Mosaic Mennonites

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Rose Bender Cook

Mosaic Leaders Explore Jesus-Centered Leadership at Regional Gathering

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by Rose Bender Cook

Over a dozen Mosaic Mennonite Conference staff and leaders traveled to Delaware during the last weekend of June to a Jesus Collective Regional Conference. Founded in 2019 in Canada, Jesus Collective is a relational network of churches, organizations, and individuals who use an Anabaptist lens to center their faith and lives around Jesus.  

Given our work at Mosaic with the centered-set model and our emphasis on Jesus as center of our faith, we were curious to hear their perspective on Jesus-centered leadership, and how this approach intersects with power, justice, and conflict. 

Photo by Jesus Collective

The event was different than what I expected. Jesus Collective embraces a many-voiced, participatory approach. Rather than a series of lectures, the conference offered a conversational format: interviews, multi-voiced presentations, and space for small group discussion. Rather than providing answers, they invited us on a journey of shared discovery. There was time to wonder, to imagine, and to pray. 

One of the most intriguing aspects for me was to consider how holding Jesus as the center of our faith can be lived out in our congregational decisions, budgets, and in navigating differences.  

In the conversation around Jesus-centered power, Marlena Graves and Leonard Dow answered questions about their experiences. Dow shared that during his time as pastor of Oxford Circle Mennonite in Philadelphia, PA, he utilized a tool from Andy Crouch’s book Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing. The model calls Christian leaders to embrace the authority God has given them while also being vulnerable and taking risks, so that those they lead might flourish rather than be controlled.  

Graves shared how she was called by God to use her influence as a writer to advocate for justice when immigrant families were being separated at the U.S. border. Her story reminded us that we often have more power than we realize and that Jesus may call us to use it in disruptive, surprising ways that challenge unjust systems. 

Personally, I found myself drawn to the broader questions being asked about the church and what God is doing in the world. So often, my focus is narrowed to the needs of my congregation or our conference. This gathering invited me to zoom out. 

Leaders from Jesus Collective voiced a shared sense that we may be living through another reformation—one that, like the upheaval of the 1500s, will reshape institutions and power structures. Unlike revivals or renewals, reformation can be painful. It can feel as though the foundations are shaking. 

A diagram that Leonard Dow used during his seminar to explain Jesus-centered exercise of power.  

In the 16th century, the printing press sparked a technological revolution that changed everything. Today, we face an equally disruptive wave of technology: the internet, social media, smartphones, and AI. Information—true and false—moves rapidly across the globe. How will the church respond? 

In the first reformation, the Bible became accessible and was rediscovered by everyday people. Jesus Collective believes that in this era of change, the Spirit is inviting people to rediscover the Jesus of the Gospels. Institutions and formulas have had their day. 

The invitation was to pay attention to where the Spirit is moving and join God’s mission in the world, recognizing that it may look quite different than we expect. God is always doing a new thing. 

Rose Bender Cook

Rose Bender Cook is the Leadership Minister for Formation and the Mosaic Institute Director. She is also a pastor at Whitehall (PA) Mennonite Church.

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, contact Rose at rbender@mosaicmennonites.org.   

Nurturing Resilience, Together

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by Rose Bender Cook

Resilience is a popular buzzword these days. In the Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) program, resilience is defined as “the capacity of individuals and communities to adapt, survive, and bounce back in the midst of or after hardship and adversity.”   

All of us need resilience. Healthy leadership requires us to deal with our own wounds, as well as caring for others when they go through a hard season. The Bible contains examples of resilient people who overcame difficult circumstances and thrived:  Job, Esther, Paul, and Jesus himself, to name a few. Many scriptures encourage us to persevere in the face of trials. Proverbs 24:16, NIV reminds us that “Though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again.” 

There are times in my life when I feel like I am in the deep end of a swimming pool, with my nose peaking above the water. Whether it’s my own fault or due to circumstances beyond my control, the experience is the same. The smallest splash of water will send me spluttering and splashing to catch my breath.   

This holiday season, as the weather got icy cold, I thought about friends who have spent far too much time in the deep end of the pool. A blown tire, a lost check, or a bad test result sends them under water. They do not have any margin—financial or otherwise. That’s a hard way to live day after day.  

