I LOVE COACHING INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES TO DISCOVER THEIR UNIQUE GIFTS AND CALLINGS.
Joe Hackman MDiv ’11
Harleysville, Pennsylvania, lead pastor at Salford Mennonite Church
Advice from an EMU/EMS professor: Marcus Smucker taught that congregations are made up of people who possess premodern, modern and postmodern understandings of faith. In pastoral care-giving relationships, the role of the minister is to join individuals in speaking their particular faith language to help them make sense of God’s movement in their lives.
I GET PAID TO SPEND TIME WITH GOD AND PEOPLE – UNBELIEVABLE!
Sandy Drescher-Lehman ’79
Green Lane, Pennsylvania, pastor at Methacton Mennonite Church
Advice from an EMU/EMS professor: Speak/ act for those who don’t have a “voice.”
God at work: Every Sunday when our church gathers, with many different experiences and opinions and theologies, we sing and share our love for God and each other.
Fun EMU memory: I have so many! Hanging out with hall mates in Northlawn and with our “brother” hall in Ivy Hall, one of whom I fell in love with six years later and have been married to for 37 years!
THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING “ALLOWED” INTO THE SACRED SPACE OF THOSE LATER DAYS IN A PERSON’S EARTHLY JOURNEY IS SOMETHING I NEVER TAKE FOR GRANTED.
Steve C. Nyce MA ’91
(Christian ministries), Souderton, Pennsylvania, hospice chaplain for Caring Hospice Services
God at work: During a recent visit with a newer patient, she shared the pain of losing two adult children in recent years from difficult illnesses. She noted her anger toward God. As she processed her feelings and as I was privileged to sit and listen, she simply felt validated. Over some weeks, she came to a place of peace and a few days later passed from this life to the next.
Alumni in Philadelphia and the surrounding region:
- Hubert Schwartendruber’59
- Andrew Leatherman ’62
- Donella Clemens ’62
- Richard Lichty ’62
- S. Luke Beidler ’66
- Ray Yoder ’66
- John Ehst ’68
- Noah Kolb ’68
- Freeman Miller ’68
- Mark Derstine ’72
- Janet Foderaro ’72
- Kathryn Wenger ’72
- Anna Detweiler ’73
- David Gehman ’73
- Galen Horst-Martz ’75
- Michael King ’76
- Sandra Drescher-Lehman ’79
- Mark Wenger ’79
- Kathy Yoder ’79
- Sandra Landes ’80
- Wayne Speigle ’80
- Michael Bishop ’81
- Regan Savage ’81
- Michael Clemmer ’83
- Sonya Stauffer Kurtz ’85
- Michael Derstine ’86, MDiv ’89
- Margret Castillo ’90
- Steven Nyce ’90, MAL ’91
- Kenneth Burkholder ’91, MDiv ’05
- Steve Kriss ’94
- Cheryl Martin ’94
- Randall Nyce ’94
- Burt Parks MDiv ’95
- Marc Hershberger ’95
- Hsiao-wen Chen MA ’96 (counseling)
- Benjamin Stutzman MAL ’97
- Kris Swartley ’98
- Lorene Derstine ’99
- Lorie Hershey MDiv ’05
- Timothy Moyer Certificate of Ministry Studies ’06
- Joseph Hackman MDiv ’11
- Beny Krisbianto MDiv ’15
*according to EMU records as of 4/2019
