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Jenny Fujita

A Board Member’s Call Shaped by Listening and Storytelling

February 19, 2026 by Cindy Angela

Editor’s Note: This profile is part of a series of articles introducing the three board members joining the Mosaic Conference board in 2026.  

Jenny Fujita comes to the Mosaic Mennonite Conference Board as an at-large member with a deep love for the Mosaic community and a commitment shaped by years of listening, discernment, and collaborative leadership.

Her journey toward board service began through serving as a co-facilitator of Mosaic’s Listening Task Force in 2022, where she worked alongside pastors and leaders from across the Conference to co-lead a listening process and review of Mosaic’s relationship with Mennonite Church USA. Over four weeks, the task force listened to voices representing more than 8,500 Mosaic members, 150 credentialed leaders, over six language groups, from 64 congregations, 27 Conference-Related Ministries, and Mosaic staff members across six states.

“It was a gift to hear the voices of so many of our siblings in Christ,” Fujita reflects. “We truly are a mosaic.”

That experience led to her role on the Pathway Steering Team, where Fujita spent two years helping envision how Mosaic would build our future together. As those efforts begin to bear fruit now, Fujita sees this season of Mosaic’s life as pivotal, challenging, and hopeful.

“I’m looking forward to continuing to discern the Holy Spirit’s will for Mosaic and to collaborate with the growing Mosaic family in the years ahead,” Fujita says.

Fujita is a member of Blooming Glen (PA) Mennonite and previously served for several years as pastor of Upper Milford (PA) Mennonite. She describes that season as one of the most meaningful experiences of her life.

“Upper Milford is a small but very active church,” she says. “They taught me that the size of a congregation has no bearing on its faithfulness or mission. Small can indeed be mighty when a church is congregationally led and everyone plays a role in God’s kingdom work.”

Preaching has long been central to Fujita’s ministry. While Blooming Glen offered her the first opportunities to preach, Upper Milford provided the space to deepen and refine that call.

“Preaching is storytelling that helps both listeners and the storyteller fall more deeply in love with our God of love,” Fujita reflects. “Writing and delivering sermons is a form of worship and a sacred collaboration with the Holy Spirit. I now see preaching as my primary ministry”

Fujita serves as an itinerant preacher, offering sermons at Mosaic congregations and beyond, when she is asked. This includes churches of other denominations and multidenominational gatherings, both in person and online.

“Preaching itinerantly helps ensure that I’m sharing God’s good news to and with all people, not just those I know or who share our Anabaptist values,” explains Fujita. “Our Anabaptist essentials are for everyone.”

Outside of itinerant preaching and work with Mosaic, Fujita has led a community relations business on the island of Kaua‘i for more than 25 years, established during the years she lived there (1994-2010). The hard work and dedication of her Kauai business partner and colleagues keep the business thriving and give Fujita space to focus on ministry in Pennsylvania.

Fujita grew up in Puerto Rico, where her family owned an Italian restaurant. She later moved to Bucks County, PA and graduated from Pennridge High School. As a teenager, she once dreamed of becoming a forensic pathologist, and while she was supposed to be volunteering at Grand View hospital, she interned in the morgue.

We are grateful for Fujita’s gifts, perspective, and faithful presence, and we look forward to her leadership on the Mosaic Mennonite Conference Board.


Mosaic values two-way communication and encourages our constituents to respond with feedback, questions, or encouragement. To share your thoughts or send a message to the author(s), contact us at communication@mosaicmennonites.org.   

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Board, Jenny Fujita, Mosaic Board

Anabaptism at 500: What Anabaptism Means to Me – April 2025

April 10, 2025 by Cindy Angela

As Mosaic Mennonite Conference commemorates the 500th Anniversary of Anabaptism in 2025, each month we will share a variety of Mosaic voices reflecting on the question, “What does Anabaptism mean to me?”  

Submission from

Angela Moyer Walter, Mosaic Conference Moderator

On Commemorating Anabaptism at 500 this year:

I value the opportunity to celebrate the witness to a separation of church and state in order to bear witness to God’s upside down kingdom; the testimony to the power of nonviolent love; the commitment to service and simplicity; an emphasis on the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus; and building shalom in our relationships with God, others, self, and all of creation.

