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 in 2020, 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 Resources for congregations
Finding our way through conflict to reconciliation by Tim Detweiler The mediator’s perspective by Lois Janzen Preheim Contact Us: Susan Janzen susanjanzen@centralplainsmc.org |
Introducing the team
Elizabeth Troyer-Miller works for Central Mediation Center in Kearney and as a trainer for the Nebraska Mediation Association. Elizabeth earned a B.A. in Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies from Goshen College in 2006, and an M.S. in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution from Creighton University in 2011. She is a member of Wood River Mennonite Church in Wood River, Nebraska.
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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. Between 2004 and 2009, he served churches in the Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference. Ted also writes articles for The Mennonite on conflict and communication themes.
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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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