Comments on: Retiring seminary professor Dorothy Jean Weaver on ‘I Always Knew That I Would Be a Teacher’

By: bev. henkel

bev. henkel — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 18:47:08 +0000

Dorothy Jean – It was wonderful to read ‘your life’ sharing. Thank you and Blessings as your live changes and all that will be in the next chapter.

By: Dan Seifert

Dan Seifert — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 10:48:09 +0000

Thank you, Dorthy Jean, for your well prepared, challenging and faithful teaching of Biblical Studies. You will be remembered as guiding us in the rich experience and process of opening and hearing the living Word — safe passages on the journey.

By: Rachel Yoder

Rachel Yoder — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 23:18:58 +0000

You told your story so well! The tapestry of your life has been interwoven with intensely colorful strands, with golden threads throughout. As your freshman roommate, I could tell way back in 1968, that you were a capable academic! So thankful you discovered your calling and loved it so much. You may be retiring, but I won’t believe for a minute that you are done yet!

By: Thomas Mboya Olung'a, Kenya East Africa

Thomas Mboya Olung'a, Kenya East Africa — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:40:17 +0000

Thanks a lot professor for sharing part of the road to teaching. I learned a lot from the way you presented New Testament teachings at Eastern Mennonite Seminary When I was a seminary student. I hope, as you retire, but not tired, you will have some classes to teach at the seminary. You have a wealth of abundant knowledge that will be the fountain of hope to others as well. I wish you the best the retirement will bring forth to you.

By: J. Daryl Byler

J. Daryl Byler — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 01:53:03 +0000

What a powerful story, Dorothy Jean!

By: Jay B. Landis

Jay B. Landis — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:23:45 +0000

Dorothy Jean,
You were a newborn baby when I first learned about you. Your mother had recently been widowed, and I remember meeting her on College Avenue by the chapel and feeling the suffering that the C. K. Lehman family and the whole Park View community had just recently experienced. I was a freshman but I knew about the Chester and Myra hospitality because earlier my parents had stayed at their place on a visit to EMS. The Melvin Weaver tragedy had touched everybody: people I would come to know in my life, your teacher mother my classmate and colleague, your student sisters, my Bible Doc and Ethics professor, and finally YOU. How your family all enriched my life!

How glad I am that we have been friends a long time! I’m an EMHS/EMC/91��Ƶ retiree. How dare you retire already? I think when you graduated from EMHS I might have written–as I often autographed the Ember senior pics–“I shall follow your career with interest.” I have done it. God continue to bless your life.

By: Dorothy Zehr

Dorothy Zehr — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:14:16 +0000

A beautiful and inspiring narrative, Dorothy Jean. Thanks! My first “knowing” you came in high school when your mother and I were friends and she had these three lovely daughters. Then I have followed you with various re-connecting over the years. Thanks for always being authentic you whom God loves and lives through.

By: Gloria Lehman

Gloria Lehman — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:42:19 +0000

This is an incredible story, Dorothy Jean. Thank you for sharing it with us. Truly God has guided you, and gifted you, with a life of abundance in abilities, and in a deep enjoyment of sharing with others. May God richly bless your retirement years.

By: Tim Swartzendruber

Tim Swartzendruber — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:14:44 +0000

I’ve never had the privilege of getting to know you, Dorothy Jean, so I’m delighted to learn some of your story here. As a French minor myself, I love your reflections on language learning. Thank you for being an intellectual and spiritual mentor to so many students at EMS over the decades!

By: Jeanette Bontrager

Jeanette Bontrager — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:12:08 +0000

This is beautifully written, Dorothy Jean. There is much here that I never knew, but I do remember our summer in Quebec! May the good humor of God continue to show you new ways to enjoy life!
Jeanette Noll Bontrager

By: Marge Maust

Marge Maust — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:24:17 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing your story, Dorothy Jean! It was encouraging and inspiring to me to read of your tenacious desire to be open to the leading of the Spirit and your courage to follow that leading! I could identify with so much of your story!

By: Linda L Alley

Linda L Alley — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:38:51 +0000

Dorothy Jean, I am so pleased to be able to read your presentation. I was sick in bed with the flu when you gave it, but in the reading your authentic voice comes through! May God richly bless the adventures and generative time of all the years that remain to you.
Linda Alley

By: Nancy V. Lee

Nancy V. Lee — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 02:31:15 +0000

The word “integrity” best describes for me Dorothy Jean’s teaching of Scripture. In her classes one gained the skills not to impose one’s own viewpoints on Scripture but to listen to it and see it, itself, and to meet the real people there. I know this even though I was never enrolled in EMS. Instead, she and other EMS professors welcomed into their classes when I was asked to assist a seminary student who was a Chinese pastor. I know this, also, because I have been reading her mind-opening book, THE IRONY OF POWER: THE POLITICS OF GOD WITHIN MATTHEW’S NARRATIVE.

By: Kathie Kurtz

Kathie Kurtz — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:18:11 +0000

Always the story-teller, Dorothy Jean has told about her life with good grace and no attempt to gloss over difficult personal experiences. A thoughtful reflection on a deeply passionate, well-lived life.