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p a n o r a m aCelebrating with the people and congregations of Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference S p r i n g 2015
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New conference minister tours the
territory
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Think you knowMennonite churches?
Prepare to be surprised
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Two closing PSMC ministries plantedseeds in good soil
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Praise and thanks forthe ministry of
Dick Davis
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How PSMCersreach out beyond
our borders
Full Circle Thrift projectquickly taking shapeWith help from churches around PSMC, work isrolling ahead on opening a thrift shop in thePasadena area –– the first step toward establishing a new Anabaptist Resource Center
It has an enthusiastic launch team, ithas several huge containers fullof donated articles, and it has a
name. PSMC’s new thrift store,Full Circle Thrift, will, God will-ing, open in the next few monthsin the Pasadena area.
The name and logo chosenthrough an online survey is a reflec-tion of the ways the store will recycle used articles andinvest profits back into Kingdom work. The logo’s famil-iar three-leaf pattern will subtly remind us of its identityas a Mennonite project. Full Circle Thrift will providethe financial foundation for a new and exciting center forconference congregations, tentatively called theAnabaptist Resource Center, that PSMC hopes to estab-lish –– envisioned as a place that would supply resourcesfrom MC USA, Everence, MCC and PSMC, as well asdeliver immigration services, offer financial planning forchurches and pastors, hold Anabaptist classes and more.
But Full Circle Thrift will also create jobs for the com-munity, recycle good used clothing and other items andpromote the Anabaptist commitment to peace, justice andenvironmental care.
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Summer Assembly June 19-20
Fresno gathering promises to be extra-special,with a Saturday night worship concert and a taste of Camp Keola for youth and families
Areunion, a concert, a mountain getaway, a chance toexperience the faithfulness and diversity of brothersand sisters from across California, Arizona and
Nevada. This year’s summer assembly promises to be all thatand, well, maybe just a little bit of business. If you’ve neverbeen to a regional gathering like this, come and be surprised.
The theme of Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference’s2015 summer assembly, being held in Fresno from Fridaynight, June 19, to Sunday, June 21, is “One in Christ,” basedon 1 Cor. 12:12-13:13. Every one of the 40-plus churches in PSMC should be send-
ing delegates, but you don’t have to be an official delegate to
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New conference minister plunges in
Our conference minister’s local office in a historic train depot in Fresno was recently displaced by California’s high-speed rail project, which bought the building in order to avoid problems with tenants as construction proceeds. But shefound new digs at 764 P St. in Fresno, with the project paying compensation for increased rent. For several years, the offi-cial conference office, in Southern California, has consisted of a room at Upland Peace Church that’s sparsely staffed andrarely visited by constituents. As the Anabaptist Resource Center is developed, it’s expected office functions will move to anew setting with more to offer visitors.
Clare Ann Ruth-Heffelbower has been gettingaround our far-flung Pacific Southwest region oflate, holding a series of “Meet the New
Conference Minister” gatherings. “As these gatherings ofone or more churches I have been asking a series of ques-tions,” she reports: “What are your dreams and hopes forPMSC? What concerns do you have about PSMC? Howcan PSMC help your congregation? What can you asindividuals and congregations contribute to PSMC? Wehave had great conversation around these questions.”
The responses, she notes, often involve developingstronger connections so that we can do together what wecan’t do alone.
Ruth-Heffelbower shares her own hopes and dreamsfor the area conference: that we grow closer as a diversefamily of church and are able to model how peoplediverse theologically, cultural and geographically can loveone another, and that we help one another carry out themission God has given us to bring healing and hope toour world.
Some opportunities for that include working togetheron Full Circle Thrift and attending the Summer Assemblyin Fresno, June 19-20.
“We are a relatively small conference, but God hasgiven us great opportunities!” Ruth-Heffelbower noted ina recent e-Update to churches. “The mustard seed imageis very appropriate for us. Jesus uses it in two differentways — ‘I tell you the truth, if your faith is as big asa mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, “Move
from here to there,” and it will move. All things will bepossible for you.’ (Matthew 17:20) Then Jesussaid, ‘What is God’s kingdom like? What can I compareit with? It is like a mustard seed that a man plants in hisgarden. The seed grows and becomes a tree, and the wildbirds build nests in its branches.’ (Luke 13:19)
“If we work together with God, we can do great thingsfrom the small beginnings that we have,” Ruth-Heffelbower wrote. “This is God’s dream for PSMC!”
Clare Ann Ruth-Heffelbower visits Caroline andJoseph Adeosun of Amen Ministries, a church plantin Las Vegas, in early May.
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PSMC appoints Advancement Minister
Six leaders from PSMC congregations participated ina “Come and See” learning tour of Palestine and
Israel in April, part of a denominational initiative to send100 Mennonite leaders to the region over five years.
While Mennonites have been involved in relief work,service, witness and peacemaking in the region for morethan 65 years, these tours are a response to a 2009 appealfrom Palestinian Christians called “Kairos Palestine: AMoment of Truth” (www.kairospalestine.ps).
This trip, with the assistance of MCC and MMN,included leaders from the Pacific Northwest andSouthwest conferences. Participants from PSMC includ-ed moderator Femi Fatunmbi (Royal Dominion), assis-tant moderator Kathi Oswald (Fresno), board memberJoyce Welch (Family Mennonite), pastors Rina Kusuma(Upland Peace) and Juan Montes (Reedley), and Mark
Joe Roos, former pastor at Pasadena Mennonite, hasbeen appointed by the board of Pacific Southwest
Mennonite Conference to serve as its new AdvancementMinister, a part-time position overseeing conferencefundraising. Roos, who served in a similar position withSojourners, is also serving in an unpaid capacity as theboard’s treasurer.
