​Melissa Jantzi '16 at Christ House in Washington D.C., where she now works as a registered nurse at the residential clinic for men experiencing homelessness. It is the former site of one of her service opportunities. (Photo provided.)

Mennonite service programs helped this nurse alumna find her calling

Melissa Jantzi ’16, a nurse at Christ House in Washington D.C., was profiled this month by Mennonite Mission Network. She participated in two programs that helped to define her current work: Service Adventure after graduation from Eastern Mennonite High School and Serving and Learning Together (SALT), a Mennonite Central Committee program, after earning her degree at EMU. She volunteered at a nursing school in Zambia for a year.

Jantzi now works at the 32-bed, in-patient residence. She had previously volunteered there for a year after graduating.

Christ House frequently hosts student-interns, many of them nursing or social work majors, who are participating in EMU’s Washington Community Scholars’ Center program.

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Discussion on “Mennonite service programs helped this nurse alumna find her calling

  1. I apologize for being so late with my comment……so happy to see and EMU nsg alumn
    working in DC….also a fellow H’burg woman:) We even live in Belmont but never connected a great deal…..PLUS your dad is a fellow NY’er. Keep the faith and thank you for your good work.

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