It is also an opportunity to acknowledge and lament the ways in which we have created conflict and violence through misuses of power via colonialism, racism, classism, and sexism and commit to the work of transparency, reconciliation, and restoration that the Spirit of Christ empowers us for.

Lastly, this year’s celebration creates an opportunity for us to pause and listen to and observe the Spirit’s leading. What unexpected places might she lead us? What surprises may be in store for us? I commit to following wherever the Spirit leads.  


Submission from

Letty Cortes Castro, Centro de Alabanza de Filadelfia (PA)

(English Translation Below)

El anabuatismo para mí significa fortalecer la fe a través del testimonio de los reformadores del siglo xvi, quienes dieron su propia vida por defender su fe. El anabautismo es compartir con otros la importancia de ser puentes de paz y reconciliación en medio de la violencia; es vivir un estilo de vida basado en el ejemplo de Jesús, ayudando a los más vulnerables compartiéndoles el evangelio, llevándolos a reconocer que necesitan un Salvador, pero también enseñándoles a salir adelante en su vida personal (hay un proverbio chino que dice enséñale a pescar y comerá el resto de su vida).  

El anabautismo es compartir en comunidad las escrituras, los valores y la ética moral donde hombres y mujeres deciden voluntariamente ser seguidores y discípulos de Jesús, mostrando su compromiso y obediencia, haciendo público su deseo de ser bautizados como adultos por decisión propia. Pertenecer a una comunidad cristiana anabautista es hacer una misión integral donde son atendidos todos los miembros desde el anciano hasta el más pequeño, cubriendo sus necesidades espirituales, físicas y emocionales, basados en las escrituras  donde el enfoque es Cristo céntrico, el discipulado, el servicio, la alabanza  y la preparación teológica.  

English Translation:

Anabautismo (Anabaptism), for me, means strengthening faith through the testimony of the 16th-century reformers who gave their lives to defend their faith. Anabautismo is about sharing with others the importance of being bridges of peace and reconciliation in the midst of violence; it is about living a lifestyle based on Jesus’ example, helping the most vulnerable by sharing the gospel with them, leading them to recognize that they need a Savior, but also teaching them how to overcome challenges in their personal lives (there is a Chinese proverb that says, “Teach them to fish, and they will eat for the rest of their lives”).  

Anabautismo is about sharing scriptures, values, and moral ethics in community, where men and women voluntarily choose to be followers and disciples of Jesus, demonstrating their commitment and obedience, publicly expressing their desire to be baptized as adults by their own decision. Belonging to an Anabaptist Christian community is engaging in integral mission, where all members, from the elderly to the youngest, are attended to, covering their spiritual, physical, and emotional needs, based on scriptures with a Christ-centered focus on discipleship, service, praise, and theological preparation. 


Submission from

Jenny Fujita, Blooming Glen (PA) Mennonite 

I’m finishing seminary and the last student left in my Anabaptist studies program. That sounds like bad news but it’s not. My classes are now so thoroughly Anabaptist that we no longer need a program named after what we’re learning. Students and professors consistently share examples of faith communities that revolve around Jesus and strive for reconciling peace. Today, Anabaptism is transdenominational. It is not ours alone.  

For 500 years Anabaptists have been living out the risky love of God together with discipline, perseverance, joy, and sometimes pain. The rooster did not crow even once for the early Anabaptists.  

Today, I am being formed by Anabaptists around me — extraordinary people who don’t even know how special they are. They humbly give kidneys to strangers, tell Pennsylvania Dutch tales about a simpler time, plant trees, raise money for deworming medicine for the world’s children, minister to veterans with moral injuries, host hymn sings as an act of worship, store hundreds of copy paper boxes in their garage for annual school kit assemblies, buy shoes in bulk to send to Honduras, visit lonely elders, deliver roasted chickens to the doorsteps of the sick and grieving, knit prayer shawls, bring farm surpluses to hungry families, and more. 

I witness these acts of radical love every day, and the world is noticing, too. Onlookers are magnetized by the authentic ways Anabaptists follow Jesus’ example. What could be more attractive (and necessary) in today’s world? 