Tina Schlabach of Tucson has been named secretary ofthe board, replacing Roos in that role. Pastor Romero,pastor of First Mennonite Paso Robles, who has servedseveral years on the Pastoral Leadership Committee – thebody that vets and approves candidates for licensing andordination – becomes the committee’s chairperson.
Summer Assembly
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take part. Several things will be different about thisAssembly. Workshops will be offered during theSaturday lunch break, and rather than ending Saturdayafternoon, activities will continue through Sunday noon,June 21, with a tri-tip barbecue Saturday night, followedby a Music Celebration concert featuring different musi-cal expressions from diverse congregations on Saturdayevening.
For younger attenders, there will be special activities forchildren entering grades 1-6. For youth entering grades 7-12, there will be a lock-in sleepover Friday night, withgames, activities and food, followed by time at CampKeola Saturday through Sunday, including a service pro-ject, a campfire, hiking and lots of fun. Adults whowould like to get a taste of Camp Keola are invited to doso from Sunday afternoon to Monday noon following theAssembly. Details will be sent out following registration.Check out the brochure and register online soon!
The summer assembly is being planned and hosted byMennonite Community Church, 5015 East Olive Ave.,Fresno. Visit pacificsouthwest.org to learn more and reg-ister online.
You can take a look at the delegate workbook here:pacificsouthwest.org/news-events/delegate-assemblies/
Full Circle Thrift takes shape
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The location committee isactively seeking a site of around5000 square feet, goods for salecontinue to flow in, and, best ofall, 80% of the funds needed toopen the store have been raised,with less than $18,000 left to go.
How can you help?• Donate: Churches around theconference have been collectingitems to provide the store with agood start-up inventory and find-ing ways to get them to the collection site at Mountain View Mennonite inUpland. First Mennonite San Francisco’s members, for example, sent theirdonations south in a rental truck that made stops in the Central Valley to col-lect other churches’ goods. • Keep in touch: You can keep track of how the project is going by “liking”the Facebook page at facebook.com/FullCircleThrift?fref=ts• Give: ‘Seed money’ donations are gratefully received for this project. Pleasemail a check to PSMC, Full Circle Thrift, PO Box 39038, Phoenix, AZ,85069. Or, even easier, donate online: go to pacificsouthwest.org/donate/ andclick on Donate and then ‘Mustard Seed Giving Partners.’• Pray: Mission Minister David Gray, who is leading the project, invites yourprayers for the launch team, especially as it seeks a suitable location.
Mark Schildt, Femi Fatunmbi and Juan Montes wereamong the PSMC participants in the learning tour.
Learning tour takes
leaders to Palestine
Schildt, MVS coordinator at Shalom Mennonite inTucson. These individuals are available to share theirexperiences and learnings with congregations.
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nities. "Our little church really works hard at pullingtogether" the various strands of Anabaptism, Hofer said.
The challenge for such a body is growth and change.It's easy to become stagnant, Hofe said. "We have to keepfinding edges where we can do some experimentation,can grow, do things differently."
There are many transient attenders, students for exam-ple, who come for a season. But for longtime members,"It'’s easier for us to step back into our regular ways ofdoing things," and that may make newcomers less com-fortable,she said.
Jerry Linscheid said his congregation has been, in asense, multicultural since its beginnings, with
Mennonites from Swiss and German extraction comingtogether early in the last century, then an influx of newCalifornians in the 1950s.
A Hispanic church plant begun in the '80s, instead ofspinning away, spun itself into the fabric of the congrega-tion, with the English- and Spanish-speaking congrega-tions merging into a single church with two weekly ser-vices in 1996.
Barbara Ewy, who has been working with children inthe church since before the merger, says there have beenvarious adjustments to reflect the fact that there are twoservice times each week, among them a switch to having"Sunday school" on Wednesday nights, and running akids club on Sundays. She said investing in Bible storybooks with the new Shine curriculum has paid off in bibli-cal literacy for kids both English- and Spanish-speaking,with many families reading the scripture stories at home.Together, they are learning how to live out the gospel indaily life.
Ewy remembers a particularly touching moment whenher class was using a "prayer cube" to choose what topray for in turn. A boy named Ezekiel said: I don't want toroll the cube, I want to pray for the homeless man that mydad bought a cup of coffee for. And that’s what he did ––he played God’s blessing on this man whose name we didnot know."
Who is PSMC? A home-based congregationnourished by communal suppers and rich litur-gies each week. A French-speaking African
congregation celebrating worship in a small rented roomand yearning to reach out into the community with theGospel. A century-old congregation in a beautiful octag-onal church learning to speak and think bi-culturally. Anaging congregation that has found its "foreign" mission inits own neighborhood.
All that and much more, as attendees at the Februaryassembly at Marantha Christian Fellowship inNorthridge, Calif., discovered, when members of thosefour bodies reflected on the strengths and challenges oftheir congregations.
Joy Hofer, a member of the San Gabriel Valley basedcongregation that may be PSMC's smallest, said the
intimacy of that community is one of its blessings. "Weknow each other very well; we help each other; we’rethere for each other with hot soup or just being there.
"Because we are a house church and don’t have a pas-tor or building to pay for, we are able to support a lot ofprojects –– local projects, Mennonite Central Committee,the conference. And we are happy that we can do that.The hands-on part is that our group is looking at what sortof service project we can do together that will push us pastthe brain-and-talking thing to the deeds-and-working partof faith;
"We have delightful evenings of worship and mealstogether; it’s really fun to be together. The exploration offaith and fellowship around the table are wonderful.
With 10 to 18 people attending a typical gathering,worship is organized by a roster of worship leaders/hosts,centered on written liturgies and communion at everygathering.
