We have moved to the Meeting House, located at 1236 NW 18th Avenue. We are busy furnishing our new building and preparing for an Open House, date TBA.  The building will be home to both Emmanuel Mennonite Church and the Beltram Peace Center.

Check the weekly bulletins for updates. Please join us in praying for the guidance of the Holy Spirit as we make the many decisions required during this time of transition.

Emmanuel Mennonite Church is a member of the Southeast Conference of the Mennonite Church USA.  We are a Christian fellowship in the Anabaptist tradition of radical discipleship, established in Gainesville on Pentecost Sunday 1983. The heart of our congregational life is following Jesus Christ, caring for one another, and serving our community.

“Emmanuel” is a name for Jesus Christ, from the Hebrew word meaning “God with us.” 

“Anabaptist” refers to our roots in the Anabaptist movement that began in Europe in the 16th century when a small group of believers challenged the emerging Protestant movement to follow the teachings of Jesus, practice believer’s baptism and refuse military service. 

Vision statement of the Mennonite Church:  Healing and Hope 

God calls us to be followers of Jesus Christ,
and by the power of the Holy Spirit,
to grow as communities of grace, joy, and peace,
so that God's healing and hope
flow through us to the world.

Worship: We gather each Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Meeting House, 1236 NW 18th Avenue, Gainesville, to praise God, hear the proclamation of the good news of Jesus Christ, and share joys and concerns.  People of all ages share their gifts and actively participate in our common life.

Childcare is provided.  Parking is available in our parking lot next to the Meeting House as well at the RBC Bank.

Daily devotions

Community:We are a small, friendly, and diverse fellowship of people from a variety of faith backgrounds, gathered by the Holy Spirit to be a community of worship, witness, and peacemaking. Our community has acted as extended family to the students who have sojourned among us.  

Mission: We express our love for God and our neighbors by sharing the gospel in words and deeds of peacemaking, justice, and creation care.  We reach out to students through the Campus Ministry Co-operative and the Mennonite Student Group at the University of Florida. 

We participate in the annual Gainesville CROP Walk in November and the community march for justice and equality on Martin Luther King Day.  We are a partner of the Anti-Racism Coalition of Gainesville and a supporting congregation of the Interfaith Hospitality Network.

Once each quarter we prepare and serve a home-cooked supper at St. Francis House  for the homeless.  We support the local ministries of Alachua Habitat for Humanity, Arbor House, Gainesville Community Ministry, and Home Van.  Several of our members are involved in ministry to prisoners.

We provide leadership for the Gainesville Interfaith Peace Center, participate in United Voices for Peace, and host Peace Potlucks and Brown Bag Lunches to introduce the community to local and visiting speakers on issues of justice and peace.

EMMANUEL IN THE NEWS
Our members in the news
 
  Ginny Campbell co-ordinates organic garden

OUR PASTOR

Eve Bowers MacMaster has been Pastor of EmmanuelMennonite Churchsince February, 2001, following Heidi Regier Kreider (1991-200) and Phil Kniss (1983-1990).

Eve grew up in Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, and immediately after graduating fromPenn State she went to Turkey as a Peace Corps Volunteer. The experience of living and working in the Moslem Middle East gave her a life-long love for the people of the region

In 1968 she married Richard MacMaster, graduated from George Washington University, and committed her life to her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  The public events of that historic year, simultaneous with her religious conversion, produced Eve’s Christ-centered passion for peace and justice.

She began work toward an M.Div. at Eastern Mennonite Seminary in 1976 and completed the degree in 1999 at Lancaster Theological Seminary.  Along the way, she worked as an editor, reporter, and writer of books, articles, curriculum, poems, inspiration, humor, and fiction.  She continues to write for publication and dreams of completing her work-in-progress, “Bible Stories for Grown-ups.”

Eve and Richard are parents of Sam MacMaster, Tom MacMaster, and Sarah Blount.  Their grandchildren are Ian, Spencer, and Cameron MacMaster and Patrick MacMaster Blount.

She is a member of the Leadership Board of Southeast Mennonite Conference and serves on the Steering Committee of Gainesville Interfaith Peace Center and United Voices for Peace.

A sermon by our pastor in our denominational magazine

Books by our pastor:

Books by Richard MacMaster, our pastor’s husband

Our pastor in the news

A video from the Gainesville Sun

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