A hospital administrator and community leader will be the new president and chief executive officer of Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community in Harrisonburg, Va., starting in April. Judith (Reitz) Trumbo ’82 succeeds Ron Yoder ’68, who is retiring. VMRC, neighboring Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) on the northeast, has a $20 million annual budg ...More
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Preaching from a pulpit on Sundays is not the aspiration of seminary students Eugene and Christina Kraybill. Eugene, in fact, is often in the sky Sunday mornings, piloting his United Airlines CRJ-700 from Dulles International Airport – a job he enjoys and plans to continue indefinitely. Ministry, for him, is “not ‘a calling’; it’s life.” “We really feel called to be ...More
Bible students are different now than they were in the 1990s when Peter Dula was a student at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Students now, says Dula, Bible and religion department chair, want to “experiment” with what it means to be church and “dig deep into the meaning of Anabaptism, ...More
Jonathan Spicher (l.) and Lars Akerson moments before beginning their arduous journey from Harrisonburg, Va., to Asuncion, Paraguay, that will take six months and cover 8,500 miles. Photo by Lindsey Roeschley Lars Akerson and Jonathan Spicher are ...More
James O. Lehman, librarian emeritus at EMU and archivist for Virginia Mennonite Conference Two experts in Anabaptist studies have collaborated on the first scholarly examination of pacifism during the Civil War. “Mennonites, Amish and the American Civil War,& ...More
Emily Derstine, a JPCS major at EMU, with her supervisor, Kirk Hanger, an EMU alumnus, at Nueva Esperanza/New Hope Fellowship in suburban Washington, D.C. A record-setting 10 students ha ...More
Dr. Daniel B. Suter 1920-2006 Daniel B. Suter, professor emeritus of biology and developer of the pre-medical program at East ...More
Roy D. Roth Former Eastern Mennonite University faculty member Roy D. Roth, of Eugene, Ore., died Dec. 15, 2005 at age 84. In 1972, after receiving a master of church music degree from the University of Oregon, Roth joined the music dep ...More
Linden M. WengerPhoto by Jim Bishop Linden M. Wenger, 92, a veteran pastor/bishop and professor emeritus of philosophy at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, died Sunday, Dec. 18, at Oak Lea Nu ...More
Sharon E. Kniss Sharon E. Kniss of Harrisonburg takes seriously the mission statement of Eastern Mennonite University: "to experience Christ and follow His call to witness faithfully, serve compassionately and walk boldly in the way of nonviolence an ...More