Most of the attenders have been lifelong Christians;many have focussed professionally on studying the faithor have done international service. Despite its size, Peaceis also surprisingly ecumenical. It is dually affiliated withthe Brethren in Christ and members have roots in theMennonite Brethren and Church of the Brethren commu-
Think you know what Menno churches are like?
Peace Mennonite Fellowship
First Mennonite Reedley
Members DavidAugsburger and Joy Hoferread a sampling of theliturgy that is a regular partof worship for their housechurch congregation, thisone compiled from thewritings of Menno Simons.
Right, First Mennonite’slovely church campusin Reedley, which houses a bilingual congregation.
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Left, First Mennonite ofPhoenix pastor Al Whaley;Wholicare pastor HelenMfwilwakanda.
Spanish-language pastor Juan Montez pointed out thatthe "present and the future of the church is a multiculturalchurch." The vision of Rev 7: 9-10, of people of all lan-guages celebrating together the victory of Christ, is some-thing "we need to start working on here."
Spanish-speakers at Reedley "respect and see the histo-ry" of the 16th century Anabaptism, which "taught usabout discipleship" and the importance of love and peacein the gospel.
At the same time, both parts of the congregation havelearned lessons from 17 years of "accepting our otherbrother," with all of each other's gifts and weaknesses."At this point we don't feel we're immigrants in FirstMennonite Church. We are brothers and sisters, we areowners of the building. We share the money, we sharelove and peace; and it is a little piece of heaven inCalifornia.”
Pastor Al Whaley has been serving his Phoenix con-gregation since 1978, but his self-deprecating humor
never grows old. “Recently, someone asked: Just howlong have you been at the church, and I said, ‘Since theCarter administration.” A junior high kid standing nearbysaid: ‘Who’s Carter?’ he joked as he began sharing thestory of his congregation’s biggest ministry, working withyouth in a neighborhood that is low on the socio-econom-ic scale and mostly minorities.
“We’re grateful for how God has supplied our needs,”said Whaley, relating how the church has been the recipi-ent of a used van from a California church and anotherfrom Mennonite Mission Network –– which offered thecomment, “You guys are doing foreign missions in yourown neighborhood –– and of donations of cash and freelandscaping from a well-off neighbor who beautifullyrestored the 1910 house next door to the church. Craftfairs and yard sales have also drawn generous donations.
The church also draws spiritual energy from its foodpantry ministry. One Sunday, a guest speaker from one ofthe megachurches in the area heard an announcementrequesting more canned goods and offered a regularmonthly cash contribution to help out. “That’s awesome,”Whaley said. “That enables us to do all kinds of things wewouldn’t be able to do before.”
Wholicare
First Mennonite Phoenix
In the Pacific Southwest, you may be surprised
Aging leadership and a building that’s somewhat worsefor wear –– hosting many 12-step groups keeps thingshopping –– present challenges for First MennonitePhoenix. Yet, in a community 80 percent Hispanic and 8percent African American –– 90 percent of whose kidsget federal aid for breakfast and lunch –– this otherwisetraditional Mennonite congregation is working cross-cul-turally to meet the needs of kids with a safe, loving placeto gather, with Christ at the center.
“It’s been interesting to watch the kids in the youthgroup grow. We recently played the Billy Graham filmMy Hope for Heaven,” Whaley said. “ On viewing it,two-thirds of the kids had a commitment or recommit-ment to Christ: 20 or 25 kids. That’s an answer to prayer.”
Pastor Helen Mfwilwakanda’s ministry has a long her-itage: her father, now 93, founded Wholicare
Community Missionary Church in 1991. The largelyCongolese and Cameroonian congregation, mainlyFrench-speaking, joined PSMC nearly four years ago.
“The blessing in our church is young people,”Mfwilwakanda said, referring especially to the youth whoably led worship during the February assembly (see coverphoto). “We have put youth ministry and choir together.They are very committed; they love the Lord, and theymeet every Friday to rehearse, and on Saturday they meetat 3 p.m. for prayer. If you are young and you learn tolove the Lord at such a young age it is such a blessing inyour life.”
The church has regular women’s meetings and Biblestudies, despite being hampered by having a small rentedchapel where they can meet only on Sunday afternoons.
Still, the church feels challenged to develop its evange-lization program. “The need is so great; so many peopleneed to know about Jesus Christ ... that’s the part that weneed prayer and more support,” she said.
Worship at Wholicare is a very joyful affair and oneMfwilwakanda hopes more PSMCers can enjoy. “Yousee we dance for the Lord; we need to learn here on Earthhow to do it in Heaven,” she says. “We worship full ofenergy, full of joy, and we love the Lord and we want tohave you come and visit us.”
Position availableMennonite InsuranceServices (Reedley CA)seeks an outside salesperson. The ideal can-didate will be familiarwith Anabaptist church-es, have an outgoingpersonality, experiencein sales, and knowledgeof personal lines insur-ance. The companyinsures members inWA, OR, CA and AZ. Salary commensuratewith experience.Excellent benefit pack-age. For more informa-tion or to apply, [email protected]
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Koinonia Mennonite Fellowship in Chandler, Ariz.,has joyfully welcomed members of the large fami-ly belonging to a Rwandan Tutsi refugee original-
ly from Congo, who told his story at last year’s SummerAssembly of PSMC at Trinity Mennonite Church inGlendale, Ariz. (His story also appeared in the last issueof Panorama, under the pseudonym of Daniel to protectthe safety of his children back home.) Daniel’s story islong and difficult one of exile, arrest, imprisonment andtorture for his work on behalf of Hutus who faced vio-lence, rape and oppression under the government ofRwanda, as well as his advocacy for fellow refugees inBurundi. He and his family faced constant threats beforeand after his escape to asylum in the U.S. in 2013.
