Undecided about which seminary to attend, Loren Swartzendruber went to friends for advice.
He went to Edward Stoltzfus, who was pastor of First Mennonite Church in Iowa City, Iowa, at the time. And Swartzendruber went to his father-in-law, also a pastor.
"Those two conversations," Swartzendruber told about 1,000 people Saturday at Eastern Mennonite University, "pointed me in a direction that shaped my life in ways that they nor I could have imagined."
Swartzendruber, an EMU alum, went on to graduate from the campus seminary.
This weekend, representatives of the university