ADNet Associates are volunteers who work in partnership with ADNet on one or more projects consistent with ADNet’s mission.

Associates at this time are:

• Kathy Dickson, Field Associate
• Sue Cassel, Field Associate
• Lora Carter Nafziger, Field Associate
• Jason Greig, Student Assosciate

Associate projects normally involve study and/or outreach around a particular topic or concern, but may evolve into an ongoing ministry of speaking and/or consultation based on expertise or experience.

Associate Application Form

The Associate program was approved by the Executive Committee of ADNet's Board of Directors at its February 24-25, 2006 meeting in Goshen.  Christine Guth was approved to be the first ADNet Associate working the areas of depression and autism spectrum disorders.

In evaluating the program in October 2007, the Board approved an expansion of the program in two ways:

• Provide for a category of Associates that would essentially make them a part of the ongoing staff of ADNet. Under this category, Christine Guth was named as a Program Associate. In December 2010 she was named ADNet's Program Director.
• Create a Student Associate Program to encourage college and seminary students across the country to pursue one-year projects that would be helpful to both the student's career path as well as ADNet.

A category for Field Associates was created in 2010, and the first two Field Associates were appointed. Field Associates are longer-term volunteers working in the context of their home communities and congregations on projects related to the inclusion of persons with disabilities in churches.

Past Associates:

• Kaely Barwick, Student Associate (Goshen College, Goshen, IN)
• Vanessa Yoder, Student Associate (Geneva College, Pennsylvania)
• Devon Lengacher, Student Associate (Eastern Mennonite Seminary).
• Christy Weems, Student Associate (Bethel College, Kansas)
• Rebecca Fast, Learning Disabilities, August 2007-May 2008

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