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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s MennoCon21 #BringThePeace series. Brian Martin Burkholder serves as University Chaplain and Director of Faith and Spiritual Life at Eastern Mennonite University. He enjoys encouraging others, gardening, nature, leading singing and worship, and retreats of various types. He is energized by chaplaincy, bluegrass, folk, roots and world music, hiking in beautiful natural settings, spiritual mentoring, and almost everything water-related. He also gets into personality inventories. Enneagram: three Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: ENFP/J Strengths Finder: adaptability, harmony, maximizer, responsibility, arranger Spiritual Gifts: administration, support, service Spiritual Type: come to the seminar Brian will be leading a MennoCon21...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s MennoCon21 #BringThePeace series. Michele Hershberger is such a Bible nerd that she's been caught drawing atonement graphs on Pizza Hut napkins. She's constantly on the lookout for ways to revive the church, knowing that the biggest part of that search is listening to the Spirit. She also loves spending time with her husband, Del, and young adult children. They might be found motorcycling, camping in the woods or performing in a local theater. Michele is Chair of the Bible Department at Hesston College, where she teaches classes in biblical studies, youth ministry and missional...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s MennoCon21 #BringThePeace series. Polly Carlson grew up in Freeman, South Dakota, where she graduated from Freeman Academy and attended Salem Mennonite (South) Church. In May of 2020, Polly graduated from Bethel College of North Newton, Kansas, with a BA in elementary education. A few months later, she moved to San Francisco, California, to do a year of service with Mennonite Voluntary Service, where she currently teaches elementary school aged children from immigrant families in the Mission District. ____________________________________________________ When I was asked to write about my experiences at MennoCon, it didn’t take me very long...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s MennoCon21 #BringThePeace series. Arloa Bontrager has been the director of SOOP and Youth Venture at Mennonite Mission Network for almost 20 years. In these roles, she loves connecting people to places of ministry across the church. Prior to her work at Mission Network, she was a social worker in home care and hospice, and in a child abuse prevention program. She lives in Goshen, Indiana, with her husband, Rohrer Bomberger, and they attend Walnut Hill Mennonite Church. She enjoys her three adult children and her lively grandson. When Arloa needs to clear the cobwebs...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s MennoCon21 #BringThePeace series. Dr. Lesley Francisco McClendon is the senior pastor of C3 – Calvary Community Church, Hampton, Virginia. She teaches with vigor and passion and aims to deliver powerful, life-altering messages with their simple, easy-to-comprehend delivery. She has a passion for bridging generational gaps and loves speaking to a broad range of audiences, although she often says that mid-20s to mid-life crisis is her sweet spot. Lesley and her husband, Caleb, will speak on “The Root of Peace” during the Tuesday evening worship service at MennoCon21. __________________ Peace is the best form of...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s MennoCon21 #BringThePeace series. Safwat Marzouk is the associate professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. He is an ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church in Egypt and is a member of the Wabash Valley Presbytery. He has pastored in Alexandria, Egypt, as well as in Jersey City, New Jersey, while he was finishing his doctorate at Princeton (New Jersey) Theological Seminary. In addition to writing numerous articles and book chapters, he is the author of two books: Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel and Intercultural Church: A Biblical...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s MennoCon21 #BringThePeace series. Ana Alicia Hinojosa serves as Immigration Education Coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee. Ana Alicia is currently working on obtaining her Pastoral license to serve as a Co-Pastor at New Life Christian Center in San Benito, Texas, alongside her father, Eduardo “Lalo” Hinojosa. Ana spends her time caring for her 100-year-old grandmother and parents, but when she is able to get a bit of time, she escapes to the beach to soak up some warmth and read a good book or curls up on her sofa to enjoy a good movie. Anna...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA's MennoCon21 #BringThePeace series. Dr. Meghan Larissa Good is Teaching Pastor at Trinity Mennonite Church (Glendale, AZ) and author of The Bible Unwrapped: Making Sense of Scripture Today. Meghan will speak on "Jesus is the Peace" during the Wednesday evening worship service at MennoCon21. _______________ “What does peace have to do with Jesus?” For my evangelical friends, this question marks the birthplace of a theological revolution. Many have deep devotion to Jesus but have never been introduced to the integral connection between the good news of Jesus and the conflicts and divisions fracturing the...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA's MennoCon21 #BringThePeace series. Jon Carlson serves as Lead Pastor of Forest Hills Mennonite Church. A reluctant Millennial, Jon is fascinated by the intersections of faith, culture, technology, and tradition. He and his wife, Lyn, are raising three young children in Lancaster County, PA. When he’s not chauffeuring kids around, Jon enjoys a good cup of espresso, a dense book, or a long-distance run. Jon will speak on "Trust the Peace" during the Friday evening worship service at MennoCon21. _______________ Trust makes the world go ‘round — or so we’ve been...
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Registration is now open By MC USA staff Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) has opened registration for both in-person and online attendance at MennoCon21, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 6-10, 2021. Registration rates, details and a downloadable registration worksheet are available at Convention.Mennoniteusa.org/registration/. Reservations for housing at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza and the Hyatt Regency Cincinnati will open on April 13. Both hotels are within a few blocks of the Duke Energy Convention Center, where MennoCon21 will be held. “There will be meaningful programming for youth and adults, whether they attend in-person or online,” said MC USA Event Manager Scott...
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MC USA and RAWtools both seek to #BringThePeace through restorative justice. The organizations are partnering through RAWtools’ guns-to-garden-tools program and MC USA’s Justice Fund. By Jessica Griggs for MC USA Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) has partnered with RAWtools, Inc., an organization that transforms donated guns into garden tools and art. This collaboration encourages local MC USA congregations to engage in costly peacemaking, by holding gun donation events in their local communities. In January, Portland (Oregon) Mennonite Church and First Mennonite Church of Denver (Colorado) were the first two MC USA congregations to participate in the collaboration by...
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English version available here. Por el personal de la Iglesia Menonita de EE. UU. El Concilio de Líderes Constituyentes (CLC) de la Iglesia Menonita de EE. UU. (MC USA) se reunió el 16 y 17 de octubre del 2020 por videoconferencia para abordar un orden del día completo que incluyó una presentación sobre “Raza y poder”, informes de los miembros del CLC y novedades de las actividades denominacionales y de MennoCon21, además de varias horas de conversación sobre la idea de retirar los Lineamientos de Membresía de la denominación. A la primera reunión virtual del CLC, presidida por...
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By MC USA staff The Constituency Leaders Council (CLC) of Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) met on October 16-17, 2020, via videoconference to address a full agenda that included a presentation on “Race and Power,” reports from CLC members and updates on denominational activities and MennoCon21, as well as several hours of discussion on retiring the denomination’s Membership Guidelines. Chaired by MC USA Moderator-Elect Linda Dibble, the CLC’s first virtual gathering was attended by leaders from the 16 area conferences, several denominational agencies, constituency groups,...
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“Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Luke 10:2b By Cami Dager (Mennonite Church USA) – In January 2016, Zion Mennonite Church (Zion), a Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) congregation in Souderton, Pennsylvania, started providing 20 students at a local elementary school with backpacks of food for the weekend. This began The Bean Bag Food Program, an outreach ministry to address childhood hunger. Today, the program has expanded to serve almost 200 students at six elementary schools and one middle school – and inspired...
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