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“Someone pointed out to me that when we train missionaries to go overseas, we take great care to teach them the importance of trying to be sensitive to the host culture. Yet the typical pastor coming out of seminary is often completely insensitive to the culture and expectations of the community that he or she is called to serve. The community today expects seminary graduates to look and act like pastors.”

—John Esau, General Conference Mennonite Church news release, July 21, 1995