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Worship Leaders
Ben Bolanos: San Francisco, Cal.
Benjamin Bolanos is an active member of First Mennonite Church of San Francisco and has served on the Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference board. By trade, he is a high school history teacher in Palo Alto, CA. Previously to working in Palo Alto, he and several other teachers and administrators started a high school primarily serving the surrounding Latino population.
He graduated from Eastern Mennonite University with a degree in History and did graduate work in Latin American history at Bowling Green State. He and his wife, Amy, live in San Francisco along with their new baby girl, Dahlia Maria. Benjamin is an incurable surfer now, a bona fide beach bum, who occasionally surfs the dawn patrol shift. He also loves the theater, writing, reading nonfiction, teaching, telling entertaining stories, and most of all, making his wife and daughter laugh at the same time.


Rachel Gerber: Denver, Col.
Rachel S. Gerber, a resident of the Mile High City (Denver, CO), is the Associate Pastor of Faith Formation at First Mennonite Church. In addition to working at the church, Rachel is mom to 5 week old, Owen, and wife of 7 years to Shawn. In her spare time she likes to walk, write, watch movies, travel, and converse over a good cup of coffee.
She is a graduate of both Goshen College and Eastern Mennonite Seminary. If interested in knowing more about where Rachel has been and what else has occupied her time, she has worked as a youth pastor at College Mennonite Church in Goshen, taught 5th grade as an elementary school teacher in Virginia, and has co-written 2 books for Faith & Life Press.

Jeremy Kempf: Goshen, Ind.
Jeremy Kempf is currently the Recruitment Coordinator at Mennonite Mission Network. He and his wife Erin reside in Goshen, IN. In his limited spare time he enjoys playing basketball, spending time with friends, watching Seinfeld, creating music in his recording studio, and talking about Nebraska, his state of origin (especially the football team!)
Jeremy graduated from Hesston College and Greenville College with a degree in Contemporary Christian Music and has spent several years as lead guitarist in the Christian rock/worship band thirstborne.