Daniel’s wife and six biological children were reunitedwith him in mid-January, however his five other chil-dren –– orphans whom the couple adopted when no rela-tives could be found to take them in –– are still waiting forpaperwork needed to travel to the U.S.
In addition to showering the family with donateditems, Koinonia has established a Refugee RelocationFund to help with the costs of bringing over the other chil-dren, and a Refugee Family Support Fund to help takecare of the family’s needs in Arizona and in Africa. At arecent congregational meeting, members unanimouslyvoted to invest the church’s building fund cash in a housethat will provide for the family’s immediate housingneeds, while also being a sound financial investment.
House of Promise Sunnyslope, an outgrowth ofSunnyslope Mennonite Church’s 27-year House of
Refuge ministry to homeless people in Phoenix, got aboost recently from Everence. The Everence NationalChapter, which includes members from many states, pro-
As the Spirit leadsHow PSMC folk are living out
their faith in the Southwest
vided a grant to help remodel a home for single womencommitted to developing skills to overcome homeless-ness.
New, more secure windows and doors were installedon a Phoenix home, and an annex was built to hold awasher and dryer. Volunteers from Sunnyslope and othernearby churches supplied the labor for the project, withRon Frey, Everence National Chapter board member,providing supervisory skills. Jim Smith, church relationsrepresentative for Everence, helped organize the effort.The chapter grant program provides assistance to localorganizations and causes. The grants are made possiblewhen members purchase many Everence products. ––Adapted from an Everence news release
Pastor Shoua Moua, of the Hmong CommunityChurch in Fresno, and his wife went on a mission trip
to their native Laos and Thailand in April, financed in partwith a fundraiser that included sister congregationMennonite Community. Like most good Mennonitefundraising efforts, it involved food – specifically sales offreshly made egg rolls and sticky rice. The two PSMCcongregations, who meet in the same building, have a tra-dition of sharing meals and food traditions at times suchas a brunch on Easter Sunday.
PSMC pastors gatheraround Daniel at lastsummer’s assembly atTrinity MennoniteChurch to pray for himand the safety of hiswife and children.Those prayers havebeen answered, at leastin part.
Volunteers who worked on the House of Promiseproject take part in the blessing day in January.
This year’s Pasadena Palm Sunday PeaceParade, a 13-year tradition founded bymembers of Pasadena Mennonite
Church on the eve of the Iraq War, wasfocused on the theme of “Restoring the Earth,Redeeming the City.” Participants from a cross-section of Pasadena faith groups began at achurch in one of the city’s poorest neighbor-hoods, then walked to its economic heart in thePaseo Colorado, where they joined in singing,praying and witnessing publicly to their hopesfor a more just and sustainable city. Worshipdancers formed “living trees” along the paraderoute to symbolize the nature of trees in sustain-ing life and the symbol of Christ’s death on a“tree.” In partnership with theInterdenominational Ministerial Alliance, an association of African American pastors, andFirst AME Church, some participated in an additional walk to shed light on the recent spateof tragic police shootings of unarmed African Americans. A vigil was held at the site whereKendrec McDade, an unarmed black youth, was shot by the Pasadena police in 2012.
Giant puppets and ban-ners draw attention asthe walk proceedsthrough the city.
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The Peace & Justice Academy, founded by Pasadena MennoniteChurch members Kimberly Medendorp and Randy Christopher,announced with regret in April that it would be ceasing operations
after this school year. With a highly innovative program and schedule,low cost, and emphasis on education rooted in Anabaptist values –including Friday “Peace & Justice Labs” that took students everywherefrom Los Angeles’s skid row to learn more about homelessness to thefaraway source of the city’s drinking water to learn more about caringfor the earth’s limited resources –– PAJA offered a middle/high schooleducation like no other. It was a remarkable labor of love and faith thatwas richly supported by the Pasadena congregation, its board and a hostof excellent part-time teachers. Though deeply appreciated by enrolledfamilies, it was never able to achieve financial stability.
“When the Peace & Justice Academy was conceived back in 2008 itwas an experiment in hope,” the school’s board said in an April 14 state-ment. “Since opening our doors in September, 2009, the experiment hasbeen, in our estimation, an enormous success – a success in every wayexcept one. We have not been successful in enrolling students to theschool. Based on our projected enrollment of returning students and newstudents who have made a commitment, we will not have the revenuenecessary to further sustain the school. At this time the board of directorshas decided to cease operations for the school at the end of May, 2015.”
The school held its final graduation celebration on May 23.Alumnus Madeleine Cameron was among many who lamented the
school’s demise, writing on PAJA’s Facebook page: “I am sad becausethe Peace and Justice Academy was so much MORE than a high school.It was a community where love, trust, and joy THRIVED. It was a com-munity where I learned what it means to be a person of action in a worldwhere far too many are paralyzed by the illusion that they can't make adifference. It was a community where students from middle to highschool learned more about what it means to be an ally to those who areoppressed and persecuted than most adults learn in their entire lives.
“It was a community where students treated each other with respectand love, a community where it was ACTUALLY safe to be yourself, acommunity where you were accepted not for who you were in theworld, but for who you were in Christ. It was a community where mid-dle schoolers made connections and observations that seemed waybeyond their years, because that's what happens when you let themknow that that's what they are capable of. It was a community wherehigh schoolers encouraged one another to be examples of leadership andcompassion, and to dream big dreams of making a positive impact onthe world, because that's what happens when the people around them tellthem that ANYTHING is possible with God –– and prove it. It was acommunity that just plain turned the entire world upside-down, becauseyou know what? Sometimes upside-down by the world's standards isright-side up in God's kingdom. And boy, did we ever turn our worldupside-down. ...
