Seminary Spiritual Life Week speaker Mag Richer Smith grew up in Wauseon, Ohio. She is a graduate of Goshen College and Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary. Mag has just completed 30 years of pastoral ministry, having served congregations in Normal, Indianapolis, Lombard, IL and Iowa City. For 27 years she has co-pastored with her husband, Bob....
Fall Semester Opening Convocation
President Loren Swartzendruber addresses the campus community with the message, “Prepare to Serve and Lead,” followed by a sending blessing for the South Africa Cross Cultural group.
Seminary Convocation–Dr. Ervin Stutzman
Dr. Ervin Stutzman, Dean of the Seminary at EMU, welcomes students to EMS with his convocation address titled, “Preparing to Serve and Lead in a Global context.”
2009 Commencement
EMU celebrates the University’s 91st Annual Commencement. Joyce Bontrager Lehman of the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation offers the Commencement address, Opportunities are for Taking. Bontrager Lehman began her career in international economic development with Mennonite Economic Development Associates. From 2003-2007, she spent most of her time in Afghanistan working with the World bank, USAID....
2009 Baccalaureate
EMU celebrates the University’s 91st Annual Commencement in this Baccalaureate Service. Dr. Lori Leaman, associate professor of education, addresses the community with her speech, “Knowing Whom, not What.”
2009 Seminary Commencement
Eastern Mennonite Seminary celebrates the Sixtieth Annual Commencement with an address by Willard M. Swartley, and Senior Class Salutation by John Michael Metzler. Swartley, Professor emeritus of New Testament at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, draws from John 15: 1-5, 8:-11, 16-17, and Galatians 5:22-23 for his Commencement Address.
2009 Nurses’ Pinning
The Spring semester nursing graduates celebrate the completion of their Nursing degrees in this traditional pinning ceremony. A few of the graduating Nurses share reflections of the past four years, and each graduate choses someone to pin them as nursing professor Laura Glick Yoder shares the graduate’s plans for the next phase in their life.
Cross-cultural Chapel: India
The returning Spring 2009 India Cross-cultural group shares reflections and adventures from their experiences abroad.
Cross-cultural Chapel: Guatemala
The returning Spring 2009 Guatemala Cross-cultural group shares reflections and adventures from their experiences in Central America.
Brian McLaren in Seminary Chapel
Brian McLaren Speaks for the Augsburger Lecture Series in Seminary Chapel