Our Co-Pastors: Ray Reimer and Rosie Epp
Raymond H. Reimer grew up in central KS, attended Bethel College (KS), and served with Mennonite Central Committee in Bolivia before attending Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary and starting a career of pastoral and educational ministry.
While serving some settled pastorates, he has specialized in interim and transitional ministry assignments, leading a dozen congregations in Oklahoma, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas.
Since earning his doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary in Biblical Studies, he has also taught at Rutgers University, Augustana College (SD), North American Baptist Seminary (now Sioux Falls Seminary), and offered extension courses for Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. He has also worked as a theological librarian.
Ray has also served the wider church by authoring a variety of curriculum and other resources, chairing committees for area conferences and area ministerial alliances, as well as serving on a support committee for a Mennonite Voluntary Service unit.
Rosella Epp grew up on a farm near Henderson, NE, and then attended Goshen College in Indiana and worked as a Program Director at Swan Lake Christian Camp (Viborg, SD) before graduating from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary with a M. Div. in 1983.
Since then Rosie has served in several pastoral positions in Kansas and Pennsylvania. For 14 years before coming to Zion she pastored the Sermon on the Mount Mennonite Church in Sioux Falls, SD.
Rosie also has served on area conference committees, and currently is a board member for Mennonite Central Committee–Central States. Her interest in peace and justice has led her to focus on immigration concerns, including learning tours and working part-time for several years with Lutheran Social Services’ Refugee and Immigration Center in Sioux Falls.
Ray and Rosie have two adult daughters: Rachel is a school social worker in Wichita, and Renee studies at Bethel College, majoring in music education.
Raymond H. Reimer grew up in central KS, attended Bethel College (KS), and served with Mennonite Central Committee in Bolivia before attending Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary and starting a career of pastoral and educational ministry.
While serving some settled pastorates, he has specialized in interim and transitional ministry assignments, leading a dozen congregations in Oklahoma, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas.
Since earning his doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary in Biblical Studies, he has also taught at Rutgers University, Augustana College (SD), North American Baptist Seminary (now Sioux Falls Seminary), and offered extension courses for Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. He has also worked as a theological librarian.
Ray has also served the wider church by authoring a variety of curriculum and other resources, chairing committees for area conferences and area ministerial alliances, as well as serving on a support committee for a Mennonite Voluntary Service unit.
Rosella Epp grew up on a farm near Henderson, NE, and then attended Goshen College in Indiana and worked as a Program Director at Swan Lake Christian Camp (Viborg, SD) before graduating from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary with a M. Div. in 1983.
Since then Rosie has served in several pastoral positions in Kansas and Pennsylvania. For 14 years before coming to Zion she pastored the Sermon on the Mount Mennonite Church in Sioux Falls, SD.
Rosie also has served on area conference committees, and currently is a board member for Mennonite Central Committee–Central States. Her interest in peace and justice has led her to focus on immigration concerns, including learning tours and working part-time for several years with Lutheran Social Services’ Refugee and Immigration Center in Sioux Falls.
Ray and Rosie have two adult daughters: Rachel is a school social worker in Wichita, and Renee studies at Bethel College, majoring in music education.