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What does my pastor do all day?

Rachel Ringenberg Miller explains how pastors fill their work week with various activities that congregants may or may not be aware of,  answering the question, "What does my pastor do... read more →
  • July 3, 2024
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Where do pastors come from?

Rachel Ringenberg Miller uses her own experience to offer ideas to help congregations raise up the next generation of pastors from within. Rachel Ringenberg Miller serves as denominational minister for... read more →
  • June 5, 2024
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A Collaboration: Anabaptist leadership

Rachel Ringenberg Miller reminds us that Anabaptist congregational leadership requires collaboration, from the leaders and from the congregation. The process to make changes takes time, but the inclusive nature of... read more →
  • October 17, 2023
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AAMA releases online curriculum for Black church leaders

By Jessica Griggs for Mennonite Church USA ELKHART, Ind. (Mennonite Church USA) — The African American Mennonite Association (AAMA), one of the racial ethnic groups that make up the Racial... read more →
  • January 31, 2023
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A Christ-like approach to leading polarized people (with video)

By Heidi Regier Kreider, conference minister for Western District Conference of Mennonite Church USA. She originally wrote this for Western District Conference's Sprouts newsletter. _______________ In December, Mennonite Church USA conference... read more →
  • February 11, 2021
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Tips for working from home

Michael Danner is the associate executive director for Church Vitality for Mennonite Church USA. For most of my professional life, I have been self-directed in my work. That means that... read more →
  • April 8, 2020
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MC USA leaders Journey Forward at spring meetings

Members of the Executive Board and Constituency Leaders Council talk in By MC USA Communications staff, with Sheldon C. Good of The Mennonite and Paul Schrag... read more →
  • April 19, 2018
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Leaders of the future: Love, take courage, imagine and don’t go it alone

Iris de León-Hartshorn is the director of Transformative Peacemaking for Mennonite Church USA. This is the third in a three-part blog series based on a presentation Iris gave on leadership at Eastern... read more →
  • March 13, 2018
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Leadership: Bridges to Cross

Iris de León-Hartshorn is the director of Transformative Peacemaking for Mennonite Church USA. This is the second in a three-part blog series based on a presentation Iris gave on leadership... read more →
  • March 1, 2018
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Leadership: God calls broken vessels

Iris de León-Hartshorn is the director of Transformative Peacemaking for Mennonite Church USA. This is the first in a three-part blog series based on a presentation Iris gave on leadership... read more →
  • February 7, 2018
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Leadership 101

Nancy Kauffmann is denominational minister for Mennonite Church USA. I traveled to Saipan under Mennonite Disaster Service and FEMA last month. Our group was to repair homes that had been... read more →
  • March 16, 2017
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Jesus’ counter-cultural community

Linda Gehman Peachey is a freelance writer living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She has a Master of Divinity degree from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and is currently a Doctor of Ministry... read more →
  • October 7, 2016
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  • Menno Snapshots, Women in Leadership