Mosaic Mennonites

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Javier Marquez

Helping Mosaic Connect with What God Is Doing in Colombia

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by Jennifer Svetlik

Javier Márquez first became connected to Mosaic Mennonite Conference in 2019, through Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC’s) International Volunteer Exchange Program (IVEP), a year-long work and cultural exchange opportunity for young adults. His placement was to work with the Conference communication team and record immigrant stories.  

Upon returning to Bogotá, Colombia after finishing the IVEP program, Márquez stayed connected to Mennonites in the U.S., most notably as a writer for the MC USA MenoTicias digital Spanish-language magazine.  

As Mosaic’s connections in Colombia have grown, most notably with the Anabaptist Community in Medellin becoming a Partner in Mission and the pastor of the hybrid Resplandece community located in Barranquilla, it became clear that having a Mosaic staff person in Colombia would be beneficial.  

In July 2024, Márquez was asked to become the Communications Coordinator for Mosaico Colombia, as a Spanish-language writer and to provide some support and coordination for Mosaic’s partners in Colombia.  

“I’m happy to reconnect directly with Mosaic,” shares Márquez. “I feel that God is doing important things in Colombia, and I believe I can contribute to that work in this role.”  

Márquez looks forward to helping Mosaic connect with what God is doing in Colombia and Latin America, and reconnecting with the Hispanic church in the U.S.  

Javi in front of a favorite coffee shop, the sign reads: OCD: Obsessive Coffee Disorder. 

Growing up in Suacha, a city in the center of Colombia with an indingeous history, Márquez developed a special sensitivity for indigenous communities and intercultural relationships. He now lives in Bogotá, the capital. He has four siblings and his family is large, “like most Latin families,” Márquez says. He is part of the Anabaptist Community of Medellin, and he is proud of his community because they take very seriously the call to be peacemakers. 

Márquez has also taken this call seriously; he refused Colombia’s obligatory military conscription for young men, which led him through a two-year legal process.  
With the support of the Mennonite church in Colombia and the nonprofit organization Justapaz, Márquez finally won his case as a conscientious objector.  

“I believe that the nonviolent path of Jesus goes beyond refusing to be a part of wars and violence but also to work for peace with passion and commitment,” Márquez reflects. 

“Colombia is the land of coffee, salsa and Vallenato music, orchids and emeralds, traditional dishes litke sancocho (soup), aguapanela (hot sugary drink), arepas (cheese and corn flour cake), ajiaco (chicken, potatoes, and corn on the cob) and bandeja paisa (fried pork belly, red beans, plantains, and more),” Márquez says.   

Outside of his role with Mosaic, Márquez works with indigenous communities around Colombia. He roasts his own coffee and sells a little of it. He also has a cat. He loves to dance salsa, read, spend time with his family, and sleep like a bear. 

Jennifer Svetlik

Jennifer is Communication Associate/Editor for Mosaic. She grew up near Houston, TX and spent a decade living in intentional community in Washington DC, before moving to Lansdale, PA with her spouse, Sheldon Good. She is a graduate of the University of Texas and Washington Theological Seminary. She serves as Children’s Faith Formation Director at Salford Mennonite (Harleysville, PA). Jenn has two elementary-school-aged children and loves biking, camping, gardening, and vermicomposting with her family. 

In Jesus’ Sandals: Blessed are the Peacemakers

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Part 2

by Javier Márquez

(The first part of this article is available here.)

We continue the story of our visit to Comunidad Anabautista de Medellín (Anabaptist Community of Medellín), whose pastors Carlos Sánchez and Nidia Montoya carry out a ministry with more than 40 families in Medellín. It has been growing little by little through discipling and baptizing members of the community, who now also work extending the Kingdom of God in their families. 

We headed towards sectors at the other end of the city of Medellín, where three exceptional people awaited us. 

With Andrea and the group of ex-combatants of FARC-EP.
With Andrea and the group of ex-combatants of FARC-EP.

Andrea is a woman who for many years was a commander and nurse in the FARC-EP guerrilla group, an armed group that entered a peace process signed in 2016 with the Colombian government. She met Carlos and Nidia in civilian life and since then has begun a life of discipleship after leaving her previous one as a militiaman. She was recently baptized and is now part of Comunidad Anabautista de Medellín. 

This time she invited us to her house, where her relatives and colleagues who had also fought with the guerrillas, and who had now been involved in the peace process for years, were also waiting for us. 

We shared the word with them, we read about what the Bible says about peacemakers, and we prayed together, but above all it was a time of great listening: we heard their story, the reasons that led them to the guerrillas and the reasons they had for betting for a life in peace despite the immense danger they faced, and the great difficulties to survive. Andrea leads with love as part of Comunidad Anabautista de Medellín. 

