After 11 years of serving with Mennonite Church Canada as Executive Minister, Christian Formation, Dave Bergen is retiring at the end of August 2015. “This is the culmination of several years of discernment, thinking about what I yet want to do while I still have the energy, and when the right moment would be,” Bergen stated. It wasn’t an easy decision to make. Bergen said that while he would like to help shape the future of Mennonite Church Canada as it transitions through the work of the Future Directions Task Force, he would also like to pursue other opportunities. Before he assumed his current role in Formation, Bergen spent 17 years as a pastor in Mennonite Church Manitoba congregations and several years as director at Camp Assiniboia. —Mennonite Church Canada
