Annual Gathering moves to VIRTUAL Format
Join us September 27th-29th from the comfort of your home!ANNUAL GATHERING 2024 IS NOW VIRTUAL!
Join us from anywhere for Fellowship, Celebration of MHF’s 80th Anniversary, Mutual Support, and Learning.
Healthcare providers who seek to keep their faith forefront in what they do while pursuing ethical, evidence-based care are challenged on every front in today’s profit-focused, hectic healthcare system. Even if we can articlate what a Christian and Anabaptist approach to providing healthcare for those that seek our care – how do we actually live that ethic when confonted with intractible systems of power and profit?
80 years ago a group of Anabapitst nurses and a group of physicians gathered together to ask these very same questions – and although the context has certainly changed, the urgency and need to come together and encourage one another in our discernment and living of Anabaptist ethics and values in healthcare has remained as vital as ever.
Join Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship for our 80th Anniversary Annual Gathering to honor and learn from those who have been living an Anabaptist healthcare ethic for many years and those who are creatively discovering new ways to live their faith in healthcare practice today as young professionals and pioneers in their fields. Attendees reflect that Annual Gathering is a turning point in their careers in being able to be fully themselves in all the spaces they go: Anabaptist and dedicated health professionals.
The MHF Board has supported moving to a Virtual format to make the gathering more accessible to members who were unable to travel for health reasons and our international members. We look forward to welcoming you on Zoom and spending time togheter! Watch for announcements of one-day local regional gatherings we plan to host this year on the East Coast and Indiana.
Virtual Annual Gathering Schedule:
Friday, September 27th, 2024
6-7 PM EST – Social Gathering for Legacy and Leadership Circle Members via Zoom
7 – 7:15 PM EST – Opening Prayers / Worship and Welcome by MHF Board and Director, Guide to the Weekend / Framing
7:15-8 – “A Community Ethic in Mennonite Healthcare History” – Paul Leichty, Executive Director Emeritus
8-8:45 – “Toward an Anabaptist Medical Ethic” – Joe Kotva, PhD
Saturday, September 28th, 2024
9:00-9:45 MHF’s Future: Connect with MHF Board with Your Ideas
9:45-10- Opening Prayers, Worship and Welcome
10-11:30 Plenary Session – Joe K Plenary “Climate Health: The Intersection of Healthcare and Climate Change”
LUNCH BREAK
12:30 – Cate Reflections w/ Joe and Introduction of Dodanim
1:00 – 2:00 Dodanim Lans Vásquez Campos – Health as a Natural Extension of Christian Service: Celebrating 80 Years of Mennonite Health Fellowship, leading like Moisés to the Future or Promised Land
2-2:15 – Formal Closing w/ Cate and Board
2:15-3:00 “Parking Lot” Convo w/ the Board – stay on Zoom for an informal time of chatting and catching up!
Sunday, September 29th, 2024
10:30 AM Participate via ZOOM or in-person with North Baltimore Mennonite Church worship service and hear and Jeanne Davis from Anabaptist Disabilities Network discuss accessibility in the worship space. After the sermon response time, MHF participants are invited to a separate Zoom room where we will continue our discussion about accessibility.
Those who register for the Full Weekend at a donation level of $80 or higher will receive recordings of each main session over the weekend.
Single-day registration also available, and family participants who will share one screen can register at a special discount!
THANK YOU for joining us for this more accessible format for Annual Gathering and generously supporting the work of MHF!
REGISTER FOR ANNUAL GATHERING NOW ->>>>
Our Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Joe Kotva
Joe Kotva, PhD is a former Mennonite pastor, avid cyclist, lifelong photographer, climate change advocate, and grateful husband (to Carol) and father (to Joseph and Matthew). He co-directs the Scholarly Concentration in Ethics, Equity, and Justice at the IU School of Medicine – South Bend and is the co-editor, with M. Therese Lysaught, of On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives on Medical Ethics.