Invite a clubhouse storyteller to speak to your community or church group about the journey of recovery and their vision for a Clubhouse for Elkhart County.

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Drawing on their own stories of illness and recovery, Christine Guth and Jonathan Gingerich tell about efforts underway to establish a Clubhouse  (a specialized community center) in Elkhart County that will support recovery for people living with serious mental illness, through friendship, meaningful work, and building on gifts and abilities. 

Christine Guth

Christine Guth serves the Elkhart County Clubhouse Project as chair of the Steering Committee and Working Group. She is a 2007 graduate of Associate Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart and a licensed minister in the Mennonite church. She works as a writer and speaker for Anabaptist Disabilities Network, a faith-based disability advocacy organization. Since 2006 she has provided leadership for the Asperger-Autism Parent Group of Goshen. Christine is a 2009 graduate of the Partners in Policymaking Academy of the Indiana Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities.

Jonathan Gingerich serves the Elkhart County Clubhouse Project as storyteller and sharer of the vision, along with serving on the Steering Committee and Board Development committee. He is a twenty-year resident of Elkhart County and a 2005 graduate of Goshen High School, where he was a National Merit Finalist. He has served as a facilitator for NAMI Connection, a program of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. He hopes to begin studies at Indiana University in the fall of 2010.