Commune 3, Manrique sector. 
Visiting Karen, a community youth leader. 
Portrait of María Victoria, Karen’s mother. 

We also visited Karen Serna and her mother María Victoria Tirado in the Acevedo sector. To get there we took the metro and then a bus. Upon arrival to the area, there is a bridge, and under the bridge is a small theater used by groups to sell drugs. Past this bridge and down the stairs, there is a small stream running through the block. In this small community there is a group of girls whom the Anabaptist Community of Medellín has been accompanying for several years. 

The community seeks to accompany these girls in their growth, advising them, trying to protect them from prostitution networks that tend to be very attractive in contexts of great need, and encouraging them to dream of studying a professional career and make the best possible decisions for their lives. Nidia especially accompanies them in this process. She is a psychologist and has also been working with children and adolescents for many years, so she is the face of Comunidad Anabautista to the young women of the community. 

Among these young women is Karen, who is the oldest. She studies and works every day selling hot dogs near the university until two in the morning. Despite being only 21 years old, she is an example and leader to the rest of the girls. Carlos and Nidia met her many years ago when she was young, and ministered to her in the way she now replicates with her friends. She is a living testimony that Comunidad Anabautista de Medellín forms leaders in the community. 

Members of Anabaptist Community of Medellín gathered in Nidia Montoya’s and Carlos Sánchez’s house.

On Tuesday night, we met at Carlos and Nidia’s house for dinner with people from the community. We sang together, read the word, prayed, and had dinner. It was a special night because, for the first time, Comunidad Anabautista de Medellín fellowshipped with the Mosaic Conference team. 

Prayer for the pastoral team and the ministry of Carlos and Nidia.
Prayer for the pastoral team and the ministry of Carlos and Nidia.

Before leaving Medellín we all prayed for Nidia and Carlos. We shared a time of communion where we all expressed our emotions and thoughts after three days of travel together. We felt like we had put on the sandals of Jesus, and our hearts were touched during each of the visits. In the conversations, we also managed to better understand the many needs and challenges of the church. The most immediate need is for a place to meet with all families, not only to officiate services, but also to have a meeting place for everyone in the community. 

Carlos and Nidia opened the doors of their beautiful home in Medellín to us, shared their food, and set aside their time for Mosaic. It was a time in which we strengthened ties, deepened friendships, and began to share the challenges of this incredible community. 

Javier Márquez

Javier Márquez is an Anabaptist Colombian pacifist and poet and a writer for the MCUSA publication MenoTicias.

In Jesus’ Sandals: Bread and Milk

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Part 1

by Javier Márquez

From April 15 to 17, Mosaic staff members Marco Güete and Noel Santiago and I visited Comunidad Anabautista de Medellín (Anabaptist Community of Medellín), where leaders Carlos Sánchez and Nidia Montoya welcomed us and guided us on a tour to learn about their ministry. 

We have prepared a short report complete with photos so that the Conference and its churches can learn about this wonderful ministry. 

It is called “In Jesus’ Sandals” because our time there was full of tours and visits, allowing us to get to know the immense Colombian city and visit the living rooms of the families that are part of the church—a total of 40 homes. 

Although we did not have time to visit all of them, we managed to meet and talk with many families and have a very special time. 

Ascending by cable car to Las Margaritas, Commune 13, Medellín.
Carlos Sánchez (Anabaptist Community of Medellín), Marco Güete (Mosaic Leadership Minister) and Noel Santiago (Mosaic Leadership Minister) in front of a mural in Las Margaritas.
View of Commune 13 from Las Margaritas. 

First, we took a cable car over the neighborhoods of Medellín’s Commune 13, until we arrived at the Margaritas station in the Robledo sector. There, Carlos asked us to wait while he went to get bread and milk that we would distribute on each of the visits. The agenda noted 14 visits, and the path between the neighborhoods was long and tedious, going up and down stairs, crossing small streams that ran through the mountain, walking through blocks and hills until reaching each of the houses. 

Pastor Carlos carrying bread and milk accompanied by Luz Marina.
Pastor Carlos carrying bread and milk accompanied by Luz Marina.

For each visit, Carlos not only buys bread and milk, but also prepares a biblical reflection that he shares with the families. When he arrives in each sector of the city, he meets with members from the church who live in the area and are community leaders. They help him arrange the visits. 

Whenever we arrived at a house, the residents welcomed us with love and joy. They prepared for the visit by making coffee or fruit juice, and brought out their best chairs, placing them in their small rooms so that we could sit. When there weren’t enough chairs, they improvised seats by placing buckets upside down, so that we could all be seated. 

