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	Annual Sessions 2009 \| Clinton Frame Mennonite
Highlights from Saturday, June 20 Sending. Participants were sent forth with an anointing of gladness and strength as they returned to their communities. Here, Deron Brill Bergstresser (a member of the planning committee and co-pastor of Faith Mennonite, Goshen, Ind.) and Brenda Meyer (co-pastor of Benton Mennonite, Goshen) anoint Russell Jensen and Steve Thomas. John Troyer, a member of the Missional Leadership Team and youth pastor at Clinton Frame Mennonite, speaks during the Saturday morning worship session. “God’s love is amazing, so much bigger than the solutions we bring, than the identities and tribes that we form,” he said. “It is a force that breaks through the dividing walls of hostility and brings a community together of life, vitality and love.” See you next year! (location and date of Annual Sessions 2010 to be determined) ............................................................................................................................................

What's New

New staff position job narratives. At annual sessions, delegates were introduced to
new job narratives for regional pastors and a conference minister for leadership transitions. Contact: Dan Miller, lead conference minister
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Shifting from seven clusters to five
regions. As part of transitioning to regionalized ministry staff, the Missional Leadership Team plans to shift from seven clusters to five regions. While partly precipitated by changes in clusters over the last decade and by the economic realities of decreasing revenues, this also offers an opportunity to look again at natural connections between congregations. The plan is to pay attention to what emerges in the next two years as congregations engage a missional imagination and then make further adjustments. See the new regions.
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View photos of Annual Sessions 2009!

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Thank you, Blooming Glen (Pa.) Mennonite Church! Remembering when they received help during a severe drought in 1999, people at Blooming Glen Mennonite wanted to help brothers and sisters in the Goshen/Elkhart area and other IN-MI Conference congregations being hit with a “drought” of jobs, and held a pancake breakfast fundraiser on April 19 that yielded $8,200! What a wonderful gift! Read Robin Long’s (Blooming Glen’s business manager) account of the experience. Plans for collaborative ways to stretch the money are being explored.

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Corinthian Plan enrollment begins
All congregations should be receiving information about The Corinthian Plan, a new health care benefit plan for Mennonite Church USA pastors and church workers. Congregations will have until Oct. 1 to enroll. More information online.

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Beginning April 1, the conference office will be closed on Fridays for a three-month trial period. More information.

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