9:40 AM Prayer Time • 10:00 AM Worship Service • 11:00 AM Fellowship • 9:00 & 11:00 AM Adult  Sunday School

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Staff and Board

Pastoral Staff

Pastor: Steve Norton

Steve Norton, our Lead Pastor, started at Union Center on November 17, 2025.

Steve joined AMBS in September 2019 as Program Assistant for the Thriving in Ministry grant program of the Church Leadership Center (CLC), which houses the seminary’s continuing education program. In January 2023, he started to serve the CLC as Assistant Director of the Journey Missional Leadership Development Program and Church Leadership Center Program Coordinator. During his time at AMBS, Steve provided administrative support for multiple CLC offerings, including Ministry Reflection Circles, Transition to Leadership, Online Short Courses and the annual Pastors & Leaders conference. He launched and managed the Invite AMBS program, in which seminary faculty and staff serve as presenters or consultants on topics of interest for congregations and organizations.

From 1994 to 2008, he and his spouse, Sharon Brugger Norton, served with Eastern Mennonite Missions as church planters in Germany, also launching a short-term mission program in partnership with the Theological Seminary Bienenberg in Liestal, Switzerland. After moving to Goshen, he was Pastor of Outreach for eight years for Goshen City Church of the Brethren, a congregation of the Northern Indiana District of the Church of the Brethren. He then helped establish the Rise ‘n Roll Bakery in Elkhart, serving as General Manager for two years.

Steve holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from Goshen College and a Graduate Certificate in Public Management from Indiana University South Bend. He is currently enrolled in AMBS’s Graduate Certificate in Theological Studies program. Steve and his wife Sharon have 3 adult children, one granddaughter and another on the way. His hobbies are making pizza, jogging, traveling abroad, reading and being with friends.

Church Board 2026