With help from rallying donors across all 50 states and an impromptu head-shaving challenge, EMU’s fourth annual LovEMU Giving Day on April 8 raised a record $214,683 from 732 gifts. ... read more about LovEMU Day 2020 sets new records!
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Seminary’s first online gathering for pastors helps to foster connection and innovation among pandemic challenges
As the social restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic caused increasing challenges to those in the ministry, Eastern Mennonite Seminary instructor Sarah Bixler began to sense a need for connection among ... read more about Seminary’s first online gathering for pastors helps to foster connection and innovation among pandemic challenges
EMU’s tutors find fresh purpose in helping fellow students through online shift
Looking back over the last few weeks, Professor Linda Gnagey thinks about one meeting as particularly fortuitous. As director of Eastern Mennonite University’s Academic Success Center, Gnagey recruits, trains and ... read more about EMU’s tutors find fresh purpose in helping fellow students through online shift
NYT: Holmes County Amish, with former VP Jim Smucker, mobilize ‘Operation Stop Covid-19’
Here's a New York Times article on how lumber and goods company Keim in Sugarcreek, Ohio, has helped to mobilize Holmes County Amish in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. A quote from Jim Smucker, past EMU administrator and now president of Keim, wraps up the story: “We’re a very individualistic society and the Amish have a lot to teach us about community...I think the shift has got to go from ‘I,’ to ‘we.’” ... read more about NYT: Holmes County Amish, with former VP Jim Smucker, mobilize ‘Operation Stop Covid-19’ from New York Times
In Memoriam: Nate Yoder, professor emeritus of church history and university archivist, helped many ‘put feet on their prayers’
Here my goal is to assist students in naming the way God is calling them to help shape the history they are living. To name such a calling is to ... read more about In Memoriam: Nate Yoder, professor emeritus of church history and university archivist, helped many ‘put feet on their prayers’
Mennonite communities contribute masks with help from Phil Helmuth ’76 and Mennonite Disaster Service
Phil Helmuth ’76, volunteer development coordinator with Mennonite Disaster Services, helped to coordinate production of homemade masks for first responders in Harrisonburg. The masks were donated to the Harrisonburg Fire ... read more about Mennonite communities contribute masks with help from Phil Helmuth ’76 and Mennonite Disaster Service
LovEMU Day on 4/8/2020 brings us together
WEDNESDAY 4/8 is LovEMU Day! Spread your love for EMU, give a gift, and encourage others! On April 8, we invite you to “Show Up Together” online for EMU and our students on LovEMU Giving Day ... read more about LovEMU Day on 4/8/2020 brings us together
Kiara Kiah takes third, on to national singing competition
Eastern Mennonite University soprano Kiara Kiah recently placed third in her division at the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Region National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) audition – she now advances on ... read more about Kiara Kiah takes third, on to national singing competition
EMU team’s fuel-efficient vehicle will be ready for next year’s rescheduled Shell Eco-marathon
Tucked away in a garage on Eastern Mennonite University’s campus sits a metal frame made of chrome moly tubing, an extruded steel alloy. Various tools, plywood, and parts of a ... read more about EMU team’s fuel-efficient vehicle will be ready for next year’s rescheduled Shell Eco-marathon
Herm ready to ‘pass the torch’ of Royal Pride to next blue lion mascot
Eastern Mennonite University has announced the retirement of Herm, the school’s mascot, effective at the end of the 2019-20 academic year. Known less by his official moniker of Herm the ... read more about Herm ready to ‘pass the torch’ of Royal Pride to next blue lion mascot