Worship: Thursday, June 25 at 7:30p Eastern Time at Martin Chapel, Eastern Mennonite Seminary.
- Theme
- Speaker: Shannon Dycus
- Offering
With a passion towards community building and education, the Rev. Dr. Shannon Dycus has spent 15 years working in learning communities and ministry settings. Before serving as President, Interim President, Vice President of Student Affairs, Equity and Belonging at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), she was a co-pastor at First Mennonite Church in Indianapolis, IN, supporting the spiritual formation of that community through preaching and teaching.
Worship: Friday, June 26 at 2:00p Eastern Time at Martin Chapel, Eastern Mennonite Seminary.
- Theme
- Speaker: Cesar Moya
- Offering: Central District Conference
César Moya was born in Colombia and is married to Patricia Urueña, to whom he has three children (Daniel, Juan, and Andre) and one granddaughter (Sol Carolina). Since January 2024, he has been a pastor at Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Gainesville, FL, where a program supporting migrant people has been developed through English classes.
In the past, he served as a pastor in various congregations, as Executive Secretary, and as President of the Mennonite Church in Colombia. Also, he served as a Mennonite Mission Network worker for several years in Ecuador. César has experience in peacebuilding and transculturality, as well as with migrant, peasant, and indigenous populations. He is a researcher and writer of several books and articles on the ethics of reconciliation and peace and Anabaptism, and he is the director of the journal of the Latin American Network of Anabaptist Studies, RELEA.
Worship: Saturday, June 27 at 7:30p Eastern Time at Martin Chapel, Eastern Mennonite Seminary.
- Theme: Reclaiming our power to burp – Daniel 3:1-30
- Speaker: J Daryl Byler
- Offering: Rise Up! Take Courage! Mutual Aid Fund
- Communion
Building on the stories of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and little Mack in Dr. Seuss’s children’s book, Yertle the Turtle, the message will explore what it might look like today for Anabaptist Christians to courageously refuse to cooperate with authoritarian political and economic systems that oppress ordinary people.
J. Daryl Byler is director of development at the DC Bar Foundation, which supports organizations that provide free legal help to people with low income. He previously served as executive director of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University and in several roles with Mennonite Central Committee. He is married to Cindy Lehman Byler. They have three adult children and six grandchildren.
