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Click here for more photos from the inauguration<\/a><\/div>\n

Undecided about which seminary to attend, Loren Swartzendruber went to friends for advice. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

"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." <\/p>\n

Swartzendruber, an EMU alum, went on to graduate from the campus seminary. <\/p>\n

This weekend, representatives of the university<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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