And yet, I see them smiling and playing games at Ripple Community, Inc. (a Mosaic Conference-Related Ministry in Allentown, PA). They will serve others in the kitchen at Whitehall (PA), where I am a pastor. When the check comes in, they buy their pastor a thank-you present. Like the widow who gave her last mite, they keep on giving. I can learn a lot about resilience from these friends. I also need to learn what my role is as I desire to help them.  

Neighbors gather at Ripple Community, Inc. for food and times of reflection. Photos provided by Ripple Community, Inc.  
Neighbors gather at Ripple Community, Inc. for food and times of reflection. Photos provided by Ripple Community, Inc.  

The greatest gift we can give someone is to offer support without taking away their sense of control or dignity. So, we walk alongside people; we offer comfort but allow them freedom of choice. This is how Immanuel, God-with-us, works with humanity.  

We ask them what they need. This is what Jesus did with people that he healed. We find ways they can contribute or serve. Let them know they belong and that their gifts are needed in the body of Christ. We listen to their stories of falling and getting back up again. The hope that undergirds these stories is inspiring.  

We create spaces where they can have some respite from the grind of life. Psalm 23 depicts God’s table of abundance, likely in a tent of safety, while enemies prowl outside. At Ripple Community, Inc., there is a quiet room designated for community members to sleep in a safe and warm place.  They can rest from having to guard their meager belongings. Someone else is keeping watch. Rest can provide the opportunity to dream and imagine a new way forward.  

Studies show that one marker of resilience is having a strong community network. It’s easier when we are all in the shallow end of the swimming pool together. When we get splashed, we can breathe without snorting water. When a crisis comes, we have lots of margin and our hands are free to support others when they slip.  

In this new year, instead of making a list of resolutions, consider what practices will help you be more resilient. Prayerfully reflect on how you can accompany others who are struggling. And be open to learning from them. Because together we will increase the capacity of our community to adapt and thrive in the face of hard times.   

Rose Bender Cook

Rose Bender Cook is the Leadership Minister for Formation and the Mosaic Institute Director. She is also a pastor at Whitehall (PA) Mennonite Church.

Trusting in the Spirit Who Brings Unity

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by Rose Bender Cook

Based on a sermon preached at Whitehall (PA) Mennonite on 16 June 2024 from Ephesians 4:1-6. 

Since Pentecost, I have been thinking a lot about the Holy Spirit (#MosaicTogether2024). Mosaic’s strategic plan calls for a common definition of what it means to be Spirit-led. Recently, I have been led to consider how it is the work of the Spirit to bring unity.    

1 Cor 12:13 says, “For we were all baptized by one Spirit to form one body.” (NIV) The implication is that it’s not my job as a pastor or a Mosaic staff member to bring unity to the church.   

And yet I long for unity. Or at the very least, a deep respect and appreciation for one another that allows us to live and minister together in the body of Christ.    

Recently, I invited eight members of the Whitehall congregation to answer questions that would reveal some of our differences: where was your father born? How many languages do you speak? What do you eat for breakfast? I wanted to show how different we are, and that by the power of the Spirit, we have been placed into one congregation– baptized into one large Body of Christ. As it happened, the answers were so different – including the breakfast foods. Only one of these persons was raised Mennonite. 

In his book, Humility Illuminated, Dennis Edwards reminds his readers of the Pauline teaching that the position or current location of believers is in Christ. It’s not our geography, language, or even our theology that should unite us. Rather, it is our position in the body of Christ. That is where the Spirit puts us and that is what makes unity possible.   

Paul reminds the first century Christians in Ephesus that Jesus broke down the dividing wall and created one new humanity. So that, whether they are Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian or Scythian—they are now one in Christ.  

Of course, we have our own categories of US and THEM—whether its theology, language, practices we consider faithful or unfaithful, worship styles, economic or education levels, what country we were born in, or what last names we have.   

I wonder if Paul were writing a letter to Mosaic Conference—what categories would he have included? “In Christ there is no longer _____ or _____. “  

Though it is the work of the Spirit to unite us, we have a role to play too. Ephesians 4:3 says, “Make every effort (as far as it depends on you) to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.” 

How do we keep the unity of the Spirit? In verse 2 Paul tells us to be completely humble, gentle, patient, and bearing with one another in love.  