Each house was very humble, and on each wall were traces of people’s lives: portraits, gifts, souvenirs, paintings and posters, all with meaning. The houses also had display cases with products for sale, sometimes homemade ice cream or clothes for resale. These are families that struggle each day to earn a living. 

At the time of prayer, there are common requests: for someone’s health, a job, for God’s care, and above all, for protection from the gangs and criminal groups. 

Our first visit to the house of one of the members of the Anabapist Community of Medellín.
Our first visit to the house of one of the members of the Anabapist Community of Medellín.
In the house of the local midwife.
In the house of the local midwife.

Carlos’ Biblical reflections are usually deep and full of testimonies. For these visits, Carlos prepared the text of Matthew 5:9: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” 

In each family’s house Carlos has a story, something to remember, and a word of encouragement to share. He knows all the people he visits very well and has known them for a long time, but the community continues to grow because many families invite someone new to participate in the visits. When we leave, Carlos shares the bread and milk with them. 

In this way we went from house to house through the different sectors of the city: from north to south, east to west. Carlos explained to us the context of Medellín, the situation of the city and the specific situations of the families. They are almost always families surrounded by crime, war, hunger, lack of job opportunities, and discrimination. 

A second article will follow, to share more of this incredible experience. 

Javier Márquez

Javier Márquez is an Anabaptist Colombian pacifist and poet and a writer for the MCUSA publication MenoTicias.

New Wine Mennonite Church: A Mosaic Church Plant in Florida

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By Javier Márquez

Members of Iglesia Seguidores de Cristo, a Mosaic church in Sarasota, FL, are embarking on the challenge of starting a new ministry in Bradenton, FL.

Pastor Jimmy Henriquez, a 62-year-old Honduran, arrived with his wife and two children in the US a little over two years ago. Pastor Juan José Rivera, and the followers of Iglesia Seguidores de Cristo have supported the Henriquez family during this time of transition.  

Pastor Jimmy is now leading this new ministry initiative in Bradenton, FL, which begins like almost every new work: with very few things in hand, an empty trunk filled mostly with hopes and dreams, and the image of a large expansive area waiting to be seeded. 

The motivation for Pastor Jimmy to leave his home country, where he had many years of ministerial experience, was, “To take on new ministerial challenges.” And without fail, that is what he is doing. There is no better word to describe the project of a new church than challenging. Since Pastor Jimmy and his family arrived, they have had a mix of challenges, but have continued to be faithful to their call.  

Pastor Jimmy Henriquez and his family.

Although not yet officially birthed, though breathing and crawling, the new ministry already has a name: New Wine Mennonite Church.  Why New Wine? Because, Pastor Jimmy said, “God will do new things.” For now, the church is already seeking a meeting space and have set times of prayer and Bible study to be held on Wednesday nights, which they call Growth Groups. 

“Bradenton is a town of workers and there is a significant Hispanic population,” explained Pastor Jimmy. “It’s where the cars start from in the morning and where they return to in the evening when they come from Sarasota.”  

The mission is to bring the Kingdom of God closer to those who are working with their hands to build a future. Our prayers and best wishes for this immense project that is already in the heart of Jesus. 

Pastor Jimmy Henriquez and his wife.

Fernando Pérez and his Wife Rebeca Torres Building a Mennonite Community in the State of Morelos, Mexico

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In the State of Morelos, Mexico, is the eternal springtime. Throughout the year the sun falls on the heads of all its inhabitants but crossing the meadows and coming down from the mountains comes a breeze that makes living in Morelos a much more bearable activity.

In this place live our friends Fernando Pérez and Rebeca Torres, pastors of many years and who served not long ago in Denver, Colorado, together with the Mennonite Church helping immigrants.

Today they have a mission there and the Mosaic Conference is strengthening ties with them while looking at ways to help and cooperate with this ministry.

For Fernando and Rebeca, it is very important to introduce themselves to the community first as neighbors and create bonds of friendship and trust before going “door to door, street to street” preaching. They say that the most important thing is to be a community, long before CREATING an Anabaptist community. That is why they have also connected with different spheres of neighborhood help.

But in parallel, two meetings for prayer and biblical reflection have also begun, one virtual and the other face-to-face. The virtual community that started in 2020 already brings together 11 people, it is called LOS ANABAPTISTAS DEL CAMINO, and it brings together, above all, brothers, and sisters with a professional profile.

The other community, the face-to-face, is with the residents of the community of Morelos. They meet on Thursdays to pray and read the Bible. It still does not have any official Anabaptist character because for Fernando and Rebeca the most important thing is the exercise of theology more than the discourse… that story is explained in due time.