“Some might say that the things were learned were extraordinary, butI don't think that they were. I just think that the world has lost sight ofwhat young people have the potential to do when they are nurtured withwisdom, fed with the bread of life, and encouraged with the knowledgethat they are far more than just another kid who needs to make it throughcollege.”
Thanking classmates and teachers for all they accomplished at a “lit-tle, humble school,” Cameron added that the flame they lit at PAJAwon’t be extinguished, because it “has caught fire in every student, par-ent and faculty member that has ever walked through the doors of thePeace and Justice Academy.”
The changes went quietly unnoticed at last summer’s PSMCAssembly. The Mennonite Men’s organization in the region virtual-
ly no longer exists. Started by the Pacific District Conference (GC) in the mid-’80s, and
changed to PSMC Men at the 1994 merger of GCs and MCs in thewestern states, the organization initially enjoyed great success. Men ofthe conference (and some women, too) collected money for new churchstartups and seminary scholarships. The men met for breakfast at thetwice a year assemblies to discuss business, progress, and opportunities.A house was purchased in Elkhart, Ind., to provide housing for studentsfrom the Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest who attended AMBS.
A number of churches in the district received as much as $50,000 forfrom Mennonite Men USA for startup money to either purchase or builda church. The money was designated for building costs rather than forpersonnel.
But over the years there was less and less participation. Scholarshipmoney remained available because the house in Elkhart was sold, andwas disbursed to students of the old Pacific District Conference in theform of housing subsidies. A handful of churches continued to sendmoney annually. Participating schools were broadened to include theMennonite Brethren seminary in Fresno, and Fuller Seminary inPasadena. Scholarships were also given to those fulfilling PSMCrequirements for credentialing. Women were also invited to apply forscholarships.
The organization struggled to find officers, with the result that ArlenGodshall (president), Sam Chupp (treasurer), and Al Whaley (scholar-ships) combined enjoyed a good number of years of service. In thespring of 2014 it was decided by the officers and the PSMC board ofdirectors to let the conference take over this function.
There is still a sizeable amount in the scholarship fund. It nowappears in the conference budget as a line item. Requests for scholarshipmoney should now be channeled through Clare Ann Ruth-Heffelbower,the new conference minister.
For further information on starting a men’s group, study material formen, of how to get involved with Mennonite Men USA & Canada, visitwww.mennonitemen.org. You can also like us on Facebook.–– Release by Al Whaley, Arlen Godshall and Sam Chupp
Peace & Justice Academy
Mennonite Men (PSMC)
PAJA founders and their students with the final set of yearbooks.
What’s the scoop?People and events
The 48th annual West Coast Mennonite Relief
Sale and Auction, held April 10-11, raised morethan $175,000 this year. Held on the grounds of
Fresno Pacific University, it featured the sale of more than500 quilts — including at least one auctioned off for$5,000. In addition, 17 food booths representing six cul-tures served the appetites of thousands of visitors.Traditionalists enjoyed 4,000 verenika (dumplings withmeat gravy) and 350 dozen zwieback (“twice baked”buns). Individuals, families and Mennonite Brethren andMennonite Church congregations, along with FPU stu-dent, faculty and staff volunteers, came together to put onthe sale, which benefits the relief, development and peace-making efforts of Mennonite Central Committee. Nextyear’s sale is set for April 1-2.
The Southern California Festival and Sale, May 15-16, generated more than $84,000, bringing the total raisedfor Mennonite Central Committee since the Upland sale’sinception to $1 million. The multicultural flavor ofSouthern California supporting churches was reflected inthe food offerings, which included Salvadoran tamales,carne asada and suya chicken in addition to barbecue anda make-your-own-omelette breakfast.
Nate Yoder began serving as West Coast MCC
executive director June 1, based in Reedley, Calif.Son of a Mennonite pastor, Yoder was born in Alabamaand raised in central Ohio. He has a master of divinitydegree from Asbury Theological Seminary and a doctor-ate of ministry with a focus on para-church executiveleadership at Denver Seminary. He served as a pastor for14 years at Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches.
West Coast MCC board chair Sunoko Lin, who pastorsPSMC congregation Maranatha Christian Fellowship,said this regional leadership role, working with a diversegroup of churches, uniquely prepared Yoder for the MCCposition. Yoder said he is excited about joining the leader-ship team and working to expand the good work of MCCin the region, in the U.S. and internationally.
Yoder will oversee a staff of 11 people relating toAnabaptist congregations in nine states and carrying outregional work especially focused on restorative justice,immigration services and education and border peacebuilding. West Coast MCC, one of four regional MCCoffices in the U.S., also operates the MCC (More than a
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Cup of Coffee) Café and the Mennonite Quilt Center,both in Reedley. – From a report by Krystal Klaassen
GAP (Global Anabaptist Peacebuilders) Summer
Institute will once again bring together studentsaged 18 to 26 from across the country this summer for aweek of on-site courses in California’s Central Valley,engaging in important questions from theological, eco-nomic and environmental perspectives. Field trips, activi-ties and hands-on experiences June 18-26 bring learningto life on topics such as Care for Creation, Migration andResettlement, Food Security and Restorative Justice.GAP is sponsored by Fresno Pacific University andMennonite Central Committee. For more information,visit gap.mcc.org.
Camp Keola isgearing up for
another wonderfulsummer, high inCalifornia’s SierraNevada, on the shoresof Huntington Lake. AVacation Camp isscheduled for July 9-11,Junior and Junior HighCamp July 12-18, andHigh School CampJuly 19-25. This year’stheme is Raise YourSail. In the same wayyou must raise the sail of a boat to experience the powerof the wind, Keola will be focusing on how we can “raiseour sails” to experience the power of connecting withChrist. Camp Keola is a bargain, and even more so forfirst-time campers, who get a $50 discount, and thosewho bring a friend for the first time, who get a $75 dis-count. Later in fall, there’s a family camp Sept. 4-7, and aQuilter’s Camp Oct. 7-11. Camp Keola is owned andoperated by the Pacific Southwest Mennonite RetreatMinistries, whose purpose is to develop, promote andfacilitate excellent, wholesome retreat programs in thePacific Southwest Mennonite Conference that help drawpeople closer to Jesus Christ and to each other. For moreinformation, visit www.campkeola.org/.
