Meet David Nickel, a member of the board of directors with Mennonite Mission Network. Each Mission Network board member brings their unique voice and perspective to the leadership team, and each one is passionate about Mission Network’s guiding vision: to lead, mobilize and equip the church to participate in holistic witness to Jesus Christ in a broken world.
David Nickel was raised in the Mennonite congregations of Mountain Lake, Minnesota. He graduated from Hesston College in 1999, Goshen College in 2002, and Duke Divinity School in 2010. He served in Ukraine with Mennonite Central Committee from 2004-2007.
Nickel volunteered in prisons in Ukraine, North Carolina, and Nebraska for 15 years and served four years as a community-funded prison chaplain from 2011-2015.
Nickel has been the pastor at First Mennonite Church in Lincoln, Nebraska since 2015.