Leadership Forum offered
Pastors, lay leaders, board members, and executive leaders are invited to a leadership forum on Thursday, February 12 presented by Eastern District, Franconia Conference’s School for Leadership Formation, and Frederick Mennonite Community. Finding Our Way Together: Leadership in Challenging Times will be led by Rick Stiffney, President and CEO of Mennonite Health Services Alliance. It will focus on the nature of the call to serve as lay and professional leaders and to explore how staff leaders can create effective partnerships with lay boards to carry forward long-range planning in their particular setting. Participants will take away strengthened relationships and teamwork within your leadership team/board/structure, along with an analysis of how to add value to your leadership team. For more information and to register, click here. Registration deadline is February 1. Contact Jessica Walter at 215-723-5513, ext 127 with questions.
Upcoming Distance Courses from EMS
Eastern Mennonite Seminary is pleased to announce the titles of three distance learning courses for the 2009 Spring and Summer semester:
Spring Distance Course
Mennonite Faith and Polity (begins February 2)
Summer Distance Courses
Prayer in the Christian Tradition
The Christian Movement in the Mediterranean
Check the distance learning web page at www.emu.edu/seminary/distancelearning/index.html for course descriptions, faculty information, and fees. A part-time application must be submitted before you can register for a course. An on-line form is at www.emu.edu/seminary/part-time_app.html. Deadline for Spring registration is January 29; Summer term deadline is May 1.
Save the Date!
All pastors and youth pastors are invited to attend Pastors’ Day at Christopher Dock Mennonite High School on Wednesday, March 11, beginning at 8 a.m. More information will follow.
Call to Prayer: Following Jesus in a world that is not
At San Jose 2007, Mennonite Church USA delegates passed a resolution on national identity and encouraged the church to think about the promise and peril of living faithfully as Christians in the United States. The Mennonite Church USA Executive Board wants to remind you that resources to help your congregation respond to this call will be available in the February 3 issue of The Mennonite. Included are Sunday worship resources centering on the theme, Following Jesus in a world that is not, created by Marlene Kropf and Susan Mark Landis. You may want to consider reserving a Sunday in February for this worship service focus before Lent begins or perhaps later in the spring after Easter. Additional study resources will also be available on the web page (in fact, you’ll find some good resources there already). You may want to distribute this handout now or later when your congregation focuses on this theme. If you have questions, please send them to Kathryn Rodgers at KathrynR@MennoniteUSA.org.
The opinions expressed in articles posted on Mosaic’s website are those of the author and may not reflect the official policy of Mosaic Conference. Mosaic is a large conference, crossing ethnicities, geographies, generations, theologies, and politics. Each person can only speak for themselves; no one can represent “the conference.” May God give us the grace to hear what the Spirit is speaking to us through people with whom we disagree and the humility and courage to love one another even when those disagreements can’t be bridged.