Hopi Mission School, an outgrowth of Mennonitemission on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, may
need to close for the coming year after a period of turmoil,reports First Mennonite Church of Phoenix pastor AlWhaley, who has served in recent years as PSMC’s repre-sentative to the school and chair of the Hopi MissionSchool Foundation board (the school’s fundraising arm).
In a recent e-Update to PSMC churches, Whaleyexplained some of the background to the school: Mission work on the Hopi Reservation dates back to1893. The Hopi are a peaceful people and allowedthe Mennonites to come in because of the Mennonites’position on peace. Still, over the years there was a lot ofturbulence and cultural clash. Hopi Mission School wasstarted in 1951 to help meet the need for a quality educa-tion for Hopi children. Though the government schoolwas free and HMS charged a small tuition, parents werewilling to pay because of the quality of education.
The beautiful handmadequilt that helped the SoCalsale tip the $1 million mark.
Every little bit helps whenit comes to MCC reliefsales. PasadenaMennonite Church kids,for example, gatheredcoins for six weeks aheadand contributed $389.19toward feeding Syrian andIraqi families. Right, theMy Coins Count booth atthe SoCal sale.
Nate Yoder
The original work was fully funded by the GeneralConference Mennonites as a foreign mission (Arizona didnot become a state until 1912). This changed inthe ’80s, when the school was weaned off subsidy andbecame independent. In the late ’90s, Gary Franz wasapproached to raise funds for the school through the HMSFoundation Board. The foundation raised money forschool improvements, teacher housing and a beautifulgymnasium that has been used for large tribal gatherings.
New problems started to arise several years ago witha new administrator. Mennonite VoluntaryService (MVS), which supplied the bulk of the teachers,was not paid the school’s portion of the teachers’salaries. Although MVS forgave a large portion of theschool’s indebtedness, the school refused to do furtherbusiness with MVS. Teachers’ salaries were arbitrarilyreduced by about 50%, even though money was given tothe school and designated for salaries. Large bills havebeen left unpaid for years at a time. The relationship withthe Foundation Board went sour and the Foundation wasasked not to raise funds any longer. The administrationhas refused to be accountable to anyone but its ownboard.
PSMC has never had a formal relationship with HMS,but interested people and churches have invested time,energy and money in the school. What happens next is upto MC USA, which has the original treaty signed by theHopi tribe and President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. Itis possible the school and the 40 acres on which it sits willsimply be given back to the Hopi tribe.
Fundraising efforts have been going pell mell in somePSMC congregations as teens work toward getting to
the Mennonite Church USA Youth Convention inKansas City in July.
Mennonite Community youth in Fresno invited con-gregants to participate in Cook For Cash. Good cookscould volunteer to produce a special dish for up to eightpeople; guests then paid $25 for the privilege of enjoyinga fine meal while supporting youth travel to the conven-tion. The youth also held a chili cook-off and a “bou-tique” and silent auction that included dinners, bakedgoods, vintage jewellery and even a sailboat cruise with aminimum bid of $350.
Youth at Koinonia Fellowship in Chandler, Ariz.,have been busy fundraising too, including a silent auc-tion/games night, recycling aluminum cans and a chilicook-off.
June 19-21Pacific Southwest
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AssemblyFresno, Calif.
Youth Gatheringat Camp Keola
June 30-July 5Mennonite Church
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July 9-11,Camp Keola Vacation
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July 21-26Mennonite World
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the position of associ-ate pastor at Trinity
Mennonite Church inNovember. He serves as aministry organizer, spiritualleader, service coordinatorand cultivator of a disciple-ship culture at the Glendale,Ariz., church.
Jeremy Kempf, right,music minister at Trinity,shared first place with twoother composers in theAnabaptist SongwritingChallenge this spring.Mountain States MennoniteConference sponsored thecompetition “to promote themusical arts among amongMennonite Church USAconstituents and to broadenthe musical spectrum ofMennonite congregational/communal music.”
The judges were looking for “new songs with lyricsthat espouse Anabaptist/Mennonite values (e.g. non-vio-lence, love for enemy, reconciliation, communal life, etc.),musically spanning from traditional forms to nontradition-al genres, styles and cultural expressions.”
Kempf’s “True Evangelical Faith” will be included in adigital songbook of the top 10 submissions. You can lis-ten to a clip at soundcloud.com/mennonite-church-usa/true-evangelical-faith
Trinity also has a lot to be proud of in Goshen, Ind.,where several of its young people have been students atGoshen College this year. Hayley Mann, a molecularbiology/biochemistry major from Scottsdale, was recog-nized on the spring semester dean’s list at Goshen Collegeand is participating in a study-service term in Peru thissummer. Also on the dean’s list was fellow Trinity atten-der Timothy Litwiller, a communications major fromPeoria, Ariz., one of 13 Goshen students to earn awards inthe Indiana Association of School Broadcasting’s collegebroadcasting competition. Nicholas Schwartz graduatedin April with a major in informatics, along with Evette
Yoder, a psychology major from Phoenix, and Erin
Kilmer, a nursing major from Glendale. Ali Zuercher, aHesston College freshman from Trinity, was named tothe Dean's List for the spring 2015 semester.
More student news: Aaron Graber, of Los Gatos,Calif., a biology major who attends First
Mennonite Church of San Francisco, is participating ina Goshen study-service term in Nicaraguara this summer.