Humility, gentleness, patience, and love that invites me to bear with my siblings in Christ—these are the qualities I need to cultivate.  

I am being convicted that I am not the gatekeeper of the church or the one who needs to create unity. That is the work of the Spirit. I have plenty to do in examining the posture of my own heart and seek to keep the unity the Spirit has already established.    

As a response, my prayer this summer has been something like this:   

Spirit, soften my heart—may it be gentle and humble like Jesus’ 
Grant me patience to see others as you see them,  
To wait upon your timing 
To trust in your transforming work in my own life and in the lives of others. 
And help me swim in the ocean of your abundant and gracious love.
For your kingdom and your glory.
In Jesus name. Amen.   

May it be so.   

Members of Whitehall Mennonite answering questions. Represented were Indonesian, Nicaraguan, Sgaw Karen, Poe Karen persons and people whose ancestors immigrated from Western European countries.

Rose Bender Cook

Rose Bender Cook is the Leadership Minister for Formation and the Mosaic Institute Director. She is also a pastor at Whitehall (PA) Mennonite Church.

Workshop on Discernment Available for Mosaic Congregations and Ministries

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by Jennifer Svetlik

During the June Mosaic board retreat, Leadership Ministers Rose Bender Cook and Noel Santiago offered a two-hour interactive equipping workshop to help create more shared language within Mosaic around discernment work.  

In July, Mosaic staff and Pathways Steering Team members, along with board members who were not present at the retreat, joined virtually to participate in this discernment training.  

The groups were invited to reflect on questions such as:  

  1. How would you describe the difference between discernment and decision making? 
  2. What do you think is needed to have a good corporate decision-making process?  What are unhealthy practices that prevent good discernment? 

Quoting from Henri Nouwen, Director of Collaborative Ministries Margaret Zook (Salford [Harleysville, PA]) shared, “As discerning people, we sift through our impulses, motives, and options to discover which ones lead us closer to divine love… Discernment reveals new priorities, directions, and gifts from God.” 

Gary Alloway (Redemption Church of Bristol [PA]) shared, “Discernment assumes I don’t yet have what I need and must be open to imagination and creativity.”  

Others reflected on the importance of setting group ground rules; listening well; asking the right questions; offering enough time for learning, listening, and reflection; finding courage to and having a safe space to speak up; and doing inner spiritual work to listen to God, prior to engaging in the group process.  

“All voices need to be at the table, not just for listening but to be empowered to speak up and be a part of the process,” encouraged board member Maati Yvonne Platts (Nueva Vida Norristown [PA] New Life).  

A communal storytelling of John 9 was also a central piece of the session, to help the group think together about the barriers to discernment or seeing God at work among us or in others. There was individual and group reflection on which of the story’s characters are most relatable, the emotions, motives, and power dynamics present, and how this story speaks into each’s leader’s discernment approaches and challenges.  

Bender Cook and Santiago drew on the book Pursuing God’s Will Together by Ruth Haley Barton to share about healthy group discernment practices. They offered several resources for continued individual and group reflection and processes.  

“The reflection on John 9 was a good springboard for discussion on spiritual vision,” shared Barbara Musselman (Zion [Souderton, PA]), who participated in the board equipping session in Vermont, with her spouse Jim Musselman, who is on the board.  

“I had many takeaways. One of them was that discernment is breaking out of our usual binary of either/or thinking to find a new way of moving forward as co-conspirators in God’s Kingdom.” After the session, Musselman asked Bender Cook and Santiago if they would be willing to lead a similar session with the board and spiritual council at Zion.  

“I look forward to wrestling with this and putting it into practice with my congregation,” she says. 

Bender Cook and Santiago are also open to leading a session for your congregation or Conference-Related Ministry. The workshop can be offered in person or on Zoom and interpretation is available. Bender Cook and Santiago are also available to preach on discernment with the John 9 text. Please reach out to them if interested in these possibilities.  

“Ultimately, we can attend discernment workshops, but the real work begins in how we live into those practices both individually and corporately,” encourages Bender Cook. 

