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Mennonite Church USA is an Anabaptist Christian denomination, founded in 2002, and a recognized peace church. Members seek to follow Jesus by rejecting violence and resisting injustice. MC USA’s Renewed Commitments state the following shared commitments among its diverse body of believers: to follow Jesus, witness to God’s...
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By Mennonite Church USA staff This year marks 400 years since 1619, the year when a ship carried enslaved people from West Africa to the British colony of Virginia for the first time. This is a season to grieve for all those who have been dehumanized in our country’s particularly brutal system of slavery, and it’s a time for action. The systemic roots of slavery’s horror and oppression persist not only “out there” in the world but also within our church. Black members of our community face the daily reality of systemic racism and address issues of historical trauma...
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Journey Forward is Mennonite Church USA’s churchwide renewal process of engaging in Scripture, storytelling and sharing how God is at work in the lives of people and congregations across MC USA. Its purpose is for us to renew our local and denominationwide identity and affirm our core beliefs as we live out the mission to which God calls us as the church. It is a process, not a conclusion. The process invites you to connect how you’re living God’s call to broader church mission and draws our attention to how the Living Word is moving in our midst. The Renewed Commitments concisely name...
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(Mennonite Church USA) — Two special offerings at MennoCon19 will go towards peace church planting within Mennonite Church USA and the Peace Academic Center (formally the Hopi Mission School). These offerings will take place during joint worship services of adult, youth and junior youth at the July 2-6 event in Kansas City, Missouri. The Peace Academic Center The Peace Academic Center has reopened with a new vision in partnership with Hopi churches on the Hopi reservation in Kykotsmovi, Arizona. The center is currently offering a GED program and plans...
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Madalyn Metzger is the Vice President of Marketing for Everence, a member of the MennoCon19 worship planning team, and will serve as a worship leader in Kansas City. She is a member of Anabaptist Communicators, the American Marketing Association, and the Manchester University Board of Trustees. Madalyn is passionate about social justice, leadership development and relationship building. She and her husband, Kris Brownlee, live in Bristol, Indiana, and attend the Goshen (Indiana) City Church of the Brethren (although Glen Guyton has declared her an “honorary Mennonite”). Community. This one word, for me, encapsulates what it’s like to be part of the body of...
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Over the next few months we’ve invited folks from across Mennonite Church USA to reflect on our Journey Forward and consider how they’ve seen Renewed Commitments at work in their lives, their congregation or community. If you’d like to contribute to this series by highlighting stories that bring our shared values to life, email JenniferC@MennoniteUSA.org. Meg Duff and Jonathan Hershberger attend First Mennonite Church of San Francisco. They enjoy game nights with good friends. Earlier this year, MC USA leaders met with young adults from First Mennonite Church of San Francisco (FMCSF) to discuss the Journey Forward, MC USA’s new strategic initiative. Two of us, Meg...
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Debbie Reed lives in Denver, Colorado and attends the First Mennonite Church. She retired from teaching in 2012 but continues to substitute teach when she is not playing in the beautiful Colorado mountains. Case de Paz is one of her many beloved volunteer obligations. Juan, Carlos and Mazhar all walked out of the door of the three thousand-square-foot Aurora Detention Center squinting at the setting sun, looking a little nervous and disoriented. Each had a small plastic bag filled with paper files and a few personal belongings. I quickly tried to put them at ease by explaining I was...
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Terry Shue reflects on his time as director of Leadership Development with MC USA and his hope for the future of the church. (Mennonite Church USA) — Terry Shue has served as MC USA’s director of Leadership Development and a member of the Executive Board leadership cabinet for eight years. His last day was June 1, 2018. How long have you been in ministry and in what capacities? I started seminary at AMBS when I was 30 years old when we moved to Elkhart with our three young daughters, the youngest being only 5 weeks old. We were there for...
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(Mennonite Church USA) — Sue Park-Hur joined Mennonite Church USA Executive Board staff as the denominational minister for Leadership Development on March 19, 2018. Park-Hur lives in Pasadena, California. Among her responsibilities in this role, Park-Hur will work to equip conferences and congregations to provide ministries of excellence and relevance in their local context. She will also provide oversight of the calling system for pastors in transition. Park-Hur previously served as the co-director of ReconciliAsian, a peace center in Los Angeles specializing in conflict transformation and restorative justice for immigrant churches. She was also the co-lead pastor of Mountain View Mennonite...
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en inglés / English Por Jenny Castro Traducción: Alex Naula, Cristina Rose Horst (Iglesia Menonita de EE. UU./Red Menonita de Misión/Agencia Menonita de Educación) — Cerca de 70 pastores, líderes, directores, coordinadores, educadores, forjadores de cambio y otras personas vinculadas a la Iglesia Menonita de EE. UU. (MC USA, por sus siglas en inglés) se reunieron entre el 8 y el 11 de febrero en el Hyatt Regency Riverwalk Hotel de San Antonio, Texas, para la séptima conferencia anual de Esperanza para el Futuro (Hope for the Future, abreviado HFF). En HFF confluyen líderes de color de toda MC USA...
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Sue Park-Hur is an ordained Mennonite pastor and co-director of ReconciliAsian. The following piece is based on a sermon she gave at Hope for the Future, the annual gathering for people of color working within Mennonite Church USA, its agencies and institutions. Exodus 1: 15-22 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live.” But the midwives feared God;...
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The Women in Leadership Project (WLP) is an initiative to empower women, in the fullness of who God created them to be, to live out their call in their local congregations and conferences across Mennonite Church USA and to actively contribute to our shared theology. The WLP works to dismantle patriarchy, in all its forms, within the denomination. A six-member steering committee guides and contributes to the work of the WLP. In February 2017, three new members accepted the invitation to join the committee, working together with experienced members Erica Littlewolf, Linda Gehman Peachey and Regina Shands Stoltzfus. Chantelle Todman...
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Jim Caskey 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: Jim Caskey Congregation: College Mennonite Church, Goshen, Indiana Occupation: Vice President for Advancement at Goshen College and member of the Mennonite Church USA Executive Board 1. Do you remember having a favorite Bible story as a kid and why did you like that particular story? I would have to say it was either the story of the Good Samaritan or the Prodigal Son. The Good Samaritan is...
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By Janie Beck Kreider NORTH NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Church USA) – The Mennonite Church USA Executive Board (EB) met at the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Central States office Nov. 10-12 to plan for the 2017 Delegate Assembly in Orlando and to assess the role of the board in the face of a changing church. The Racial Ethnic Council and EB meet On the opening day of the meetings, the Racial Ethnic Council (REC) met with the EB for the first time in its history to engage questions of power and authority in the church. The REC includes representatives from the...
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As the featured speaker at Hope for the Future (HFF) in January 2016, Isaac Villegas offered these reflections on the theme of “Love is a verb” as a way into the Bible passage assigned to him for the gathering: Ephesians 4:15-16. This part three of his series of three talks. “But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body's growth in building...
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