New Executive Conference Minister for PSMC
The Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference Board is excited to announce that Stanley W. Green will be our next Executive Conference Minister, beginning September 1, 2020. Stanley is currently completing 19 years as Executive Director of Mennonite Mission Network, and is retiring from that position this summer. Born and reared in South Africa, Green was part of the student movement that helped dismantle the legal apartheid system. Prior to taking the helm at Mission Network, Green served as pastor, conference minister and mission executive in South Africa, Jamaica and the United States.
Stanley shared with the PSMC search committee that the love that he and his wife, Ursula, share for the Pacific Southwest and its people comes from the years they spent in that region, being integrated there into the Mennonite faith and serving the church there. He writes “I wholeheartedly accept the invitation by the PSMC Conference to this new assignment and the honor that it will be for me to serve in this role. We fondly remember the love and warm reception we felt there as new Mennonites and feel drawn back by those memories and the opportunity to serve.”
The PSMC Board is enthusiastic about the gifts that Stanley will bring to leadership with the PSMC Board and our diverse congregations, including Stanley’s deep commitment to participation in God’s mission, his breadth of visionary leadership experience, his high level of intercultural competency, and his appreciation for the diverse congregations that make up Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference. We are grateful that his journey is bringing him and Ursula back to Pacific Southwest Conference and we are eager to welcome them as they transition to the Los Angeles area.
We are also grateful to our current Executive Conference Minister, Clare Ann Ruth-Heffelbower, who has agreed to extend serving through August 2020 before retiring, in order to help with this transition. Clare Ann has provided strong leadership to our Board, pastors and church leaders. The PSMC board extends a deep sense of gratitude to Clare Ann and appreciation for her leadership, dedication to our conference, and for her support in this leadership transition.
Stanley shared with the PSMC search committee that the love that he and his wife, Ursula, share for the Pacific Southwest and its people comes from the years they spent in that region, being integrated there into the Mennonite faith and serving the church there. He writes “I wholeheartedly accept the invitation by the PSMC Conference to this new assignment and the honor that it will be for me to serve in this role. We fondly remember the love and warm reception we felt there as new Mennonites and feel drawn back by those memories and the opportunity to serve.”
The PSMC Board is enthusiastic about the gifts that Stanley will bring to leadership with the PSMC Board and our diverse congregations, including Stanley’s deep commitment to participation in God’s mission, his breadth of visionary leadership experience, his high level of intercultural competency, and his appreciation for the diverse congregations that make up Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference. We are grateful that his journey is bringing him and Ursula back to Pacific Southwest Conference and we are eager to welcome them as they transition to the Los Angeles area.
We are also grateful to our current Executive Conference Minister, Clare Ann Ruth-Heffelbower, who has agreed to extend serving through August 2020 before retiring, in order to help with this transition. Clare Ann has provided strong leadership to our Board, pastors and church leaders. The PSMC board extends a deep sense of gratitude to Clare Ann and appreciation for her leadership, dedication to our conference, and for her support in this leadership transition.
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