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Jazmine Rivera is an administrative assistant at Mennonite Central Committee U.S. for National Program. She is a single mother of three girls who is keeping her commitment to Interdisciplinary Studies at Hodges University. She enjoys exploring creative ways to bring new adventures to life with her girls, whether it be in road trips, hikes, building or cooking. From a young age, life taught me that I must be strong and resilient. I watched the women around me push through their pain. They never talked about their problems and fears, or how these things affected them. And most importantly, they never...
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Mariah Martin is currently a senior at Eastern Mennonite University where she studies nursing and plays field hockey. Though her home base is Greencastle, Pennsylvania, she recently traveled to Haiti with a professor and fellow nursing students to work alongside the organization Midwives for Haiti. She enjoys long talks, writing, rock climbing and anything outdoors. In the future, she hopes to pursue a career as a nurse midwife and eventually work overseas. “It’s hot,” she says. “It’s Haiti,” I answer. We trudge up the stairs, a few nursing students and a professor on the first day of work in our...
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Saulo Padilla was born in Guatemala. In 1986 he immigrated with his mother and siblings to Canada to reunite with his father who left Guatemala as a political refugee in 1980, during the civil war. Since January 2008 Saulo has been working for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S. as coordinator for the Immigration Education National Program. His passion to work with immigrants comes from his own experience as the son of a refugee and immigrant, as well as the biblical call to welcome the stranger. "Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of many will grow cold" Matthew 24:12....
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Michael Howes is husband to the Rev. Sue Conrad Howes, father to Michael and Emily, and an ordained pastor in Mennonite Church USA, although he currently serves as Pastor of Youth and Faith Formation at Lancaster Church of the Brethren. For the last 25 years he’s pastored everywhere from rural west Texas to the most economically and ethnically diverse suburbs of Washington, D.C. He loves making Sue laugh and all things nerdy. In 1 John 3:16, the author writes, "Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth." My wife Sue and I...
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The following is an excerpt from Love is a Verb: A one-year spiritual practice resource, written by Leo Hartshorn. The resource explores the 2017 convention theme Love is a Verb through the lens of Richard Foster’s six spiritual streams. Download the entire booklet from the Mennonite Church USA resource center. We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us — and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little...
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Kelly Bates Oglesby resides with her husband in Indianapolis. Presently she’s discerning ministry/pastoral opportunities while providing supply preaching and teaching service as called. She’s looking forward to the Women in Leadership Project’s Women Doing Theology conference in November. Verbs are action indicators in our life story. Through verbs we understand what was, is and will be done. Verbs give dimension and direction to the people, places and things we encounter in community and along the journey. As we consider love as a verb there are so many directions we are called to act, counteract, react and even proact. Love has...
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Karla Stoltzfus Detweiler is mother to Mahala and Isaiah, wife to Nathan and Minister of Church Community Life at First Mennonite Church of Iowa City. She received a Master of Divinity from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in 2007. Besides tending her family and the church, she loves going for walks in the woods, gardening and playing with flowers. Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God! Everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 4:7-8 My four-month-old daughter, Mahala, wobbles...
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Marlene Bogard serves as executive director of Mennonite Women USA and lives in Salem, Oregon, where daily she takes her cute little doggie on walks over the bridge, beyond the rippling creek and past the tall trees. She is married to Mike, has two adult sons and one adorable grandson. She is a fan of strong coffee, warm conversations and happy people. Got a mantra? I am always on the hunt. Seems like I need a phrase, a song, a scripture to tame my ever-wandering mind. I have embraced many mantras over the years. Funny thing is, the mantra itself...
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Raquel Esteves-Joyce works at Haverford College as a faculty affiliate of the Writing Center and a learning specialist at the Office of Academic Resources. She also serves as a board member of Oxford Circle Christian Community Development Association. She has a master’s degree in Multicultural Education from Eastern University and her doctorate in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Raquel lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her husband Timothy and their two children, Adonaya and Little Timothy (their third child will be born in November). Together they worship at Oxford Circle Mennonite Church. I love the movie The Wizard of Oz....
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Melody M. Pannell currently serves as assistant professor of social work at Eastern Mennonite University. It is her life mission to embody practical theology through the values and ethics of social work and encourage those that she serves to engage in a transformative journey of emancipatory hope in action and empowerment through holistic, therapeutic and restorative ministry. “The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the...
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[Español] (Mennonite Church USA) — On May 16, Mennonite Church USA Executive Board staff released a year-long spiritual practices resource that explores the 2017 convention theme Love is a Verb through the lens of Richard Foster’s six spiritual streams. The resource is intended for use by delegates, youth groups, presenters, planners and other convention attendees from July 2016 through June 2017. Leo Hartshorn of Portland, Oregon, is the author; he also wrote the six-week discernment guide leading up to the Delegate Assembly in Kansas City in 2015. “I am particularly excited about this resource in that it provides a wide...
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Michael Danner is the conference executive minister for Illinois Mennonite Conference and a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Northern Seminary. He is married to Melissa and they live in Morton, Illinois, where they attend First Mennonite Church of Morton. In my position as conference executive minister in Illinois Mennonite Conference (IMC), I work with a wide variety of congregations. Some of our congregations are urban, others are rural. Some are progressive, others are traditional. Some are ethnically homogeneous, others are ethnically diverse. Some are rooted in the Mennonite tradition and have been for long periods of time, others...
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Melissa Florer-Bixler is licensed for ministry in Virginia Mennonite Conference, although she currently serves the people of Duke Memorial United Methodist Church in Durham, North Carolina, as Minister of Nurture. She parents three small children with her husband, Jacob. They worship as a family at Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship. Melissa is active in a group working to found a new L’Arche community in Durham. I’m standing next to one of my theology professors and he is laughing. I’ve run into him at a protest against House Bill 2 in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.HB2 is sometimes referred to as “the bathroom...
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Sarah Ann Bixler deeply loves Mennonite Church USA and its commitment to God’s healing and hope. She has served throughout Mennonite Church USA in education, youth ministry, curriculum writing and conference leadership. Sarah lives with her husband, Benjamin, and their three children in New Jersey and they attend Oxford Circle Mennonite Church. Sarah is graduating with a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, where she will soon begin doctoral studies in Christian education. Sarah directed the junior youth program for KC2015 and chairs the Orlando 2017 adult worship planning committee. “We love because God first loved us.” 1 John...
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