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Asia Frye is the coordinator for junior youth convention in Orlando this summer. She's a retreat speaker and former youth pastor from Hillsboro, Kansas. She looks forward to graduating from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary this May. This post originally appeared on Mennonite Church USA's convention website. Early registration for convention runs through March 23. Register here. Y’all, I am so pumped about convention. Orlando 2017 will be my fifth convention and my first time to work specifically with the junior youth. I am excited to engage the Junior Youth in our convention theme: Love is a Verb. The junior youth...
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Danilo Sanchez lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania with his wife and two daughters. There he serves as a part-time youth pastor with two Mennonite churches and works part time with Mennonite Central Committee as the Summer Service National Coordinator. He studied at Eastern Mennonite Seminary (2013) and Eastern University (2010). This post originally appeared on the Mennonite Church USA convention website. Registration is now open for #MennoCon17. Register here. Our Allentown crew is looking forward to going to convention again. We have some who will be returning and a couple for whom it will be their first time. I like to...
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John Tyson is associate pastor for faith formation at Bethel College Mennonite Church in North Newton, Kansas. The following post first appeared at Mennonite Church USA's convention website. Registration for #MennoCon17 opens today! To be honest, I was nervous about convention in 2015. I hadn’t attended an Mennonite Church USA convention since 2005, back when I was fresh off my senior year of high school. And this time I was the one bringing the youth along! I wondered as we set off on our short drive to Kansas City, what kind of church would we encounter at this convention? The...
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Diane Zaerr Brenneman is a member of Mennonite Church USA Executive Board. This post originally appeared on TheMennonite.org as part of its Seven Questions series. Seven question interviews are compiled by Hannah Heinzekehr. Name: Diane Zaerr Brenneman Congregation: West Union Mennonite Church, Kalona, Iowa 1. Can you think of one person from the congregation you grew up in that made a big impact on your own faith journey? I can think of a number, but I think the person who most comes to mind is Lorraine Wyse from Central Mennonite Church in Archbold, Ohio. She was a very godly, studious...
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Glen Guyton is chief operating officer and director of Convention Planning for Mennonite Church USA. Over the past few days I have been reading my Facebook feed and watching the various reactions about the election. Most, but not all of my friends are in shock, saddened, confused and fearful. Some of my friends are asking for Jesus to come back. Some are sharing horrifying posts of hate crimes. Others are lamenting Gary Johnson’s loss. A few are holding out hope the Electoral College is going to go rogue and make a different choice. For me, one post stood out from...
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Kent Miller is a pastor at First Mennonite Church in Middlebury, Indiana, where he focuses on worship, preaching, crises and senior care. He and his spouse, Jill, enjoy spending time with people, especially their two daughters, son-in-law, three grandchildren and extended family. This post originally appeared on the Mennonite Church USA convention blog. Can I be honest for a moment? I didn’t care for extended family reunions when I was a kid. My parents took my sister and me to them occasionally as we were growing up, but as I recall, I really did not want to go hang out...
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Seth Thomas Crissman is a licensed minister in Virginia Mennonite Conference and is the youth worship music leader for Orlando 2017. Seth is also member of The Walking Roots Band, a Harrisonburg, Virginia based folk band. He and his wife Theresa work for Virginia Mennonite Missions, helping congregations share and receive God’s love in their local neighborhoods through after school Kids Clubs. They have one daughter, Eliana, and are expecting a son in September. Photo by The Pinwheel Collective LLC It’s so easy to forget. Forgetting doesn’t seem to take any work at all. Remembering is hard. So we take...
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[Español] By Janie Beck Kreider ORLANDO, Florida (Mennonite Church USA) — Mennonite Church USA Executive Board (EB) members, Cabinet staff and agency leaders gathered June...
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EB staff to assist with communications for Mennonite Education Agency ELKHART, Indiana (Mennonite Church USA)—Janie Beck Kreider of Charlottesville, Virginia, has been named director of communications for Mennonite Church USA’s Executive Board (EB) staff, effective Feb. 1, 2016. She has been serving as interim communications project director since the departure of former communications director Hannah Heinzekehr on Oct. 1, 2015. In her new role, Beck Kreider will serve as a member of the Cabinet of the Executive Board staff, oversee the work of the Communications...
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[Español] By Janie Beck Kreider (Mennonite Church USA) — Mennonite Church USA Executive Board (EB) members, Cabinet staff and agency leaders gathered Feb. 11–13 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel near Chicago, Illinois, for the second meeting of the 2015–17 biennium. In addition to spending time in worship and prayer, the EB members passed a statement clarifying the meaning of forbearance, conducted a review of Mennonite Education Agency (MEA), discussed a proposal to create a new Racial Ethnic Council...
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Scott Hartman is Convention Planning coordinator for Mennonite Church USA. This post first appeared on Mennonite Church USA's convention blog. In the summer of 2017, the Mennonite Church USA convention will be held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. It will be 20 years since the last time Mennonites held a convention in this facility. The Mennonite Church (MC) convention was held in Orlando in 1997. As a staff person, that was the second convention I helped coordinate. Here are a few memories from that convention and some thoughts about our return to Orlando in 2017. Carol Epp...
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In a Lenten reflection, Rev. Amy Zimbelman invites us to experience transformation, as modeled by Mary Magdalene and today’s women in ministry. This blog includes storytelling and findings from an 18-month mixed-methods research project on the experiences of women in ministry in MC USA, conducted by Amy Zimbelman and Elizabeth Johnson. See other articles on this project HERE and HERE. Rev. Amy Zimbelman is the conference minister of Mountain States Mennonite Conference. She holds a Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School, and has also served in Zambia through Mennonite Central Committee and in South Dakota with Mennonite Voluntary Service. In South Dakota, she met...
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Tori Jones Long reflects on why she participated in an act of civil disobedience that led to her arrest during the Jan 16 Mennonite Action demonstration for a ceasefire. Tori Jones Long (she/her) is a local organizer for Mennonite Action in Bucks and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania and is an active member of Salford Mennonite Church, Harleysville, Pa. Tori navigates life with her husband, Zach, and spends her time spoiling her two dogs, Frank and Eddie, and enjoying small-town life. On Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, I was arrested with 134 other Mennonites by...
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After researching the experiences of women in ministry, Amy Zimbelman shares how women have used sass as a means to deal with inequality in ministry. This blog contains continued findings from a study of women in ministry. View the first blog in this series here. Rev. Amy Zimbelman is the conference minister of Mountain States Mennonite Conference. She holds a Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School, and has also served in Zambia through Mennonite Central Committee and in South Dakota with Mennonite Voluntary Service. In South Dakota, she met her husband/best friend, Matt Zimbelman, and they live in Colorado...
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Karla Stoltzfus Detweiler reflects on how to respond to climate doom with resistance and resilience, after attending Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary's Rooted and Grounded conference. Karla Stoltzfus Detweiler serves as the climate justice coordinator for Mennonite Church USA. An ordained minister and former pastor in Central Plains Mennonite Conference, she graduated from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and Eastern Mennonite University. When she’s not connecting with others about creation care and climate justice, you can find her in her garden, tending her family’s flock of chickens, cooking up something featuring local and seasonal ingredients, or reading with her son and daughter. A native of...
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