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2007-06-19 issue:

10 interns is Franconia Conference record

Summer program lets college students explore church ministry opportunities.

by Sheldon Good

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A record-setting 10 students began their internships through Franconia (Pa.) Mennonite Conference in late May as part of Mennonite Church USA’s summer inquiry program. Two college students are working directly with the conference, while eight are interning at various ministries across the United States.

This year, through a grant from Eastern Mennonite Seminary in Harrisonburg, Va., three Franconia Conference students attending non-Mennonite institutions are participating in the ministry inquiry program: Tim Moyer, a sophomore at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, from the Blooming Glen (Pa.) congregation; Felicia Moore, member at New Beginnings Community Church in Bristol, Pa., who is in her second year at Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia Praise Center attendee and first-year Penn State University student Andrew Liemon. Moyer is working with Franconia Mennonite Conference, while Moore and Liemon are assisting with ministries at their home congregations.

Two students are interning with congregations in the Midwest: John Tyson, a sophomore at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, and a member at Souderton (Pa.) Mennonite Church, is at Christ Community Church in Des Moines, Iowa; EMU sophomore Jordan Good, a member of Bally (Pa.) Mennonite Church is spending his 11 weeks with Walnut Hill Mennonite Church in Goshen, Ind. Three students are with congregations on the East Coast: Jessica Cassel, a sophomore at Bluffton (Ohio) University, is working in youth ministry at her home congregation, Souderton Mennonite; Emily Derstine of Plains Mennonite Church in Hatfield, Pa., a sophomore studying at EMU, will spend her summer in suburban Washington with Nueva Esperanza/New Hope Fellowship; Goshen College junior Peter Koontz, a member at Assembly Mennonite Church in Goshen is with Oxford Circle congregation in Philadelphia. Two Goshen College students are participating in their college’s unique inquiry programs—camping inquiry and service inquiry: Mercy Oyana, West Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship, is working alongside managers at Spruce Lake Camp; Krista Ehst, a member at Perkasie (Pa.) Mennonite Church, is with Moyer at Franconia Conference.

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