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Zion Mennonite Church supports a number of missionaries and volunteer service workers in the field. Basic contact information and a brief description are provided below. Please click on a name to jump to their information: Oleg and Irina Artemiev Oleg and Irina Artemiev - Oleg and Irina and their son Anton were part of our congregation while he attended Eastern Mennonite Seminary. They have returned to ministry in Siberia (in Russia) and they are a part of our outreach.
Steve and Betsy Dintaman - Steve and Betsy are members of Zion Mennonite Church who are serving at Lithuania Christian College. They are serving through Mennonite Mission Network. View the Dintaman's page for more details.
Joe and Cheryl Hollinger - Joe and Cheryl and their family (Jacob, Chris, and Jordan) are serving in Wales, UK, at the Craig Christian Centre. They are serving through Eastern Mennonite Missions.
June Lantz - June is a member of Zion Mennonite Church who Teaches English in Louyang China. She serves through China Educational Exchange and Mennonite Mission Network. She will be serving in China until the summer of 2004. This is from a recent message from June about her activities: I am doing fine here and as far as I know there aren't any official SARS cases here in Luoyang. Life is pretty much back to normal around here but I don't think people are traveling as much as before. We still must wear a school pin in order to enter the school campus and the May 1st holiday was canceled. I did hear a rumor that maybe we will get out early at the end of this semester. Right now I am teaching 12 periods of oral English and being tutored in Chinese for 6 periods. Most of my students are graduate students. I do have one class of Business Dept. teachers. My tutor is familiar with my culture having visited the US for a year and half. She spent a half year in Harrisonburg and even had a chance to meet some of my family. I am enjoying my experience here very much. One thing that makes this experience exciting is that there is a family here with me. The family is also with CEE. They are Nate and Bekki Siemens and their children Elias and Christabel. It is nice being around kids.
Laura Lehman - Laura is a member of Zion Mennonite Church who is on a one year term of service with Service Adventure in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Service Adventure is an agency associated with the Mennonite Mission Network. It is a 10 1/2 month short-term mission program, specifically designed for post-high school young adults. Laura's specific assignment is as Education Assistant with the Albuquerque Public School System. While there Laura will be attending and be involved in the ministry of the Albuquerque Mennonite Church. Laura is currently living with three other participants.
Sara Neuenschwander - In September 2004, Sara will start a three-year term of service with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) to serve in Jos, Nigeria. She will be working at a free clinic called Faith Alive Clinic. The majority of the patients who come to the clinic are HIV/AIDS positive. In fact, the clinic tests an average of 11 new HIV/AIDS patients each day. The clinic works a lot with HIV/AIDS testing, follow up care/counseling and outreach/prevention. She will live in an apartment there which will be about a 20 minute walk to the clinic and very close to the MCC Nigeria office. The MCC office sends out mail to Nigeria every other week and could send If anyone would like to send a package, they should use a courier like Virginia Showalter - Virginia is a member of Zion Mennonite Church who is on a two-year term of service with MCC in Washington, DC. She is working with the Central American Resource Center which assists inner city immigrants with legal, housing, and educational needs. She is living with six other MCC volunteers in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood in the northwest section of the city.
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