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<\/a>Mike Clymer learned of CTP while he and his wife Melody were doing voluntary service with Mennonite Central Committee in southeastern Africa. \u201cI found it a great way to help me process and reflect on my experiences in Swaziland and to explore what I wanted to do next.\u201d<\/p>\nToward the end of his master\u2019s studies, Melody gave birth to their first child, Silas, causing the couple to consider where they wanted to settle and raise children. They ended up joining several friends in Meridian, Mississippi, not far from where they had lived for four years early in their marriage. \u201cIt was an opportunity for us to live and serve in a diverse community, with like-minded believers at similar stages in life, in a culture to which we felt called to return,\u201d said Mike.<\/p>\n
Mike is a math teacher in the local public high school. He is a lay leader in the Mennonite church in Meridian and has done interfaith community organizing in the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur time here has been filled with many of the joys and challenges that come with living on the cultural \u2018edge\u2019 \u2013 close to issues of race, poverty, education, and political-social-religious conflict.\u201d Mike notes that peace-justice voices tend to be \u201cmarginalized and isolated\u201d in Mississippi. Nevertheless, he said he \u201ctries to view my work, my church, and my community through peace-justice lenses, and I try to share that perspective as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n
He says he uses the lessons he learned at CTP \u201cevery day in my roles at the urban high school where I teach math, in my family, and at my church.\u201d The Clymers now have three children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Mike Clymer learned of CTP while he and his wife Melody were doing voluntary service with Mennonite Central Committee in southeastern Africa. \u201cI found it a great way to help me process and reflect on my experiences in Swaziland and to explore what I wanted to do next.\u201d<\/p>\n