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Building Partnerships and Belonging Across Mosaic
Across the board’s listening sessions, participants celebrated new partnerships, raised questions about belonging and discernment, and shared hopes for how Mosaic can grow.
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Pressing On – Congregational Profile: Mennonite Bible Fellowship
We want to remain faithful for those who do reach out for companionship, support, and prayer. We feel that being present and available is our best witness.
Jesus is the Center
Instead of programs and rules, the focus should be on building relationships so that people can walk alongside and support each other in faith.
Justice, Mercy, Humility
Authentic servanthood leadership is something to aspire to, but it takes perseverance, practice and resilience.
Looking to the Future of Conference Related Ministries
Each CRM has a unique ministry, each has a community, each has responded to a need … For the new Conference, this is a valued resource.
Holy Leisure
Throughout the whole summer, I thoroughly enjoyed discovering the many different forms of Sabbath, intertwining personal reflection, social interaction, and play.
The Folly of “I Don’t Need You”
There are good, faithful, honest, brilliant, Bible-believing, God-honoring, Jesus-loving, Spirit-filled people in other parts of the Body as well, in other churches, other conferences, other denominations. And we need them.
WITNESS: Conference Assembly 2019
As Eastern District and Franconia Conferences approach this historic moment of reconciliation, we remember that we are part of a storyline of faith that has stretched out for thousands of years before us and will continue for years to come.
A Catalyst for Transformation
She sees this work as integral to discipleship, “when people begin to think really deeply about their own identities like they’ve never had to before; this is the first step to transformation.”
Bridge Fatigue
This mix of energy and exhaustion is part of what it means to be a bridge person or to be doing intercultural bridge work.
How to Pray for our New Churches
It might sound trite, but I believe our prayers are the most powerful and effective offering we can make on behalf of the new expressions of Church that God is aligning with us in Franconia Mennonite Conference.
Standing in the Gap at the Border and at Home
Questions and concern around immigration have become increasingly important for members of Franconia Conference, which has seen a increase in immigrant congregations over the past decade.
Open Arms and Hearts to the Migrants
Open arms and hearts to migrants is part of Christian discipleship.
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