Understanding the Middle East
Eastern Mennonite University in Lancaster will be offering a field trip to Washington, D.C. entitled “Understanding the Middle East” on Saturday, February 21, 2009. The trip includes a visit to the US Holocaust Museum, a conversation on the Middle East at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, and observation of late afternoon prayers at the Islamic Center. The bus leaves the Lancaster area at 7 a.m. and will return by 10 p.m. A packed lunch and Lebanese family style dinner will also be provided. The cost is $120 per person; $200 per two family members. To join the trip, contact Gloria Kniss at gloria.kniss@emu.edu or call 717-397-5190. For more information contact David Miron at mirond@verizon.net or call 717-569-1305.
Chartering a bus for Columbus 09?
Local charter bus agencies are ready for your business! Make your reservations soon with the company of your choice as the high number of persons traveling from southeastern Pennsylvania in particular may make buses hard to find closer to the summer gathering dates. Don’t have enough persons to fill a bus? If you are interested in connecting with other churches who might be traveling, Franconia Conference is willing to broker those relationships and connections. If you’d like to travel by bus, but can’t fill your own, contact Melissa Landis at Franconia Conference at mlandis@mosaicmennonites.org. Registrations for Columbus have begun in full force with numbers expected to exceed last year’s gathering at San Jose by the hundreds (maybe thousands). Register and make your travel plans soon!
The opinions expressed in articles posted on Mosaic’s website are those of the author and may not reflect the official policy of Mosaic Conference. Mosaic is a large conference, crossing ethnicities, geographies, generations, theologies, and politics. Each person can only speak for themselves; no one can represent “the conference.” May God give us the grace to hear what the Spirit is speaking to us through people with whom we disagree and the humility and courage to love one another even when those disagreements can’t be bridged.