Overview
Ruth Brunk Stoltzfus improvised a remarkable career as a churchwoman, family speaker and business leader. Feeling a call to support Christian families, she began a nationally syndicated radio program. Ruth eventually became the first woman to be ordained by the Virginia Conference of the Mennonite Church. This memoir brings together journal entries and her own reflections on her own family, church appearances, syndicated newspaper ads, and pastoral work. Responding to strong family and conference encouragement and overcoming severe prohibitions, Stoltzfus spent her life in ministry to God and the church.
About the Author
Ruth Brunk Stoltzfus was born in 1915 to Mennonite parents who deeply impressed on their nine children the importance of service to the church. She has been a mentor to many younger women and men and has provided a broader, less traditional model for church leadership.
Synopsis
Ruth Brunk Stoltzfus improvised a remarkable career as a churchwoman, family speaker and business leader. Feeling a call to support Christian families, she began a nationally syndicated radio program. Ruth eventually became the first woman to be ordained by the Virginia Conference of the Mennonite Church. This memoir brings together journal entries and her own reflections on her own family, church appearances, syndicated newspaper ads, and pastoral work. Responding to strong family and conference encouragement and overcoming severe prohibitions, Stoltzfus spent her life in ministry to God and the church.
About the Author
Ruth Brunk Stoltzfus was born in 1915 to Mennonite parents who deeply impressed on their nine children the importance of service to the church. She has been a mentor to many younger women and men and has provided a broader, less traditional model for church leadership.
Myron S. Augsburger
"Here is a ministry that only a woman of faith could share and a ministry born with conviction amidst the limitations of much conservative Christian thought.