Los Angeles Faith Chapel has a new home, after whatPastor Grace Pam describes as a “painful, emotionally
crushing” loss of the congregation’s building in a foreclo-sure last year. After meeting in a backyard for some time,the congregation has moved to a purpose-built churchbuilding a couple of miles away at 10216 S. Denker Ave.,on a rent-to-own basis. Pam says she is grateful to God“for His goodness and mercy,” and for giving her andother leaders of the congregation the strength to perseverein the face of ongoing challenges. The congregationwould appreciate prayer.
Youth work canget you intosticky situations.ShalomMennoniteSunday schoolteacher David gotduct-taped to awall by teens aspart of a goofyfund-raiser fortravel to the youth convention. Aposter behind himdepicts the longroad to KansasCity.
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MennoniteCommunity(Fresno) held itsannual post-Eastercelebration of “holyhumor” on April 12.Folks were invitedto wear “play cloth-ing” for a service ofjoy and laughter.(Young scripturereader Jason wore a clown wig!) Thealtar table wasladen with sportsgear, including acolorful sail. Right,the church enjoys ajoint Easter brunchwith sister churchHmong Community.Photos by DuaneRuth-Heffelbower.
Gallery: Snapshots from
Above, Maranatha Christian Fellowship in Northridge cele-brated Chinese New Year with a traditional red envelopegift to children. Left, Pasadena Mennonite marksPentecost under giant “flames” in the fellowship hall; lis-tens to speaker Bert Newton at the Palm Sunday PeaceParade; and fills a room with donations for the thrift store.
Upland Peace Church might just win the prize for most creative use of a church parking lotfor outreach and community building. In April, above left, an outdoor pageant told the storyof the crucifixion, and Easter Sunday, above, was made more joyous with an egg hunt. Afree health fair in May offered blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol screening,vision testing, BMI calculation, and even a “spiritual consultation.”
PSMC congregations
Right: Carol Rose and Tina Schlabach are officially installed as co-pastors at ShalomMennonite Fellowship in Tucson in May.
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‘One thing I’ve always beenamazed about is how Godsends the right person for
the right time, and I think that’s whatDick has been,” former moderator BrianFry said at the February assembly of thePacific Southwest conference, payingtribute to the outgoing conference minis-ter. “After PSMC had just gone througha very painful leadership change, DickDavis came on board in a real crisis situ-ation, and in this environment of tensionand mistrust, Dick brought a cheerfuland non-anxious process. He listenedvery thoughtfully without imposing hisown demands on the situation.
“With a long trail of broken relation-ships within the conference, he chal-lenged churches we were afraid wouldleave us to stay, and he invited many peo-ple who ove the years had kind of separated from relation-ship to the conference to engage (again). After a lot ofyears of roadblocks put up against Mennonite ChurchUSA, saying ‘stay out of our backyard,’ Dick sent a greenlight and said, ‘We’re not the same PSMC you’re used to.We’re now open for business.’ So for me, Dick’s time ofservice to PSMC has signified the start of a rebuilding, areconnecting and a reimagining of what PSMC is and canbecome.”
Davis retired officially at the end of 2014, but has con-tinued to work as a grassroots, pickup-driving volunteerwith the biggest project begun during this tenure of threeand a half years –– the creation of a thrift store as the firststep toward establishing a firm financial footing for anAnabaptist Resource Center in California.
“To walk with Dick has been a tremendous time ofunderstanding of each other,” current moderator FemiFatunmbi said of the many hours they have put in togeth-er, often crisscrossing the broad territory that is PSMC.He reflected on the big workload Davis willingly took on,and his nurturing of new mission efforts such as theReconciliAsian ministry founded by PSMC pastors Hyunand Sue Park Hur. Davis’s efforts, he noted, are buildingconnections well beyond California, Arizona and Nevada,to Korea and Nigeria, for example, and with the broader
Moderator Femi Fatunmbi and former conference ministers Al Whaley andStanley Friesen offered prayers for incoming conference minister ClareAnn Ruth-Heffelbower at the February assembly at Maranatha ChristianFellowship in Northridge, Calif.
“I’m excited about being here, being back in this wonderfully diverse con-ference,” she told delegates. “It’s not easy to be the church when we’respread out geographically, culturally and theologically, but I believe Godmakes a way for us. My sense of what we are called to do and be at thispoint is to be a model of what God's kingdom can look like. My prayer forus is that we can learn to bridge those differences, build those strong rela-tionships that will help us being a shining light of what God can do. And Iinvite your prayers for me and the conference as we move on from here.”
Hearty thanks, but not a goodbye for Dick Davis
denomination, including ensuring there was a representa-tive for the California-based African Belizean CaribbeanMennonite Mission Association on the nationalConstituency Leaders Council (Grace Pam).
“For nurturing pastors and ministering to us and beingthere to troubleshoot the numerous problems, yourpatience with our little crises and all the ways you pushedthe conference forward –– I want to say with all of ourhearts we are very grateful,” Fatunmbi said.
Davis publicly thanked wife Marla, his partner in min-istry for 38 years, and reflected on the ways his previousteaching, peace work and pastoring had prepared him forhis ministry with PSMC. He recalled being told by aninstructor in a yoga class –– a post-retirement pursuit ––to use a wall in one exercise to provide supportive resis-tance. “Challenges in life are like that wall; they strength-en us so we can do what God is calling us to do. We are inthat place today, within our conference and our church:What will we do with that resistance that we all feel fromvarious directions? Will we see it as something we wantto run away from, or as something that God is using tostrengthen us for who we will become as God’s people,as PSMC and Mennonite Church USA? We can’t bewho we desire to be without some form of resistancepushing us back. That’s not a bad thing. What’s bad iswhen we start cussing and griping at each other. What’sgood is if we can do what we are called to be as Christianpeople, and that is love each other.”
