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Supporters Profile - Nancy and Marlin Riegsecker After spending many years making a home for her husband, Marlin, and their four children, Nancy returned to college to complete her undergraduate degree from Pitzer College in Claremont, CA. Later, Nancy added several courses of graduate work at Fuller Seminary. During these years of study and following, Nancy has moved from looking for simple answers to living more comfortably with the questions about being a woman in this society. There have been three compelling questions Nancy has faced. First, what are the common concerns that face women? Second, what are the issues that encourage men and women to explore ways to construct a more profound understanding of living in relationship? Third, how can these concerns be enriched by Christian experience? Nancy was encouraged to live more comfortably with some of these kinds of questions through learning from solid scholarship on gender issues, conversations and support of women and men with the same concerns, self-reflection guided by her faith and the faithful support of her husband and family. Nancy has served as a trustee on the Messiah College Board of Trustees, Ten Thousand Villages Board, on corporate boards, and other non-profit boards. Recently, Nancy has been working with 4D Concepts, an importing company. Marlin has supported Nancy in seeking answers to her questions as a Christian woman and in their common pursuit of integrating their faith experience with their lives. He served as CEO of Royal Creations, Inc. a furniture manufacturing company. He has served on the West Coast Mennonite Mental Health Board, the West Coast MCC (Mennonite Central Committee) Board and on the MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development Association) Board. It was while traveling with the MEDA Board in Nicaragua and South America, and hearing the stories of women from many parts of the world that they observed the even more difficult problems women face in developing their female identities and supporting their families in so many other parts of the world. Now retired, Nancy and Marlin gain much joy as grandparents and giving assistance to an active house church with ties to both the BIC and Mennonite denominations and together working for peace and social justice. |
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