. She and her husband attend Blossom Hill Mennonite Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. _________________________________ In his book, “Forty...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Rachel Ringenberg Miller serves as denominational minister for ministerial leadership for Mennonite Church USA. She focuses on engaging conferences and congregations, providing resources and services to meet the diverse demands facing congregations today. She graduated from Goshen (Indiana) College and Eastern Mennonite Seminary, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, with an MDiv. She served as associate pastor for Portland (Oregon) Mennonite Church and as pastor of Shalom Mennonite Church in Newton, Kansas. She is a member of Shalom Mennonite Church in Newton, Kansas. ______________________________________________ I stare at the open U-Haul trailer. The trailer...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. This post was originally published on A Light So Lovely. Reprinted with permission. Melissa Marquez Weaver is a former English/ESL teacher who lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where she cares for her husband and three young children, more pets than they planned on, unruly gardens, and her neighborhood. She serves as co-coordinator of Christian formation with Immanuel Mennonite Church, seeking to empower families and individuals to follow Christ by nurturing learning and practices of belonging, hospitality and hope. As part of her position, she writes a blog called...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA's Cost of War: Learn, Pray, Join initiative and the #BeTransformed series. Drew Strait teaches New Testament at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS). His writing focuses on peace and peacemaking in early Christianity, along with early Christian negotiation of political idolatry. He served as a pastor at Living Water Community Church in Chicago, Illinois, and as an elder at Peace Fellowship in Washington, D.C., before relocating to Indiana, where he now attends Keller Park Church. Drew is married and has three children. For more about Drew's work on Christian nationalism, see his AMBS web page...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. For many years (1985-2022), John D. Roth was a professor of history at Goshen College, where he also served as director of the Mennonite Historical Library and editor of The Mennonite Quarterly Review. John has published widely on topics related to Anabaptist-Mennonite history and church life. He is also the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism at Goshen College and secretary of the Mennonite World Conference Faith and Life Commission. In July 2022, John accepted a new position with MennoMedia as project director of the "Anabaptism at 500" initiative. John and his wife, Ruth, are the parents...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Participate in the RAWtools art auction to support the MC USA Justice Fund. Mike Martin is the executive director of RAWtools, Inc., a passion ministry of Mountain States Mennonite Conference. He is also a co-author of “Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence.” Mike attends Beth-El Mennonite Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where his wife, Hannah, is the children’s pastor. Mike and Hannah have 2 very lively boys, who love ice cream, animals, Legos and dinosaurs. ___________________________________ RAWtools started just after the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre....
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Kevin Gasser is the pastor of Staunton Mennonite Church in Staunton, Virginia. He is currently studying comparative theological ethics at Georgetown University, where he researches nonviolent movements within various religious traditions. Kevin lives with his wife, Sonya, and their two children, Paxton and Hadley. ______________________________________________ I often find myself transformed through my interactions with people who see the world differently. More times than not, those transformations are for the better, bringing me to a clearer understanding of not only the beliefs of others, but also my own convictions. I usually...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Rob Muthiah is a professor of practical theology at Azusa Pacific Seminary and a member of Pasadena (California) Mennonite Church. He was the team lead for producing Lamenting Racism, a 6-part video/discussion curriculum for church groups, available through MennoMedia. ______________________________________________ I get so angry about the depths of evil that racism perpetrates. I get so angry about the pain and damage and destruction racism causes. A lot of that has to do with my dad. Not because he is an angry person but because of the color of his skin....
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Glen Guyton serves as the executive director for Mennonite Church USA. He has more than a quarter century of experience serving in the denomination at various levels. Guyton has a wonderful ability to share difficult and complex information with diverse groups. Organizations, professional associations and educators praise Guyton for his quick-witted humor and relatability. He has authored two books, IDEAL ME: Discovering Your Call in a Cluttered World and Reawakened: How Your Congregation Can Spark Lasting Change. Guyton holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from the United States Air...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Thomas Dunn lives in Akron, Ohio, and pastors Crown Hill Mennonite Church. He has degrees from Bluffton University and Case Western Reserve University. He enjoys all of the cycling disciplines but regularly spends time road, gravel and mountain biking. Thomas is a member of the Mennonite Church USA Executive Board. This is his first term. ______________________________________________ Attempting to describe the process of spiritual transformation quickly brings me to the limits of my ability to communicate. Transformation is such an amorphous process that I do not even fully understand how, and...
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