Brian Fry, Femi Fatunmbi and wife Marla look on as Dick Davis speaks.
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Immigration is one of those fraught issues in which thestories of real people often get lost in statistics, politicsand controversy. But when they find ways to share
their stories and resources, individuals and congregationscan make a real difference for at least of few of those whosuffer in the middle. Tina Schlabach, co-pastor of ShalomMennonite Fellowship in Tucson, illustrated that pointpowerfully at the February assembly of PSMC.
Schlabach is part of a local group called CasaMariposa that visits people living in immigration deten-tion. Immigration detention prisons are all over the U.S.,holding about 34,000 migrants at any given time in anattempt to ensure they appear before an immigrationjudge when their case comes up. People may be there fordays or months. Because they have no idea when theymight be released, detention takes a big toll, emotionallyand spiritually.
Volunteers in Tucson go to a local detention centerevery week, "to assure them they're not forgotten," saysSchlabach.
Two of the people she was visiting last summer, awoman from Honduras who had fled domestic violenceand a man from Mexico who had a wire and daughters inTucson, had been granted a bond, meaning if they couldraise a large sum –– $5,000 and $7,000 respectively –––they could be released to await their hearing.
“Maricella” (names have been changed), “in her quietway, said, 'I've got a bond. I don't know how I'm going topay it, but God will hep me somehow.' She never askedme for anything."
“Raul” sent a letter. “He zeroed in on me, that I wasgoing to help him out, that I was going to raise the $5000bond," Schlabach recalled. Despite her repeated state-ments that she had no way to do that, that even if shecould it wouldn't be fair to others in the same situation, hekept begging, sometimes calling several times a day.
At the time, there was a nationally publicized crisis as aflood of Central American children were arriving at theborder, fleeing violence and poverty. Schlabach wasamong the volunteers who spent time providing assis-tance at the local bus station, where immigration authori-ties were dumping women and children on their way toconnections elsewhere in the country. The Tucson churchwas getting calls from churches across the country askinghow they could help. One came from Evanston (Ill.)Mennonite church, which had the proceeds of a buildingsale and hoped to use some of that money to help migrantkids. Schlabach told Pastor Mitchell Brown that becausethe children were under the government's care, "we can'thelp these children” until they reached their final destina-tion somewhere in the U.S. However, she added: “there'sa couple of people I'm visiting in detention who have thisbond, and I know this is not what your congregationwanted to do ... but this is a need."
“The following week he called back and said: ‘Wedecided we want to do it. We want to bond them out."
"I got to do one of the most exciting things i've everdone, which was to go to the ICE office and become theguarantor of these bonds," Schlabach said. First Raul, thenpicking him up and driving him home to be reunited withhis family. When the second check came for Maricela’sbond, I waited for her clearance. She came out of two sets
of locked doors, with about 10 others released that day, carrying a plastic bag of the fewbelongings she arrived with. There was a lot of tears. The drive home, you wouldn'tbelieve.”
The bond money may be returned as the detainees meet their court commitmentsand their cases are settled over time. If so, it may go into a revolving fund to help otherdetainees with their bond fees –– a possibility Schlabach and the Evanston congregationare exploring, according to a release from Mennonite Church USA.
All this came about, Schlabach said, “Because one church said: That's something wecan do. When we tell our stories to each other that’s what happens –– we hear somethingthat resonates within us, and we share what we need, and sometimes someone at the tablesays, I think thats something we can do, and lives are changed.”
Hyun and Sue Park Hur, pastors at Mountain View Mennonite and founders of theReconciliAsian ministry in Southern California, are urging PSMC congregations to
be active encouragers of the fledgling Mennonite conference in South Korea. In the sum-mer of 2013, three Korean pastors who have become Anabaptists, two of them solelythrough reading, came to California to get some training. Two returned to Korea andplanted churches; the third became the leader of the new Korean Anabaptist circle, whichis in the process of forming a Korean Mennonite conference and building a church met-work.
“They feel isolated in this conviction, which is really different from what a lot of otherchurches believe, so they really need our support,” Sue told delegates at the FebruaryPSMC assembly in Northridge. “We kind of commissioned them and sent them, andthat’s about it. So if you would like to encourage them, please let us know. We wouldlove to help you encourage them with letters, words of affirmation, little videos that say,‘Yay! We’re praying for you!’ Those would be tremendous for them. Financially they’revery strapped and socially they feel isolated from other Christian pastors. So please prayfor them.”
For moreinformation onhow you cansupport theKorean pastorsor to learn moreabout the ongo-ing work ofReconciliAsianvisit reconciliasian.com, or [email protected]
Mission beyond our borders: two stories
Maricela, left, and Raul, right (with his reunited family) were helped through acollaboration with an Illinois church.
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Immigration – Theword is tossedaround and debated
in our media, govern-ment, classrooms,and churches. Whatare the basic facts about U.S. immigration? Who are thepeople involved? What does the Bible have to say to usas Christians about immigration? What role might we fillas Anabaptists within this age-old challenge? Thesequestions and more are unpacked in the Bible study,Radical Hospitality: responding to the issue of immigra-tion. This free resource is specifically designed to be flex-ible and accessible –– all materials are available belowfor download and the curriculum can be customized tomeet your group's needs. The core curriculum is basedon 5 videos (each 15-20 minutes) with the accompanyingResource Guide. This resource is ideal for adult SundaySchool classes, small fellowship groups, weekend adultBible Schools, and congregational in- services. To learnmore, visit mennoniteusa.org/what-we-do/immigration/radical-hospitality-discussion-guide/
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