Conflict Management Support TeamThe Conflict Management Support Team (CMST) serves Central Plains Mennonite Conference congregations to help people address conflicts and harms in healthy, biblically-informed ways. Services range from resources and workshops on communication skills for conflict transformation to facilitation work for requested interventions. To strengthen this work CMST is inviting members of Central Plains churches to consider three different levels of participation:
We ask every church to prayerfully enter into this request for new partners and to collectively discern who might be affirmed by congregations to join our work. Please contact Susan Janzen to learn about next steps or to get more information. |
Workshops and Trainings for Congregations
Resources and Articles for Congregations Facilitation Services and Donations The Power of Being Heard by Ted Lewis Finding Our Way Through Conflict to Reconciliation by Tim Detweiler The Mediator’s Perspective by Lois Janzen Preheim Contact Us: Susan Janzen |
Introducing the team
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Charity Brubaker lives and works on a farm in rural Marion, South Dakota. She earned her B.A. in Social Work from Goshen College in 2004, and has worked intermittently since then facilitating mediations with juveniles and adults in the criminal justice system through the Victim Offender Reconciliation Program in Elkhart, IN and with Restore, Inc. in Sioux Falls, SD. She attends Salem-Zion Mennonite Church outside of Freeman, South Dakota.
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Ted Lewis (Duluth, MN) is a Restorative Justice consultant and trainer with the Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking, University of Minnesota. Since the mid-90's, he has mediated cases in both criminal and civil realms. Since the mid-90's he has mediated cases in both criminal and civil realms. Starting in 2004, Ted provided workshops and reconciliation services for churches in the Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference, and now does the same in the
Midwest. Along with writing articles for Anabaptist World on conflict and communication themes, Ted manages the Restorative Church website. |
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Lon Marshall is a licensed marriage and family therapist. He works in private practice and is the founder and owner of Cornerstone Brief Therapy in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City corridor. He has worked in critical incident debriefing, conflict resolution, counseling and therapy in many contexts for 25 years. He attends West Union Mennonite Church in Parnell, Iowa.
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Sharon Waltner farms with her husband and daughter. In addition, she works part time with the Avera Healthcare System in leadership training and facilitates mediations/interventions. She has taken multiple mediation courses with the Lombard Peace Center and KIPCOR.
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Margie Mejia-Caraballo lives in Rock island, Illinois. She serves as associate pastor at Templo Alabanza in Moline. Margie is a government employee in Iowa and has 18 years of social work experience.
Susan Janzen is the Conference Minister for Ministerial Leadership. Susan works alongside the Conflict Management Support Team.
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