Jennifer Svetlik

Jennifer is Editor / Development Coordinator for Mosaic. She grew up near Houston, TX and spent a decade living in intentional community in Washington DC, before moving to Lansdale, PA with her spouse, Sheldon Good. She is a graduate of the University of Texas and Washington Theological Seminary. She serves as Children’s Faith Formation Director at Salford Mennonite (Harleysville, PA). Jenn has two elementary-school-aged children and loves biking, camping, gardening, and vermicomposting with her family. 

Visioning for the Hard Work of Leadership 

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by Rose Bender Cook

Being an effective leader is hard work. Healthy leaders with integrity, humility, courage, and vision seem rare. In our current political arena, power conflicts and personal agendas prevent collaboration and creative problem-solving. In our congregations, conferences, and denomination, we have similar challenges. It’s a difficult time to lead. Leaders need our prayers.   

This year, I started the Doctor of Ministry (D.Min) in Leadership program at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS). Initially, I spent time assessing my strengths and weaknesses and realized I have blind spots I don’t even recognize yet. As I look back over 13 years as a pastor at Whitehall (PA) and reflect on my new position at Mosaic, I am humbled. This is sacred work. I want to be effective, but even more, I want to be faithful. 

Scripture teaches us much about leadership. I am convicted when I read about Moses’ workaholism, over-functioning, and lack of time with family which had to be corrected by his father-in-law (Exodus 18). I identify with Elijah’s repeated narrative that he was the only one left to do God’s work (1 Kings 19). I am challenged by Esther’s courage to be a voice for her people at great personal risk (Esther 8). I am inspired by Peter’s willingness to adapt when he witnessed the outpouring of the Spirit at Cornelius’ home (Acts 10).

Then, there is Jesus. His times of prayer grounded him so that he wasn’t swayed by the pressure of the crowd (Mark 1: 35-39). He was focused on the plan of the Father, and yet flexible, stopping to raise the son of the widow of Nain (Luke 7) and healing the daughter of the Syrophoenician woman (Mark 7).    

As a part of the D.Min program, I was asked to develop a vision statement for my leadership growth.  After prayer, discernment, and some fear and trembling, I submitted this: 

To be grounded, gracious, and Spirit-led–opening space for everyone to take their place at God’s table.   

Each part of that vision invites me to growth and into spaces that are uncomfortable. I wonder if I can live up to this call. Will I apply the discipline it takes to stay grounded? Will I grow in joyful patience and generous love so I can be truly gracious? Will I surrender my ego and agenda to follow the Spirit’s prompting?  

Will I be able to imagine the big table of God (Luke 13: 29-30; 14:21-23) which looks different from the table I would set? How will I clear space for those who have no power to share their voice? How do I welcome others as Christ has welcomed me? (Romans 15:7) How do I love the stranger, the enemy, as well as the brother or sister who comes from a different theological perspective than I do?   

There are plenty of times where it seems easier to throw in the towel on this leadership journey.  According to the scriptures, I am in good company. But I serve a God who is faithful, who always provides what is needed to live into the call we’ve been given.  

I pray for discernment as I listen to the Spirit and for the courage to obey. As I relate to other leaders and those in my care, I want to be loving, tender-hearted, and humble (1 Peter 3:8). This is God’s church, God’s table, God’s mission, and I have been invited to join. Instead of relying on my own leadership abilities, I will trust fully in the One who began this good work and will bring it to completion (Phil 1:6).   

Rose Bender Cook

Rose Bender Cook is the Leadership Minister for Formation and the Mosaic Institute Director. She is also a pastor at Whitehall (PA) Mennonite Church.

Creating Opportunities for Jesus-Centered Formation to Talk Across Difference

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ROSE BENDER COOK STAFF PROFILE

by Jennifer Svetlik

“I believe being formed in the way of Jesus means we operate differently than the broader culture around us which divides and puts people into camps,” shares Rose Bender Cook, Leadership Minister for Formation for Mosaic Conference. “In this role, I hope to help those within our Conference explore how we think, respond, talk to, and love one another even when we disagree.” 

Bender Cook has served as Interim Leadership Minister for Formation since October 2023, and in January 2024 transitioned to permanent status. Mosaic Conference has a Leadership Minister for each of its three priorities (missional, formational, and intercultural).  

“In this role, I work with the formation team to equip and support our credentialed leaders, congregations, and Conference-Related Ministries so they can be formed more and more into the image of Christ,” Bender Cook explains.  

