Nancy R. Heisey, Harrisonburg, Virginia, is joined in her commitment to love God and neighbor by her husband, Paul Longacre. They have two adult daughters and two beautiful granddaughters. Nancy grew up as a Brethren in Christ missionary kid among Navajo people. She is a graduate of Messiah College, Eastern Mennonite Seminary, and Temple University. Heisey teaches New Testament and church history at Eastern Mennonite University and is current chair of the Bible and Religion Department. Heisey is President of Mennonite World Conference, a global family of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches. Dennis Hollinger, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, is Vice Provost and College Pastor as well as Professor of Christian Ethics at Messiah College. Before coming to Messiah in 1997, he served as pastor of the Washington Community Fellowship in Washington, D.C. For eleven years he was a full-time seminary professor and over the years has done short-term international seminary teaching in India, Russia, and Ukraine. Hollinger is the author of over fifty articles and two books, most recently Choosing the Good: Christian Ethics in a Complex World (Baker Academic, 2002). He has a Ph.D. from Drew University in Religion and Society and an M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Hollinger is coeditor for the Eerdmans’ series, Critical Issues in Bioethics, is a Fellow with the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, and sits on the Health Care Ethics Committee at Holy Spirit Hospital. Hollinger and his wife, Mary Ann, have two daughters. Franklyn "Lynn" Jost, Hillsboro, Kansas, graduated with a B.A. from Tabor College, an M.Div. from Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in homiletics and Hebrew Bible from Vanderbilt University. He was pastor of the Hesston Mennonite Brethren Church from 1982-1990, has taught biblical and religious studies at Tabor College since 1990, and is currently the chair of the humanities division. He was chair of the North American Board of Faith and Life and its task force that produced the 1999 Canadian and US Mennonite Brethren Confession of Faith and currently chairs the US BFL. Lynn and his wife, Donna, are parents of a daughter and a son. Renée Sauder, Kitchener, Ontario, graduated with an M.Div. from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana, and went on to serve as a pastor of the Bethel College Mennonite Church, North Newton, Kansas; and Erb Street Mennonite, Church, Waterloo, Ontario. The stories of these faith communities have inspired her sermons and nurtured her love of preaching over the last twenty years. Mary H. Schertz, Elkhart, Indiana, is professor of New Testament at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart. She received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and has been happily occupied teaching Greek and New Testament for the past fifteen years. She co-authored Seeing the Text: Exegesis for Students of Greek and Hebrew (Abingdon, 2001) with Perry B. Yoder. She is a member of Assembly Mennonite Church in Goshen. Nathan D. Showalter, Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, enjoys preaching as a pastor, bishop, and church planter, serving most recently as overseer and director of leadership development with Lancaster (Pa.) Mennonite Conference. He has preached in multicultural congregations in North America and Asia, and for eight years was senior pastor of Taipei (Taiwan) International Church. He has helped start more than a dozen new congregations, including a Filipino congregation in Taiwan. Showalter also worked as a communications specialist with World Vision International, collaborating with World Vision staff on six continents. A graduate of Eastern Mennonite University (B.A.), Fuller Theological Seminary (M.A.), Lancaster Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Harvard University (Th.D.), he is author of "The End of a Crusade: The Student Volunteer for Foreign Missions and the Great War" (1990). Showalter’s wife Christina was born in China and their son Eli born in Hong Kong. Rebecca Slough, Elkhart, Indiana, is Associate Professor of Worship and the Arts at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary. She holds an M.Div. from AMBS, an M.A. in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union. Her studies in worship use the disciplines of theology, church history, hymnology, ritual studies, and sociolinguistics. She served as managing editor of Hymnal: A Worship Book from 1989 to 1992. Slough regularly reviews books on worship, music, and ritual for Religious Studies Review. Her life is full of teaching, worship planning and leading, leading congregational singing, playing piano, and traveling with her husband, Joseph Miller. David A. Stevens, Sellersville, Pennsylvania, has been a pastor at Blooming Glen (Pa.) Mennonite Church since 1993. Before that, he was pastor in Salem, New Jersey, in the American Baptist Churches, and at First Mennonite Church of Denver, Colorado. He holds a B.A. in psychology from Rutgers University and an M.Div. from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has also done graduate study in Old Testament at Iliff School of Theology/University of Denver. In addition to his work as a pastor, Dave has taught Old Testament courses through the Eastern Mennonite Seminary extension program, at the EMS School of Leadership Training, and at West Indies Theological College, Santa Cruz, Trinidad. He has had numerous articles published in The Mennonite, The Gospel Herald, Christian Living, and Mennonite Weekly Review as well as two Unified Series Adult Bible Study guides for Mennonite Publishing House. In his free time Dave enjoys running, roller-blading, biking, playing drums, guitar and bass, and creative writing. He lives in Sellersville with his wife Carole, a clinical dietician, and daughters Laura and Katie. Ervin R. Stutzman, Harrisonburg, Virginia, is the Academic Dean at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, a graduate division of Eastern Mennonite University. He is also founder and director of the Preaching Institute, a continuing education resource for both aspiring and experienced preachers. Ervin served from 1978 as a pastor and overseer in Ohio and then in Pennsylvania. From 1995, he served on the General Board of the Mennonite Church and helped it to merge with the General Conference Mennonite Church. From 2001 to 2003, he served as Moderator of the new body—Mennonite Church USA. Stutzman now lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, with his wife Bonita, who is an ordained minister serving as a hospital chaplain. Mark R. Wenger, Waynesboro, Virginia, works bi-vocationally as co-pastor, Springdale Mennonite Church in Waynesboro; and Associate Director, Preaching Institute at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. He received a B.A. from Eastern Mennonite College (1979) and an M.Div. from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (1984). In May 2000 he graduated with a Ph.D. in Practical Theology: Preaching and Worship from Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia. He has held several leadership positions in Atlantic Coast Conference of the Mennonite Church and is currently Assistant Moderator of Virginia Mennonite Conference. Wenger and his wife Kathy have two teenage daughters. Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm, Richmond, Indiana, is Assistant Professor of Preaching and Worship at Bethany Theological Seminary (Church of the Brethren) in Richmond. After having been a psychiatric and trauma hospital chaplain, she served for several years as an ordained Church of the Brethren pastor in Pennsylvania before beginning work on her Ph.D. in practical theology (concentrating in homiletics) at Princeton Theological Seminary. She is presently writing her dissertation, "The Prophet Voice in Preaching: The Witness of Jesus Christ in the Preaching of the Church," while teaching courses in preaching, worship, and ritual studies. Ottoni Wilhelm and her husband Mark have three children. June Alliman Yoder, Elkhart, Indiana, is Associate Professor of Communication and Preaching at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, where she teaches preaching and other speech communication courses. She has a B.A. in speech communication from Goshen College, an M.A. in theater arts from the University of Iowa, an M.Div. from AMBS, and a D.Min. from Bethany Theological Seminary. Though June is best known across the church as a preacher, lecturer, and performer, she recently edited The Work Is Thine, O Christ (in honor of Erland Waltner, 2002). She has also recently been published in Biblical Preaching Journal; Vision, A Journal for Church and Theology, and The Abingdon Women’s Preaching Annual. June and her husband, John, are members of College Mennonite Church in Goshen and have one adult daughter, Amanda. Anabaptist Preaching orders:
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