Mosaic values two-way communication and encourages our constituents to respond with feedback, questions, or encouragement. To share your thoughts or send a message to the author(s), contact us at communication@mosaicmennonites.org.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Anabaptism at 500, Angela Moyer Walter, Jenny Fujita, Letty Cortes Castro, What Anabaptism Means to Me

Fasting 101: Hungering for God and God’s Will  

February 27, 2025 by Cindy Angela

by Jenny Fujita

We find two kinds of fasting in Scripture:

  1. Personal fasting – we are to keep personal fasting private and use this practice when we need an answer from God or God’s guidance on something. The goal is to assure that our will is aligned with God’s will. When we’re hungry, we replace that hunger with prayer and Scripture reading.
  2. Corporate fasting – this is the kind of fasting we do together. It’s typically done on Jewish high holy days and Lent, but it can be done at any time as an act of repentance (turning to God) and/or to seek God’s will corporately. Corporate fasting can help answer specific questions and open us to God’s will. When answers come, they must be consistent with what Scripture tells us. This type of fasting is “about us,” not “about me.” As with personal fasting, when we’re hungry, we replace that hunger with prayer and Scripture reading.  

What Fasting Is and Is Not  

  • Fasting is NOT giving up something you enjoy.  
  • Fasting IS giving up something you need.   
  • Fasting requires a physical connection. “One does not live by bread alone,” (Matthew 4:4, Luke 4:4).  
  • Fasting is NOT about giving up something you’re addicted to. In this case, one must address the problem of addiction.  
  • Fasting is NOT for people with eating disorders or health conditions that prohibit the withholding of food or drink.   

Key Aspects of Fasting

Fasting…  

  • Involves our body, mind, and spirit — it is a holistic practice  
  • Makes us vulnerable  
  • Helps us to seek God from a place of weakness  
  • Is an act of privilege. You can’t fast if you have nothing to give up. Recognize this privilege and blessing that we have something to give up.  
  • Causes discomfort because it deprives us of what we need. This forces us to depend on God and God alone, just as Jesus did in the wilderness for 40 days.

Ideas for Fasting

Each person can choose the kind of fasting that’s best for them. Some ideas include:

  • Food – for a set period of time, eat less food, no food, or fewer meals a day  
  • Temperature – turn down the heat for a period of time in the winter or turn off the AC in the summer  
  • Sleep – sleep less  
  • Sackcloth and ashes – sackcloth is a coarse black cloth made from goat hair. It was a practice of ancient near Eastern people to wear sackcloth and sit in ashes or place ashes on their heads as a sign of mourning, repentance, and when praying for deliverance. This is where our Ash Wednesday tradition comes from. Today we can wear something itchy or put a stone in our shoe.  
  • Withholding water is not recommended  

Two Things to Do During a Fast

  1. Repent – turn and face God and say “I’m sorry” for sins. This apology must be accompanied by a reparative act. This is why Jesus tells us (metaphorically), “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away” (Matthew 5:29).
  2. Replace – replace your physical need with prayer and Scripture reading.

Repenting and replacing draw us closer to God and help us to discern God’s will.  

How to Discern What Comes to Us

  • Record what arises
  • Meet regularly to discuss what arises
  • Look for agreement — consensus indicates God’s presence  

An example from Scripture was during the Jerusalem Council in which members of various traditions gathered to discern how to address bringing new believers into the church. After fasting and prayer they reached consensus (c.f. Acts 15).  

Alignment with God’s Will

Alignment with God’s will is what glorifies God, not the fast itself. The practice of fasting is an essential part of growing our relationship with God and we should gain revelations through it. We should ask and expect answers from God when we fast. If we ask a question and receive no answer, we may need to discern the question further and change the question. God always speaks; we may not always hear.

How Do We Hear God?

To attune to the voice of God we can…

  • Journal
  • Be aware of spontaneous thoughts. These thoughts must be consistent with what Scripture tells us.
  • Be still and quiet.
  • Record our visions or dreams.
  • Spend time in Scripture. Read it, memorize it, study it, discuss it, and share the good news.
  • Set aside adequate time for undistracted prayer, including praying aloud.  

For more information, explore Mark Virkler’s writings on hearing God’s voice. 


Jenny Fujita

Jenny is an itinerant preacher and former pastor. She holds a Certificate in Theology and Ministry from Princeton Theological Seminary and is a master’s in theology candidate from Northern Seminary.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Jenny Fujita, Lent

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