EXPO 2025

Join us for a free event on Friday, September 26, from 5:00 to 7:00
This event is for the entire family. For more details HERE

Theme: No Other Foundation

Key Scriptures: 1 Cor. 3:11; Eph. 2:20; 4:1–16; Rom. 12

Our Fall Leadership Assembly 2025 is fast approaching! We are working hard to prepare for this special, multi-day event held September 24-27 celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the birth of Anabaptism.

Below, find more information like the tentative schedule, registration, and FAQs. If you have any questions, please email information@lmcchurches.org.

Speakers:

Alongside thirty years in local church leadership at Burlington Church, Ceri and Simon Harris lead 5Q in Europe, coaching leaders and churches in missional discipleship and their APEST intelligence, helping release the latent potential that exists in the church. Understanding APEST as a gift to the world, they lead out on MPACT in the UK, helping business teams work better together. They are founding directors of Wholehearted Solutions helping individuals, teams, and organizations flourish, and have captured their approach in their recent book, Wholehearted Leadership. They live in Suffolk, England, and have four adult children and three grandchildren.

Marcia Mylin is a member of the Bishop Elder Team and serves as the STEP Director. Additionally, she is responsible for event planning and human resources for LMC staff. She and her husband Dale have five adult children and are members of Byerland Mennonite Church.

Tuyen Nguyen is a member of the Bishop Elder Team, a Bishop of the Philadelphia District, and a member of the EMM board. Tuyen also focuses time on ministering to and training leaders for the Vietnamese Mennonite Church in Vietnam. He and his wife Aileen have three children and four grandchildren.

Keith Blank is a member of the Bishop Elder Team and is the Bishop for the Landisville-Manor District. He is co-vocational, also working as a licensed realtor. Keith previously served as lead pastor of Mountville Mennonite Church for nine years. He and his wife Brenda have three adult children and five grandchildren.

Rodney Martin is a member of the Bishop Elder Team. Formerly, he served as a Bishop for the Conestoga River District and as the pastor of Lititz Mennonite Church. He has a passion to see the church in movement, connecting with younger generations to make disciples who live Christ-centered lives that are transforming the world. He and his wife Angie have two children.

Adalberto Santiago is LMC’s Conference Minister. He has been pastoring Congregación Menonita Shalom since 2002. Since 2015, he has been serving at the level of the CIES Council and joined a team with CIES President and Executive Committee. he is also part of the Credentialing Committee, the Bishop Board, and the Conference Executive Council. He and his wife Jenny have four children.

Glenn Kauffman is a Bishop for LMC and serves as the Lead Pastor for Capital Christian Fellowship in Maryland. Additionally, he serves as LMC’s Movement Navigator. He has a vision to coach and encourage pastors and their leadership teams to grow as healthy, multiplying, life-transforming congregations in the body of Christ.

Juanita Nuñez and her husband Eligio both serve on the Bishop team for the Southeast Mennonite Conference district of LMC. She has a vision to encourage pastors and congregations to actively participate in Christ’s reconciling ministry.

Hyacinth Stevens is a member of the New York City District Oversight Team. Additionally, she serves as the Executive Director of MCC East Coast. She has served the church as a pastor, teacher, mentor, and program developer. Her and her husband Benjamin, also an LMC credentialed leader, have four children.

Mark Wenger serves as a Bishop for the LanChester, New Danville, and Willow Street-Strasburg Districts. He sees local congregations as outposts of God’s mission to bless their communities through the good news of Jesus Christ.

William Higgins serves as an LMC resource staff in the area of theological education and Anabaptist Christian identity formation. He also serves part-time as a non-resident missionary for EMM. His vision is to help congregations and individuals be Spirit-empowered disciples of Jesus, living lives that engage and impact the world around us. He and his wife Stacey attend New Danville Mennonite Church.

Mark Thiessen Nation is an author and Professor Emeritus at Eastern Mennonite University. His passion is to discern with others what it means to articulate afresh the holistic gospel of Jesus Christ for today.

Lorri Bentch serves as the Mission Team Director at EMM, providing strategy and oversight for the sending, resourcing, and partnering of EMM workers around the world. Previously, Lorri served as a missionary in Hungary. She and her husband Tim have three daughters.

Schedule:

Click on each day to see the schedule.

Friday Local History Tours

Small Church, Big Possibilities: Reimagining Ministry in the Margins

Location: River Corner Church, 524 River Corner Rd., Conestoga PA 17516

Time: 9:30 am – 12:00 pm on Friday, September 26

Cost: Free

Join us in our historic stone meetinghouse at River Corner Church, where Jesus followers have gathered since the early 1700s. Throughout our history, we’ve remained a small church—but one marked by deep intentionality. In 2022, we embraced a new chapter, honoring the past while reimagining our future. In the last three years, we’ve refreshed our bylaws, governance, vision, values, and crafted our own statement of faith. Our community has grown from 12 to 45 as we’ve leaned into becoming a creative and simple community of Jesus followers.

This gathering will offer conversation and connection for leaders of smaller churches who are curious about what renewal and sustainability can look like. We’ll discuss how small congregations can thrive through creative workarounds in areas like digital design, websites, events, editing, and shared leadership. Prepare to share your hopes, resources, and questions. Whether you’re in a season of discernment, transition, or hope, this time together will offer encouragement, ideas, and solidarity.

Register online here. You are able to choose a ticket for just Wednesday and Thursday, just Friday, just Saturday, or for all four days.

Translation:

Spanish translation will be available Wednesday and Thursday, and for the main Leadership Assembly sessions Friday evening and Saturday. Please indicate on the registration form if you need Spanish translation.

Frequently Asked Questions: