April 26, 2010 issue
MC USA hires coordinator for denominational news
By Mennonite Church USA staffELKHART, Ind. — Annette Brill Bergstresser joined the Mennonite Church USA Executive Leadership communications team April 21 as news service coordinator.
Annette Brill Bergstresser
Bergstresser will be responsible for streamlined news gathering and reporting for Executive Leadership, Mennonite Education Agency, Mennonite Mission Network, Mennonite Mutual Aid, Mennonite Publishing Network and constituency groups.
Bergstresser said she was attracted to the position because “it involves communicating about what God is doing across Mennonite Church USA, building relationships with different parts of the church, and extending the church’s witness to the wider world.”
Bergstresser has a bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism from the University of Kansas. She has been communications coordinator for Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference in Goshen for seven years.
Bergstresser, who grew up not attending church, was baptized at Peace Mennonite Church in Lawrence in 1998. Reading denominational publications deepened her understanding of the broader church, she said.
She did service learning for half a year in the publishing division of the Latin American Anabaptist Seminary in Guatemala City, as well as a term of voluntary service in Chicago. She also studied for a year at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, where she will continue to work part-time as communications assistant.
Bergstresser and her family live in Goshen and are part of Faith Mennonite Church.
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