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[Beth Hawn <BethAH@mbm.org>]

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June 16, 1999
Mennonite Board of Missions
Beth Hawn
(219) 294-7523
<NEWS@MBM.org>

EMU grads are led into Service Adventure leadership

HARRISONBURG, Va. (GCMC/MBM) - >"You make a lot of good friends at >Eastern 
>Mennonite University.  When you keep in touch with your friends and >they
do 
>interesting things like Service Adventure, you get interested, and [then] 
you do it yourself," said Shelby Hertzler by way of explaining>by way by how
he 
and his wife, Jodi Nisly Hertzler, became Service Adventure leaders in
Albany, 
Ore., last August.
>
The Hertzlers attended EMU with Chad and Minnette Hostetler, who have been 
Service Adventure leaders in Philippi, W.Va., since 1997.  During the 
Hostetlers' first year in Philippi, the Hertzlers came to visit for a
weekend.  
Through talking with Chad and Minnette and observing the unit, they started 
thinking about the possibility for themselves. 

>Eight of the 1998-1999 Service Adventure leaders, including the Hertzlers, 
attended EMU at different times >and now >find themselves serving in a 
program that has stretched their minds in >new >directions.  Service
Adventure 
is a joint program of Mennonite Board of Missions of the >Mennonite >Church 
and the Commission on Home Ministries of the General >Conference >Mennonite 
Church.  Service Adventure provides post-high school young >adults >with a
 short-term adventure in service, learning and spiritual growth.  > Each >of

the 10 units has adult leaders who guide the participants through >10 1/2 -
month >terms of serving and learning.

"For a joint program whose constituency spans all of North America, it is
quite 
amazing that so many of our recent leaders have come out of one institution
- 
EMU," said Kent Dutchersmith, MBM personnel counselor.  "Although this is 
wonderful, it is not intentional.  It suggests to me that EMU is doing an
excellent 
job of encouraging people to live out their faith."

So >why has Service Adventure attracted EMU alumni into leadership? 

>"I think the atmosphere at EMU is unique," said Jodi Nisly Hertzler.
"There's 
a general lack of interest in joining the rat race.  I felt some push to
find a 
'career,' but not much pressure to find a career that would be particularly 
lucrative.  There was more of a push to do something 'meaningful' or 
interesting.

"Most of my professors had spent a portion of their lives in service, and
most 
of my friends were planning to do the same," Jodi said.  "Shelby and I began

looking for service opportunities before we got married.  Service Adventure
is 
the one that clicked.  This was a way to break our old patterns and start a
new 
one - a pattern focused on service and community."

>Gary and Kim Martin began serving in Anchorage, Alaska, in January 1999.  
"I >had >always wanted to do this type of service when I graduated from high
>
school, >but never found my way to such a program," Gary said.  "I felt I
could >
relate >to young adults who had questions about what to do with their lives
>
immediately after high school."
>
>"We had originally wanted to come to Alaska to teach," he added, >"but
>felt
 we needed to have a strong base of Christian support.  >>We have been 
[receiving] affirmation after affirmation that we made a >good >choice
accepting 
a leadership position.  It has allowed >Kim >and me to work together and 
develop joint leadership skills."
>
The Martins will serve in Anchorage until December 2000.  >Other graduates
from 
EMU are Dwight and Susan Huyard, who >served in Anchorage from January 
1997 through December 1998; >Chad and >Minnette Hostetler serving in
Philippi,
 W.Va.,W.V., until July 2000, and Ken Beidler, who will be the unit leader
in 
Albuquerque, N.M., beginning in August 1999 until July 2001.
>>
"While it's taxing sometimes, there is also something deeply inspiring and
motivating 
in this kind of work," said Minette Hostetler.  "It's seeing the growth that
happens 
[to the participants] over 10 1/2 months and knowing that our work is going
to stick with 
these young adults down the road, even if they don't see it right now."

>Service Adventure now operates units in Albany, Ore.; Albuquerque, >N.M.; >
Anchorage, Alaska; Champaign, Ill.; Johnstown, Pa.; Lethbridge, >Alberta.; >
Norristown, Pa.; Philippi, W.Va.; Raleigh, N.C.; and South Bend, Ind.  A new

unit in Lebanon, Ore., will begin in the fall.

          >* * *
>
>MBM staff
>PHOTO AVAILABLE

Leaders are needed for the 1999-2000 Service Adventure term.  
If you are interested in being a Service Adventure leader or participant, 
contact Diana Cook at <SA@MBM.org>.  

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