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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,
Sunday worship: We meet for worship at 10:00 a.m., enjoy light refreshments at 11:15, and gather for Children’s Sunday School and Adult “Faith and Issues” Forum at 11:30. Childcare is provided. Parking is available in our lot, and in the bank parking lots on Sunday mornings and other times when the banks are closed. |
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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 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 sponsor, host, and lead community peacemaking initiatives through the Beltram Peace Center, a vital part of our witness and service.
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 Leadership Board of Southeast Mennonite Conference and serves on the Steering Committee of United Voices for Peace and the Historic Peace Churches Consultation. |
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A sermon by our pastor in our denominational magazine Books by our pastor: Books by Richard MacMaster, our pastor’s husband |
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