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Students discern leadership gifts in summer-long Ministry Inquiry Program

April 29, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Answering a call, following a hunch, listening to your heart – four Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) students, each with a different way of expressing what they are heeding in their

Sunday school materials connect veterans, peace churches

December 22, 2014Last updated January 12, 2015 by Tim Huber

Developers of a new Sunday school curriculum say it goes down a seldom-walked path — where pacifists accompany veterans toward peace. Released on Veterans’ Day, Nov. 11, the free six-week

Four students explore various forms of ministry in summer program

September 3, 2014Last updated November 10, 2016 by Steve Shenk

When 20-year-old Hanna Heishman arrived at her assigned church this summer in Philadelphia, she wondered if she would have anything to offer the congregation. “I was definitely intimidated,” she said.

Students Earn Credits Off Campus, Learning in New Ways and New Places

May 15, 2013Last updated September 18, 2014 by Steve Shenk

Bekah Enns’ great-grandparents would not recognize the way she is pursuing an academic degree in 2013. For one thing, the senior history major at Eastern Mennonite University spent last semester

Students Test Their Gifts in Ministry Inquiry Program

May 1, 2012Last updated May 17, 2012 by Mike Zucconi

A group of Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) students will begin summer internships with congregations throughout the U.S. as part of Mennonite Church USA‘s Ministry Inquiry Program (MIP). Funded in part

Bible Students Explore Emerging Church, Set Future Foundation

March 30, 2012Last updated September 17, 2014 by Mike Zucconi

Bible students are different now than they were in the 1990s when Peter Dula was a student at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Students now, says Dula, Bible and religion department

Endowed Scholarship to Honor Nursing Alum Matt Garber

March 26, 2009Last updated September 19, 2014 by Jim Bishop

Matt Garber, a well-loved student leader, musician, and 2008 nursing graduate, was known for his strong faith and good sense of humor. EMU hopes the new Matthew Garber Endowed Scholarship

Changing expectations: Invoking God after a hard summer

December 1, 2007 by Marcy Gineris

John Tyson is 2009 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University and also a graduate of Christopher Dock Mennonite High School. This reflection on his time exploring pastoral ministry in EMU’s Ministry

Students Exploring Ministry Interests

May 30, 2007 by admin

Emily Derstine, a JPCS major at EMU, with her supervisor, Kirk Hanger, an EMU alumnus, at Nueva Esperanza/New Hope Fellowship in suburban Washington, D.C. A record-setting 10 students have begun

Young Adults Wrestle with Visions for the Church

April 11, 2007 by Lora Steiner