March 16, 2009 issue
MC USA appoints 2 churchwide leaders
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NEWTON, Kan. — Mennonite Church USA Executive Leadership has hired two new staff members.
Lever
Lee Lever of Moundridge has begun a new assignment as interim director of denominational ministry. He will lead a team of denominational ministers providing support and encouragement for conference ministers.
Lever began as a denominational minister with EL in August 2007.
He previously served for three years as associate conference minister with Western District Conference. He has served as a pastor in Kansas and Washington.
Lever has a master of divinity degree from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Ind., and a doctor of ministry in congregational development from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Ill.
Lever and his wife, Terri, are members of Faith Mennonite Church in Newton, Kan., and live in Moundridge. They have three adult children.
“I sense the Holy Spirit working within Mennonite Church USA in new ways, drawing us toward a renewed understanding of who we are and what we are to be about in the midst of changing times,” Lever said.
Nancy Kauffmann of Goshen, Ind., will join Lee Lever as a denominational minister for Mennonite Church USA Executive Leadership, effective May 1.
Kauffmann has served as a conference regional minister for Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference since 2000. Previously she served on the pastoral team of College Mennonite Church in Goshen for 19 years.
She also served for three years on the student services staff for the former Mennonite Board of Missions and taught youth ministries courses at Goshen College for four years.
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