MC USA Women’s Summit 2025: Beholding it Together
A Sacred Space to Rest, Reclaim and Resist
🗓 Date: July 8, 2025
📍 Location: Koury Convention Center, Greensboro, North Carolina
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In a world that demands constant labor and productivity, what if rest was an act of resistance?
The MC USA Women’s Summit 2025 is more than just a gathering—it’s a movement toward reclaiming time, breaking cycles, and finding our power in the presence of one another. With the theme “Beholding it Together,” this one-day summit offers women in MC USA a space to pause, reflect, and be affirmed in their callings, ministries and faith journeys.
Why Attend?
✨ Rediscover rest as resistance
This summit explores how rest is a sacred tool for resisting oppression and fostering personal well-being.
✨ Engage with thought leaders & storytellers
Join Shannon Dycus, our keynote speaker and vice president for Student Affairs, Equity and Belonging at Eastern Mennonite University, as we journey together toward healing and empowerment.
✨ Experience transformative worship & storytelling
Be inspired by worship leaders Katerina Gea, Daniela Lázaro-Manalo, and Sue Park-Hur, and engage with powerful stories—like that of Rosemarie Freeney Harding, a civil rights activist, shared through the voice of Michelle Armster.
✨ Learn from our extraordinary panelists
Hear from an incredible lineup of women who have reclaimed their voices and power, including:
- Rev. Dr. Sarah Ann Bixler – Associate Dean, Eastern Mennonite Seminary
- Abby Endashaw – MCC Summer Service National Coordinator
- Joanne Gallardo – Conference Minister, Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference
- Chris Hoover – Spiritual Director, Soulence
- Cyneatha Millsaps – Executive Director, Goshen’s Center for Community Engagement & Mennonite Women USA
- Laura Pauls-Thomas, Communications Director, MCC East Coast
- Hyacinth Stevens – Executive Director, MCC East Coast
- Sara Wenger Shenk – Theologian, Preacher, Author
✨ Engage in Meaningful Intergenerational Dialogue
Take part in a dedicated time for open and honest conversations with women of all ages, sharing experiences, wisdom and challenges related to our bodies, self-image, strengths and struggles.
What to Expect
🌿 Space to breathe – Step away from daily demands and simply be.
💬 Deep conversations – Engage in honest discussions on feeling seen, heard and valued.
🔥 Inspiration – Walk away with renewed vision and energy for your journey.
This summit is for you—women of all ages and backgrounds who are ready to reclaim rest, resist oppression and behold the power of community.
Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of something transformative.
🔗 Register today! Click Here
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The MC USA Women’s Summit is organized by MC USA’s Women in Leadership, which works to dismantle patriarchal systems in MC USA by empowering women to live out the call of God on their lives, increase their capacities, and contribute their wisdom in congregations, area conferences, agencies and institutions.
The Women in Leadership Steering Committee planning team is Abby Endashaw, Lynette McIntosh Madrigal, Daniela Lazaro-Manalo, Shannon Dycus, Katerina Gea, Sue Park-Hur, with staff liaison Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz.