Eric Massanari serves as the executive conference minister for the Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA. He is also a trained spiritual director and is currently serving as... read more →
Shirley Yoder Brubaker, a retired pastor and educator, is a member of Park View Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She and her husband, Kenton, reside at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community.... read more →
Marlene Kropf is a spiritual director and retreat leader. She is retired from denominational ministry and from teaching at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana. She lives in Port... read more →
Sherill Hostetter is a retired ordained minister, HR/member care director, spiritual director, coach and consultant. After serving in Nigeria, Swaziland and Pennsylvania, she now resides in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and is... read more →
Gwen Gustafson-Zook is an ordained pastor in MC USA and is currently completing a year-long chaplaincy residency at Portland Providence Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. Thanks to Zoom, she is... read more →
Mary Lou Weaver Houser, as an artist and spiritual director, claims gardening as a metaphor for how she intends to nurture community on many levels, whether with personal/family relationships, neighborhood... read more →
Eric Massanari is a chaplain at Kidron Bethel Village in North Newton, Kansas and a trained spiritual director. He is a member of the Mennonite Spiritual Directors Network steering committee... read more →
Mag Richer Smith has been a Mennonite pastor for 42 years, serving churches in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa. Now she finds that her time with her grandchildren is the most... read more →
Leslie James is a retired medical librarian and worship planner. She is also co-author, with Karmen Krahn, of “Proclamation by Design: The visual arts in worship” (Faith and Life Resources,... read more →
Ruben Chupp retired from full-time pastoral ministry after 28 years and now serves as an on-call chaplain at Goshen (Indiana) Health. He offers spiritual direction and works at two local... read more →
Sally Weaver Glick is from Goshen, Indiana, where she is a spiritual director and a congregational doula at Open Table Mennonite Fellowship. She is database administrator for Mennonite Spiritual Directors... read more →
June Mears Driedger is co-director of The Hermitage (www.hermitagecommunity.org), a contemplative retreat center, offering spiritual direction and retreats in Three Rivers, Michigan. She is a member of the Mennonite Spiritual... read more →
Jane Roeschley is currently continuing to settle into early retirement, which is overlapping with COVID-19. She sees spiritual directees via Zoom, is grateful to be part of spiritual gatherings and... read more →
Written by Evan J. Miller, a spiritual director from Goshen, Indiana, who is a staff member at Pathways Retreat, a spiritual retreat center for rest, renewal and reflection in... read more →
Jane Hoober Peifer moved to Harrisonburg, Virginia after retiring from pastoral ministry at Blossom Hill Mennonite Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in September of 2013. She continues ministry as a... read more →