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#BeTransformed is Mennonite Church USA’s call for individuals and congregations to fully live into our Renewed Commitments to follow Jesus, witness to God’s peace and experience transformation. So, if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NRSV) --- I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The wild animals will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Duncan Smith has been Director of The Corinthian Plan (TCP) since 2014. Previous to TCP, he served as a conference minister and several pastorates, including transitional interim positions. Duncan’s pastoral experience spans both urban and rural settings. Many years ago he spent two summers working in Yellowstone National Park. ______________________________________________ I first remember encountering the Beatitudes and Sermon on the Mount as a teenager. The words in Matthew 5-7 were central to my understanding of how to live in this world as a disciple of Christ, and they still are today....
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Camille Dager has served as the multimedia news and information editor for Mennonite Church USA since October 2019. She attends Deep Run Mennonite Church West, Perkasie, Pennsylvania. ______________________________________________ Examples of transformation were easy to see in my area of Eastern Pennsylvania this spring and summer, as Brood X cicadas emerged in late May in a remarkable display. These creatures have an amazing ability to adapt. For 17 years, they are tucked away underground, sucking the juice of tree roots. Then, miraculously, they emerge from the ground, within days of each other, into a world that’s brand new to them. Once above ground, they instinctively crawl to the nearest tree or plant and immediately burst out of their...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Sue Park-Hur is the denominational minister for Transformative Peacemaking for Mennonite Church USA, overseeing the peace and justice related issues. She also supervises Women in Leadership. Park-Hur co-directs ReconciliAsian, a peace center in Los Angeles specializing in conflict transformation and restorative justice for immigrant churches. A former co-lead pastor and co-church planter, her passion is to see the church living out the shalom of the gospel. Park-Hur is trained in Intercultural Development Inventory and is a Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) practitioner. She has a graduate degree in...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Wil LaVeist is chief communications officer for Mennonite Church USA and senior executive for advancement for Mennonite Mission Network. He is a veteran journalist, author and professor of journalism at the University of Maryland Global Campus. ______________________________________________ Beginning in January, a brilliant, red cardinal has been visiting outside our condo window. He first made himself known by landing on the sideview mirror of my silver car, parked in front of my 10-story building. He pecked and pecked and fluttered about as if he wanted to hop into the passenger seat...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Iris de León-Hartshorn serves as associate executive director of Operations and director of Human Resources for Mennonite Church USA (MC USA). She represents the staff on MC USA’s Leadership Discernment Committee and works to promote anti-racism and intercultural competency by providing leadership for various people of color organizations, such as MC USA’s Racial Ethnic Council, and by convening leadership gatherings, including Hope for the Future. ______________________________________________ When I think about the word “transformation,” I immediately think about the word “becoming” — like a caterpillar in the process of becoming a...
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Mennonite Church USA is an Anabaptist, Christian denomination with roots in the Radical Reformation of 16th-century Europe. It is the largest Mennonite denomination in the United States with 16 conferences, approximately 530 congregations and 62,000 members. The Mennonite Church today is growing rapidly in many parts of the world, and the majority of Mennonites currently reside in the southern hemisphere. MC USA is part of Mennonite World Conference, a global faith family that includes churches in 86 countries. In the United States, Mennonite Church USA includes people who come from many faith traditions, ethnicities, nationalities...
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