Phil Bergey pbergey@mosaicmennonites.org This is the second installment on trends from a presentation I made in my final State of the Conference report to the Conference Board in January. Unlike […]
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Life in the Woods: sitting, thinking, wrestling, and discovering
Jordan Good philip.good@emu.edu My life’s been a little different in the past few months. And it’s kind of weird saying that now — that it’s different. But it really is. […]
Examples of love and curiosity from those living out an everyday child-like faith
Felicia Moore fmoore@mosaicmennonites.org New Beginnings Community Church is in its third year of holding a children’s summer program. Members of the congregation have noticed the lack of activities for the […]
Obliged to live the call: Considering why we met together at San Jose
Karisa Martin, Ambler karisa@att.net As I am writing this article and reflecting on the Mennonite Youth Convention in San Jose, I am turning a small polished rock over and over […]
Viva el llamado – Moving into an audacious California dream? Realizing the possibilities of our future
Steve Kriss skriss@mosaicmennonites.org We had a good time together in California, the 6,000 or so Mennonites who gathered at San Jose 2007. Youth sang hymns late into the night on […]
Arrival
Tim Moyer Timoyer@gmail.com Today we finally arrived in Israel. We experienced God’s favor and traveling mercy. There were a lot of things that could have slowed us down but didn’t. […]
Lessons from the road: From Cambodia to Minneapolis and back to Bally
Krista Ehst kehst@mosaicmennonites.org As our rental mini-van approached the Twin Cities, Steve Kriss turned down the radio and raised his voice a few notches so those of us curled up […]
A scouting report: Looking into a mestizo Mennonite present and future
I came to work with Franconia Conference with the understanding that I was going to be scouting into the future and working into it. That role for these last 18 […]
When immigrants (whether legal or not) become our sisters, brothers and friends
I’m working with the fourth immigration case that has taken me to an office in a building overlooking the mall between the National Constitution Museum and Independence Hall. On my […]
Getting beyond tooting our own horn
I honked to stop the war again tonight as I was driving with the rush hour traffic on Lincoln Drive. Horns were echoing up and down the drive, reverberating like […]
Just another day in Paradise (or Philadelphia)?
Last week, after students returned to clean out their desks and men from the community dismantled everything from the ballfield backstops to the roadside fence, an early morning crew with […]