Messiah Village is a non-profit Continuing Care Retirement Community located on a beautiful 80-acre campus in Mechanicsburg, PA. It offers a spectrum of services and accommodations for older adults and their families, including maintenance-free residential living cottages and apartments, enhanced living with personal care, nursing care, memory support, and community services. Messiah Village is a ministry that responsibly enhances the lives of older adults with Christ-like love.
About Our Bloggers:
Emerson Lesher has been President for 15 years at Messiah Village. Prior to that he was a gero-psychologist for 15 years. He is interested in how organizations work effectively, Bob Dylan, Garrison Keillor, reading, dining out, and travel. He is also the grounds keeper at the family farm.
Nate Shields has been employed at Messiah Village for more than a dozen years and is still trying to figure out what he wants to be when he grows up. He is married to Linda and lives along the Conodoguinet Creek in Camp Hill.
Kristen Heisey is the VP of Marketing & Communication at Messiah Village. She lives in a home of very creative people with a budding artist, an emerging inventor, and her witty web designer husband. She loves art, the idea of fixing up old homes, architecture, bike riding on rail trails, and working for a trailblazing organization!
Karin Bisbee is a daughter, wife, mom, and fundraiser who loves words and working at Messiah Village.
Mary McAllister is a retired mathematics teacher who works with Messiah Village’s Golden Mouse Computer Club and the Resident Welcome Committee here at Messiah Village. Mary and her husband, Robert, have been residents of Messiah Village since 2005.
Robert Rickert is a current Messiah Village resident and retired Engineer having worked at Amp Inc. for 38 years. He enjoys carving, reading and skypeing with his family.
Camille Decker is the Marketing intern at Messiah Village for the summer of 2011. She is a rising senior majoring in Public Relations at Susquehanna University. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming, reading, and traveling.
Devon Zehr has been at the Village for 3 years in the Construction Services Department. He finds joy in turning a cottage or apartment into a home for new residents and hearing the stories they tell about their past. Blessed with a wonderful wife and two young girls, Devon enjoys spending time with them in the great outdoors whenever possible. His two other passions in life are disaster relief service projects and convincing Bob Hess not to retire!
Susan Stauffer is the Director of the Pathways Institute for Lifelong Learning®, a program she worked to develop that provides adults age 60 and older with opportunities for continued learning, enrichment, and service. Susan has been with Messiah Village since December 2005. She enjoys hiking, reading, and spending time in the outdoors.
Ken Markley is a retired Psychologist and former Executive Director of United Cerebral Palsy. He and his wife Susan moved to Messiah Village in 2009 where they are continuing their 22 year old business selling antique clocks.
Carl Ginder is the Vice President of Strategic Development at Messiah Village. Carl is a gadget guy. If you swing by his office, he’ll show you some new peice of technology or program that has his interest. When he’s not at work, you can try to find him at his cabin in north central pa, on a mission trip, or traveling to the middle east to visit with family.
Past Contributors
Esther Gregg is a Messiah Village resident living on Willow Way with her husband and two cats. They are both retired and have so far enjoyed living here. Esther volunteers regularly in the gift shop, the Village Center’s library, during the Fall Festival and clothing sales, and works at the reception desk in the Commons. She enjoys writing, reading, drawing and taking walks.
Chris Wnuk is the Director of Information Technology at Messiah Village. Though she makes her living in technology, Chris’s first loves are words and humor. She has written and performed comedy in the area and in Washington, DC, and has completed & published her first book. She lives in Harrisburg with her husband and cat, both of whom provide great source material.
Aly Felton has concluded her internship with Messiah Village. She has graduated from Messiah College and is now making her way out into the wide world of marketing. She may drop in from time to time to tell a story of conquering the world.
