In this chapel gathering in the Seminary connected with  the University’s  Spiritual Life Week, Pastor Leonard Dow references the 1964 song by the Righteous Brothers, “You’ve lost that loving feeling” as he speaks from the heart, reflecting  on Revelations 2:1-7.

Each semester, campus ministries hosts Spiritual Life Week, an engaging series of events aimed at deepening faith in Jesus Christ. The February 2011 events are themed “Called by God.”

Leonard Dow, an ’87 alum of EMU, serves as pastor of Oxford Circle Mennonite Church, an urban, multi-ethnic community in Philadelphia, PA. He serves as bishop of the Lancaster Conference Philadelphia District, vice chair of the Mennonite Central Committee U. S. Board, board chair of the Oxford Circle Christian Community Development Association and board member of Singing City, a non-profit music industry. Prior to being called into ministry, he was in banking for 10-12 years. Dow seeks to combine his business expertise along with his ethical and Christian values to ministry.

 February 17, 2011 SLW2 [28:56] Play Now | Play in Popup

Are you wrestling with who you are?  In this opening chapel of Spiritual Life Week, Pastor Leonard Dow speaks on this theme inspired from the biblical story of Jacob.

Each semester, campus ministries hosts Spiritual Life Week, an engaging series of events aimed at deepening faith in Jesus Christ. The February 2011 events are themed “Called by God.”

Leonard Dow, an ’87 alum of EMU, serves as pastor of Oxford Circle Mennonite Church, an urban, multi-ethnic community in Philadelphia, PA. He serves as bishop of the Lancaster Conference Philadelphia District, vice chair of the Mennonite Central Committee U. S. Board, board chair of the Oxford Circle Christian Community Development Association and board member of Singing City, a non-profit music industry. Prior to being called into ministry, he was in banking for 10-12 years. Dow seeks to combine his business expertise along with his ethical and Christian values to ministry.

 February 16, 2011 Spiritual Life Week Chapel 1 [26:28] Play Now | Play in Popup

Mark Adams speaks in the final Chapel of  EMU’s  2010 Fall semester Spiritual Life Week.  Adams is a Presbyterian Church (USA) mission co-worker with Frontera de Cristo, a Presbyterian Border Ministry centered in Agua Prieta, Mexico and Douglas, AZ, where he has served since 1998. As U.S. coordinator of the bi-national ministry, Mark is responsible, in partnership with the Angel Valencia of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico, for the coordination of the six ministry areas of Frontera de Cristo: church development, health, family counseling, the New Hope Community Center, mission education, and the Just Trade Center.  He is co-author of the book, Just Coffee: Caffeine with a Conscience which explores the connections between coffee, migration and faith.

Through Frontera de Cristo, Mark brings together people from both sides of the border, building relationships and understanding between them. “I help them reflect biblically and theologically about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ,” writes Mark, “in light of our spiritual, social, political, and economic connected-ness.”

Mark was ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacrament on August 23, 1998, in his home church, Clover Presbyterian Church. He is a minister member of Presbytery de Cristo, PC(USA), and is a fraternal member of the Presbytery of Chihuahua (National Presbyterian Church of Mexico).

Mark is married to Miriam Maldonado Escobar and they have three children: Cindy, Anna Flor and Nathan.

 October 29, 2010 Spiritual Life Week [20:08] Play Now | Play in Popup

Mark Adams speaks in the Chapel Gathering in the Seminary during EMU’s  Spiritual Life Week.  Adams is a Presbyterian Church (USA) mission co-worker with Frontera de Cristo, a Presbyterian Border Ministry centered in Agua Prieta, Mexico and Douglas, AZ, where he has served since 1998. As U.S. coordinator of the bi-national ministry, Mark is responsible, in partnership with the Angel Valencia of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico, for the coordination of the six ministry areas of Frontera de Cristo: church development, health, family counseling, the New Hope Community Center, mission education, and the Just Trade Center.  He is co-author of the book, Just Coffee: Caffeine with a Conscience which explores the connections between coffee, migration and faith.

Through Frontera de Cristo, Mark brings together people from both sides of the border, building relationships and understanding between them. “I help them reflect biblically and theologically about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ,” writes Mark, “in light of our spiritual, social, political, and economic connected-ness.”

Mark was ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacrament on August 23, 1998, in his home church, Clover Presbyterian Church. He is a minister member of Presbytery de Cristo, PC(USA), and is a fraternal member of the Presbytery of Chihuahua (National Presbyterian Church of Mexico).

Mark is married to Miriam Maldonado Escobar and they have three children: Cindy, Anna Flor and Nathan.

 October 28, 2010 Spiritual Life Week [22:54] Play Now | Play in Popup

Willi Hugo Perez wraps up  Eastern Mennonite Seminary’s Spiritual Life Week with this third of three chapel addresses.  Perez,  a 2004 graduate of EMS, is the current rector (president) of SEMILLA, the Latin American Anabaptist Seminary in Guatemala.  In this chapel, he speaks in Spanish and is translated by Marvin Lorenzana, Director of Multicultural Services.

 September 30, 2010 Seminary SLW Chapel 3 [48:01] Play Now | Play in Popup

Willi Hugo Perez continues  Eastern Mennonite Seminary’s Spiritual Life Week with this second of three chapel addresses.  Perez,  a 2004 graduate of EMS, is the current rector (president) of SEMILLA, the Latin American Anabaptist Seminary in Guatemala.

 September 29, 2010 [43:39] Play Now | Play in Popup

Willi Hugo Perez kicks off Eastern Mennonite Seminary’s Spiritual Life Week with this first of three chapel addresses.  Perez,  a 2004 graduate of EMS, is the current rector (president) of SEMILLA, the Latin American Anabaptist Seminary in Guatemala.

 September 28, 2010--Seminary Spiritual Life Week #1 [45:34] Play Now | Play in Popup