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Who are the Mennonites? (new video) 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,
Worship: Sunday mornings we meet for Children's and Sunday School and Adult Bible Study at 10:00 a.m. and enjoy light refreshments at 10:45 a.m. We gather for worship at 11:00 a.m. Many Sundays we share a fellowship meal after the worship service. Visitors are warmly welcomed. Our men's prayer group meets on Tuesdays from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Our women’s prayer group meets on 2nd and 4th Mondays from 6:30 to 8::30 p.m. Our Meeting House: The Mennonite Meeting House is home to our congregation, Emmanuel Mennonite Church, and the Beltram Peace Center. We are conveniently located at 1236 NW 18th Avenue, Gainesville, with parking available in our lot and at the RBC and Wells Fargo bank lots. |
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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 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 a month we prepare and distribute sandwiches to the homeless at the Downtown Plaza. Each quarter we cook and serve a home-made ham supper at St. Francis House. We support Alachua Habitat for Humanity, Arbor House, Gainesville Community Ministry, and Home Van. Several of our members are involved in ministry to prisoners. We host peacemaking initiatives through the Beltram Peace Center, and provide leadership for
OUR PASTOR Eve 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 h In 1968 she married Richard MacMaster, graduated from George Washington University with a master’s degree in the history of modern Europe, Russia, and the Near East. That same year she 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 a magazine editor, newspaper 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 three adult childen and grandparents of four boys and one girl. Eve is a member of the National Council (governing board) of the Fellowship of Reconciliation USA. |
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A sermon by our pastor in our denominational magazine An article by our pastor about interfaith solidarity in Gainesville Books by our pastor: Books by Richard MacMaster, our pastor’s husband |
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