“Formation is about the spiritual disciplines and practices that we engage in as disciples of Jesus. It is about being transformed so that we live out the prayer to do God’s will ‘on earth as it is in heaven’.” 

Since 2021 Bender Cook has helped lead Mosaic Institute, first as a curriculum developer and adjunct professor, then as Assistant Director, and then Director. 

“As a pastor, I am always thinking about formation for the congregation I serve, and in this new role, I will be challenged to think more broadly about creating spaces where we can all be formed by the Word of God and the Spirit’s work in one another,” reflects Bender Cook. 

Bender Cook with Whitehall congregation, where she is a pastor, on their annual covenant renewal Sunday in November 2023. Photo by Patti Connolly. 

Originally from Wellman, IA, her first profession was as a social studies teacher for sixteen years. In 2010, she became the pastor of Whitehall (PA) Mennonite. For four years she worked as an adjunct professor for Eastern Mennonite University’s STEP Program, and she has also worked as a research assistant.  

“I have done a lot of curricula writing over the years, so this new role is a perfect combination of teaching, designing curricula, and pastoring,” Bender Cook says. “Through the Pathways process, we have heard that congregations want support in navigating difficult conversations, so that is something we will be working on in 2024,” she adds. 

Through her role as a pastor at Whitehall, Rose served on the Conference credentialing committee for three terms (12 years) and now serves on the ministerial committee.  

Bender Cook snuggles her new grandson at Christmastime. Photo by Rose Bender Cook. 

In her free time, Bender Cook enjoys walking her beagle, Bailey, reading or listening to books, doing puzzles in the winter, playing board games, quilting, and cheering on the Iowa Hawkeyes. Bender Cook also coached girls’ basketball for over ten years. When she was in high school, she played the six-on-six version (Iowa was the last state to switch to five-on-five). 

“Since November, though, being a grandma tops the list! My grandchild lives about six hours away but whenever I can get a snuggle, I am there for it!” Bender Cook shares.  

Jennifer Svetlik

Jennifer is Communication Associate/Editor for Mosaic. She grew up near Houston, TX and spent a decade living in intentional community in Washington DC, before moving to Lansdale, PA with her spouse, Sheldon Good. She is a graduate of the University of Texas and Washington Theological Seminary. She serves as Children’s Faith Formation Director at Salford Mennonite (Harleysville, PA). Jenn has two elementary-school-aged children and loves biking, camping, gardening, and vermicomposting with her family. 

Mosaic Institute: Finding Our Place in God’s Story 

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By: Rose Bender Cook

All newly credentialed leaders in Mosaic Conference are required to take four courses from the Mosaic Institute. These courses introduce them to Anabaptist history and Mosaic Conference priorities as well as help foster collegial relationships across geography and culture. 

One of the assignments in the first course is called, “Great Cloud of Witnesses.”  Students choose from a list of noteworthy Anabaptists that spans 500 years (e.g., Felix Manz, Christopher Dock, Anne Allebach, Clayton Kratz, and James and Rowena Lark) and present a first-person monologue of their character.   

Over years of teaching this course, I have noticed that the students are less likely to choose from the list of names on the syllabus.  More often, they want to research people that connect their story to the larger Anabaptist story.  These are some recent questions students have asked me: 

  • “Can I research how the Anabaptist movement went to Indonesia?”  
  • “I want to interview Ransford Nicholson and learn about the Jamaican Mennonite Conference.”   
  • “I grew up in the beautiful village of Abiriba, Nigeria, and it had Mennonite doctors and nurses. Can I research how and why they came to that village?”  

As they research and share these new-to-me stories, I am learning history, too.   

During the course, students share their own pathway to Anabaptism. We also learn early Anabaptist history through original source documents and John Roth’s book, Stories: How Mennonites Came to Be.  We learn Mosaic Conference history by going to the Mennonite Heritage Center (Harleysville, PA) and by connecting with congregational leaders and local Conference Related Ministries.   

The students and I hear the story of God’s people in the past and develop relationships that help us imagine God’s future story.  As we learn about people and places like Menno Simons, the Germantown (PA) Meetinghouse, the formation of Norristown (PA) Nueva Vida New Life, we hear the testimony of God’s call to a life of peace and justice after living through genocide in Burundi; we learn what it means to be faithful to God’s call while organizing with the Poor People’s Campaign in New York; and, we hear about experiments of immigrants becoming pastors in predominantly English-speaking congregations.  

