Welcome To

Emmanuel Mennonite Church

Regular Sunday Services at 11 AM
About Us

Our Church

Emmanuel Mennonite Church is an inclusive faith community that seeks to know and experience God through Jesus Christ and one another. Emmanuel is a name for Jesus, derived from a Hebrew word meaning God with us. We experience God with us as we gather for worship and fellowship, and practice our faith by promoting justice, peace, and creation care. 

Our denomination, Mennonite Church USA is one among many Mennonite groups.

Here are some links to Mennonite organizations:

 

The Beltram Peace Center

Local Engagement

Our local engagement also includes serving meals at St. Francis House homeless shelter, collecting food for Bread of the Mighty food pantry, providing meeting space for local groups who share our concerns for justice, peace, and creation care. We invite our friends and neighbors to meet with us as we study the Bible, discuss faith and issues, and host discussion groups that engage with topics like dismantling racism, interfaith engagement, and working for justice, peace, and creation care.

We work for peace, justice, and creation care through the Beltram Peace Center, named for Fred Beltram, whose legacy funded the purchase of our meeting house and underwrites the cost of providing speakers and materials for events and programs.

Leadership

Church Council is responsible for administration and finances.
Elders are concerned with the spiritual needs of the congregation.

Our pastor is Reverend Dr. César Moya

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César Moya is an Ordained Pastor of the Mennonite Church of Colombia and recognized by the Mennonite Church in the United States. He was a pastor in various churches, Executive Secretary and President of the Church Mennonite from Colombia. He has a PhD in Theology from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam of Netherlands; professor of Bible and Theology at different universities and seminaries in Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica and the United States. He served as a Mennonite Mission Network worker for several years in Ecuador where, along with his wife Patricia, planting several churches and initiating peace and refugee care projects.

César has experience in peacebuilding and transculturality, as well as with migrant, peasant and indigenous populations. He is a researcher and writer of several books and articles oriented towards the ethics of reconciliation and peace, and Anabaptism and directs the journal of the Latin American Network of Anabaptist Studies RELEA.

We gather for worship at the Mennonite Meeting House, 1236 NW 18th Avenue, every Sunday at 11:00 a.m. Services include singing with instrumental accompaniment, a time for children, a sermon, intercessory prayer, a monthly communion service. We offer a remote Zoom option.

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1236 NW 18th Ave, Gainesville, FL 32609
Regular Sunday Services at 11 AM *Parking Available*