This article is from the EMU News Archive. The approximate date of publication was in April 2003. Current EMU news is available at www.emu.edu/news
TO EMU HEADLINE NEWS | CAMPUS MINISTRIES |
EMU Names Campus Ministries Team
Eastern Mennonite University has named a new campus ministries team to direct spiritual life programs.
Brian M. Burkholder
Byron J. Peachey
Julie A. HaushalterBrian Martin Burkholder will be campus pastor and Byron J. Peachey and Julie A. Haushalter will serve as associate campus pastors.
The trio will give leadership to university chapel programming and other campus ministries events, work with students designated as pastoral and ministry assistants, help students examine the relationship between their faith commitments and their life’s work, promote Bible study and prayer groups on campus, relate to the Youth People’s Christian Association (YPCA) and do pastoral counseling
"We are pleased to be able to expand campus ministries through the use of Lilly Endowment funds," said interim EMU President Beryl H. Brubaker. "This is a significant step toward achieving the first goal of our strategic plan, that is, to nurture faith. EMU is committed to nurture genuine faith while educating students to live in a spiritually diverse world. We believe the three pastors we have chosen will bring complementary gifts that help us to achieve this goal," she added.
Burkholder has been program director of Amigo Centre in Sturgis, Mich., an outreach program of Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference, since 1998. Before that, he was interim campus pastor at Goshen (Ind.) College and a school counselor and teacher in several public school systems in Ohio.
Burkholder received a bachelor of science degree in elementary education from the University of Akron (Ohio), a master of arts in education in school counseling from the University of Akron and a master of divinity degree in pastoral ministry from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind.
An experienced worship and music leader, he is a frequent speaker for youth retreats and summer camp programs. He is a board member and small group coordinator at Florence Church of the Brethren-Mennonite congregation and a member of the Sturgis Area Ministerial Association.
Peachey, of Harrisonburg, was interim campus pastor at EMU during the 2002-2003 school year. Earlier, he served four years as co-director of the Mennonite Central Committee’s work in El Salvador which included supervising 10 full-time volunteer workers in rural and urban settings and doing program development, budgeting and evaluation.
For 10 years, Peachey was involved in an inner-city mission congregation, Community of Hope in Washington, D.C., where he was a social worker and development director.
Peachey earned a bachelor of arts degree in social work from Catholic University of America and a master of arts in theology degree with a mission and cross-cultural studies concentration from Washington Theological Union, Silver Spring, Md.
He attends Shalom Mennonite Church, which meets on the EMU campus.
Haushalter received a B.S. degree in special education from Eastern Michigan University and a M.Ed. degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a licensed pastor in the United Methodist Church. Haushalter has been assistant minister of worship at Asbury United Methodist Church in Harrisonburg, while also pursuing theological studies at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. She received a master of divinity degree from the seminary on Apr. 26, 2003.
Before moving to Harrisonburg, Haushalter was a full-time staff member at Gulf Breeze (Fla.) United Methodist Church, a 3,000-plus member multi-site congregation.
She was missions coordinator and director of children’s ministries, including managing a large early childhood education program, leading Bible studies for parents of young children and supervising college student teacher interns.
The campus ministries appointments are effective with the start of the fall semester Aug. 27, 2003.
Posted: April 30, 2003