Though teaching the traditional curriculum is still important, a higher priority for the Mosaic Institute is that students find themselves in the Anabaptist story and in the even grander story of God’s church. 

Ministers and leaders gathered for a Mosaic Institute course in May 2023. Left to right: Steve Kriss, Executive Minister; Rose Bender Cook, Mosaic Institute Director; Effiem Obasi Otah of Faith Chapel (CA); Marcos Acosta of Homestead Mennonite Church (FL); Joe Paperone, connected to Bethany Mennonite Church (VT); Mukarabe Makinto of Faith Chapel (CA), and Sherilee Samuels of College Hill Mennonite Church (FL).

Photo provided by Rose Bender Cook.

At Whitehall (PA) Mennonite Church, where I am one of the pastors, we are in a series called Build Your Church, Lord, and we have been asking members to pray this phrase daily.  I have been amazed (once again) by the church in Acts. In the face of persecution and divisive conflict, the church is still ultimately one of widening the circle of Jewish Christians, Samaritan Christians, Ethiopian Christians, and Gentile Christians.  The Spirit leads the way.  Each group finds its place in God’s story.   

In the current milieu of Christian nationalism and culture wars that seemingly define the issues that divide our congregations and our conference, my experiences with Mosaic Institute classes ground and remind me of the long and wide story of God’s people and God’s church.  I am convinced that our Conference name is both descriptive and prophetic. We are Mosaic, and we are becoming more so—in all the beauty and richness.   

Continue to build your church, Lord.  May your glory and your kingdom come on earth, as it is in heaven. Amen.

Rose Bender Cook

Rose Bender Cook is the Interim Leadership Minister for Formation and the Mosaic Institute Director. She is also a pastor at Whitehall (PA) Mennonite Church.

Congregational Profile: Whitehall Mennonite Church

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by Rose Bender, pastor

Whitehall Mennonite Church began in the early 1990s when retired pastor, Bob Walter, was out sailing and felt the call to plant a new church in the Lehigh Valley.  He had a dream to create a place for those who were weary from life, giving them a place to belong and to share the good news of the gospel. Despite support from other Franconia Conference churches, forming this new fellowship was a challenge. There were many times that they almost gave up.  But the community people who came found a welcoming home and received lots of practical support. 

Today, WMC carries that same spirit of hospitality and care for the community.  In 2009, the congregation supported a refugee family from Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). This experience has changed the face and enlarged the heart of the congregation. Half of the congregation is now Karen-speaking. Karen songs, scripture, and greetings are a part of our common life. Each Sunday we gather after worship to eat together. The variety in food reflects the variety in our congregational culture.  We often say that this eclectic group of people would not be together if it were not for Jesus.  

Pastor Melky wanted those gathered on the last Sunday of 2019 to take a silly picture! (Photo credit: Melky Tirtasaputra)

Born out of a missional experiment, our congregation has always been willing to experiment with new ways of being church together. We have frequently invited young leaders like Samantha Lioi, Danilo Sanchez, and many summer interns to join our work.

Most recently we called Melky Tirtasaputra, a newly-credentialled leader from Nation’s Worship Center (Philadelphia), to be our associate pastor.  This is the first time that an Indonesian pastor will be leading a non-Indonesian congregation in our conference. Melky and his wife, Vina, bring spiritual maturity, hospitality, stability, and an entrepreneurial vision that the congregation needs.  The congregation will provide an opportunity for them to test out their gifts as they prepare to do church planting in the future.  

Pastor Rose Bender gives a congregational gift thanking Pastor Danilo Sanchez for his ministry at WMC. (Photo credit: Melky Tirtasaputra)

The congregational focus for 2020 is “Leadership as Discipleship.”  We have restructured our leadership team to create more opportunities for growth. We also continue to work at increasing our intercultural capacity.  Ah Paung, one of our servant leaders, said, “We practice here for what is already happening around the throne room: many nations, many languages, many tribes praising the living God.”  

Prayer Requests:  

  • Discipleship training and maturity
  • Creativity and stability
  • Openness to the leading of the Spirit