James C. Longacre was born and raised on a family farm in Barto, Pennsylvania, the youngest of seven children. For the first five years of school, he attended a one-room school across the road from the farm. He is a graduate of Boyertown Area High School and Eastern Mennonite College (now University) in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He holds a Master of Arts degree from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. An ordained Mennonite pastor, he has been a pastor in three Mennonite congregations. For six years he served as the Moderator of the Franconia Mennonite Conference and then for eleven years as the Franconia Mennonite Conference Coordinator. Beyond the local Mennonite community he has also served on various churchwide Mennonite committees and boards, including the Mennonite Church General Board; the Theological Education Committee of the Mennonite Board of Education; the Mennonite Church Council on Faith, Life, and Strategy; and the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary Board of Directors. For six years he chaired the U. S. Peace Section of the Mennonite Central Committee. Currently Longacre continues to farm and serves congregations as visiting preacher and teacher. He and his wife, Ellen Rose Herr Longacre, are the parents of three adult children. |
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