Business Networking with HMS
The local business community is a key partner to HMS in helping students live and learn God’s purposes. The school has been connected to an extensive community of entrepreneurs and business leaders in Lancaster County since its beginning in 1981. For more than four decades local business leaders have invested in HMS and supported students in numerous ways, by:
- Providing need-based scholarships through the PA Tax Credit Program
- Hosting class field trips
- Inviting Venture Program students to shadow and intern at their businesses
- Sharing expertise through show and tell moments in the classroom
- Offering hands-on learning experiences through Enrichment Clusters
The Business Networking Breakfast is an annual event, started in 2012, as a way for HMS to thank business leaders. HMS provides this free event to show appreciation and to serve HMS’s business partners.
This event has concluded for the 24-25 school year. Thanks to our business partners who joined us!
14th Annual Business Networking Breakfast
Thursday, April 10, 2025 – 6:45 – 9:00 am (Optional panel discussion ending at 10:00 am)
Weaverland Anabaptist Faith Community, 210 Weaverland Valley Rd. East Earl, PA 17519
Register Here! This event is free, but RSVP’s are required.
To build on last year’s event and all the positive feedback we received about the format that allowed more time to learn and network together, a speaking team will be presenting this year! You will have the opportunity to choose your topics of interest. PLUS! For those who would like time with all four are invited to join an optional panel discussion after the event from 9:15 – 10:00 am.
The following four presenters are leaders in our local community, specialists in their fields, and just so happen to be ministry partners as well! They will each present a specific angle on Growing in Healthy Leadership.We are excited to welcome the following presenters:
Growing in Healthy Leadership
Session 1: Choose your topic of interest
Option 1: Cheryl Pfautz, Transformations Salon & Spa 
Self Awareness: Unleash your Potential – Self-awareness is the gateway to healthy leadership. Learn how to add value to others, prioritize your own growth, and avoid common pitfalls.
Cheryl Pfautz has been in the beauty industry for over 35 years. She is the owner of Transformations Salon & Spa in Ephrata where they aim to provide a place of serenity, welcoming guests to experience transformation through high quality salon and spa services inspired by caring relationships, creativity and a commitment to excellence. Cheryl is actively involved in several non-profit boards. She also serves as a coach helping others discover their God-given identity and purpose and is passionate about seeing believers embrace their role in the Kingdom.
Cheryl and her husband, Tim, reside in Ephrata and have five children and two granddaughters. She loves to travel and spend time with her family.
Option 2: Floyd Zook, Zook Interiors
Healthy Mindsets and Habits – Learn how leadership-specific stress and loneliness affect our mindsets and how certain habits can bring practical boundaries and personal growth.
Floyd Zook, President and Owner of Zook Interiors, started the company in 1991 from the tailgate of a pickup truck and has seen it grow to be one of the largest commercial metal framing, drywall companies serving the central Pennsylvania region. Zook Interiors aims to serve customers with excellence, make a difference in the industry, and elevate employees to perform their best. Floyd currently serves on several nonprofit and for-profit boards where he enjoys focusing on organizational health and impact.
Floyd and Kim have been married for 28 years and are the parents of three sons, a daughter, a daughter-in-law, and a grandson. Floyd’s hobbies include riding ATVs, horsemanship, eating BBQ, and occasionally playing golf.
Session 2: Choose your topic of interest
Option 1: Keith Brubacher, Brubacher Excavating, Inc.
The Skill of Delegation & Gift of Advisory Boards – Learn how to invite others to help you grow in confronting the truth that, “You can’t do it all yourself” and, “You don’t know it all.”
Keith Brubacher is President and co-owner of Brubacher Excavating where he leads the company’s purpose, strategy, and culture. With over 35 years of construction experience, he ensures Brubacher’s mission, Shaping the World We Live In, drives both projects and relationships. Keith is committed to fostering a thriving team and making a positive impact in the community.
He is married to Ronda and enjoys spending time with family and friends living out his purpose to create places of refreshment where others can gather and experience the presence of God. He enjoys landscaping, woodworking, restoring and creating new life out of old things, as well as ‘diesel therapy’ provided by antique earthmoving machinery, preferably with a straight exhaust pipe!
Option 2: Kent Martin, Signature Custom Cabinetry
Serve Generously…and Grow Abundantly – Learn how generosity and service can bring significant growth and prosperity in unexpected ways.
Kent Martin is the founder and CEO of Signature Custom Cabinetry, Inc., a manufacturer of high-end residential custom cabinetry, distributed nationwide through an independent network of kitchen designers and dealers. Signature’s vision is to build a great company by honoring God and serving people. Kent also serves on several nonprofit and for-profit boards.
He is married to Cindy, they have four married adult children and five grandchildren. In his free time Kent is likely to be found supporting Cindy’s equine therapy work at their farm north of Bowmansville. He also enjoys traveling, hunting and spending time with family.
Hosted by: Weaverland Anabaptist Faith Community
210 Weaverland Valley Road
East Earl, PA 17519
The annual Business Networking Breakfast has, traditionally, been hosted by various businesses over the years in an attempt to showcase our different partners and their workspaces. This year, the breakfast will be hosted by Weaverland Anabaptist Faith Community for a very specific reason: HMS would like to showcase where our high school Venture Program will be housed beginning this fall.
HMS has a special, long-standing relationship with Weaverland as it was a group of parents from this congregation who, in 1981, initiated what is now known as Hinkletown Mennonite School. We are grateful to the Lord for guiding the Weaverland pastoral team to invite HMS to partner with them by offering their space to the high school Venture Program this fall. This partnership will help expand access to a Christ-centered, HMS-distinct education for more students and families.
After the event at 9:00 am, you’re welcome to join an optional tour of where the HMS high school students will be learning this fall!
This event is FREE to guests, but RSVPs are required.
Special thanks to our 2025 HMS Business Networking Breakfast Sponsors who help make this event possible:
Platinum Sponsors:
Gold Sponsors:
Silver Sponsors:
Past HMS Business Networking Events:
2025: Weaverland Anabaptist Faith Community with Keith Brubacher (Brubacher Excavating, Inc.), Kent Martin (Signature Custom Cabinetry),
Cheryl Pfautz (Transformations Salon & Spa) and Floyd Zook (Zook Interiors)
2024: Signature Custom Cabinetry with Nikki Shingle (North Group Consultants)
2023: The Martin Family Barn with Jay McCumber (The Emporia Group)
2022: The Hertzog Homestead with Mark Swartley (Spruce Lake Retreat/Pinebrook)
2021: Woodcrest Retreat with Dr. Nathan Mellor (Strata Leadership)
2020: Hinkletown Mennonite School (in the newly-renovated gymnasium) with Ken Gosnell (CEO Experience)
2019: Martin Tree Service with Steve McClatchy
2018: WJTL’s Landis Hall with Allon Lefever
2017: Sight & Sound Theatres with Roger North (The North Group), Matt Neff (Sight & Sound Theatres) & Tony Smith (Sight & Sound Theatres)
2016: Earth, Turf & Wood Pavilion with Drew Crandall
2015: Four Seasons Produce with Mike Mitchell, The High Center
2014: Shady Maple at Houston Run with John Stahl-Wert
2013: Vertex Mechanical Trackside Room with Jeff Bush of The Washington Update
2012: Clean Energy in HoneyBrook with Sally Derstine & Henry Landes (Delaware Valley Family Business Center) and Keith Brubacher (Brubacher, Inc.)