But the mission does not end there, our brothers are also connected with a center to help Central American migrants in the town of Cuautla and with a group of families who are looking for those who have disappeared due to violence.

“We would like the Mosaic Conference to have in the future an accompaniment represented by volunteers who come to learn about the mission and to help, also from a cultural exchange perspective. It is also important to promote the projects, with the help of some financial resources. What we do with immigrants, for example, is often very limited by the limited capacity for action that we have” explains Fernando Pérez.

Healthy Niños of Honduras Shares Food and Mattresses with Victims of Storms of Dread ETA and IOTA

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This article is translated to English by Andrés Castillo. Original article appears in Mosaic News En Español: Healthy Niños de Honduras Comparte su Comida y Colchones a Afectados Por Las Tormentas de Espanto ETA y IOTA por Javier Marquez

A few months ago I spoke with Herman Sagastume of the project Healthy Niños (“Healthy Children”). Along with getting to know about Healthy Niños, we discussed the Shalom Fund created by Mosaic Conference to deal with money shortages in communities in Honduras with which it works, in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Photo from the official Healthy Niños Facebook Page

A Small Sprout of Light

This time I spoke with him to ask about a similar topic: the situation of these communities after Honduras received two hurricanes, ETA and IOTA, in November. The outlook is not always uplifting; but in the gloom, it has always been possible to see a small sprout of light. 

Storm of Dread

Chaos is inexplicable. First it was ETA, which, coming from the south, reached Honduras with less fury than when it passed through neighboring countries. Either way, it produced losses and grave complications like floods and minor landslides. After the never-ending rain, during the days where people had time to readjust and repair the damages, IOTA arrived as a storm of dread. It painted the landscapes with images of plains where there used to be houses, lakes where there used to be fields of crops, lines of people seeking refuge, roofs of houses floating like canoes, paths crossed by fallen tree trunks, and trees crushed by the weight of the rain or destroyed by the strong winds.

With IOTA, it is estimated that the injury count surpasses 2 million

The northern part of Honduras was the most affected, and what makes this situation worse is that the country depends on the productivity of this area for between some 60-65% of its economy. A few months ago, we narrated the difficulties which, in these countries, took the form of a sanitary crisis during the pandemic due to their shortcomings in the health system and of the distribution of money. In the same way today, complications for this hurricane arise due to the unstable infrastructure that the country possesses. 

Herman explained all of this for the knowledge of all the churches of Mosaic Conference. He has lived many years in the state of Virginia, is Honduran, and his work with Healthy Niños is objectively focused on his country of origin. He tells us that he has never before seen so much destruction in Honduras, including when hurricane Mitch passed through the country in 1998. With IOTA, it is estimated that the number of affected persons surpasses 2 million. 

The poor are the most affected

In Arepo, an area where Healthy Niños does its work with basic education and malnutrition, given that people who live there are too poor and have seen themselves forced to construct their houses in places with high risk, the danger reaches critical levels for the project.

Letter to Julia Where I Speak of the Unimaginable Marta Castillo and her Organic Ministry

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This article is translated to English by Andrés Castillo. Original article appears in Mosaic News En Español: Banda de Cinco Niños Hacen Travesuras, Hablan por Señas, Corren a Escondidas de Ana y Estudian en Computadores Carta a Julia Donde se Habla de la Inimaginable Marta Castillo y su Ministerio Orgánico by Javier Marquez

Dear Julia, 

The cold has not stopped, and you more than anyone knows that the cold creates bad music in my heart. I haven’t forgotten last winter, when we had the fortune of studying together in the city where you were born and that you love more than any other. Where we shared, apart from readings, a teapot to prepare your tea of aromatic plants, and heat up the water for the coffee that I prepared myself, refusing to use the coffee maker. 

As I promised you before leaving for the mission that you’ve given me, I’ll now begin to tell you through this letter of the findings of my surveying, which you have arranged for me during your kind and noble tutoring and discipleship.

After so much effort of long readings, serious reflections, and faithful service, your wise will has understood that the next thing to do is set out on this search of, as you have described it to me, “finding the deep parts of the heart of God in the people I meet and the actions I witness” on this research trip.

It hasn’t been long since I left the comfort of your tutorials, and I now have the joy of being able to tell you of my very first findings. I’ve seen God, in the sense that you’ve incited in me, as the result of a marvelous conversation with a woman who presented a few shards of her life to me—shards which have been more than enough to begin to better understand what “finding the deep parts of the heart of God in the people I meet and the actions I witness” means.

Luego de tanto esfuerzo de lecturas largas, reflexiones serias y servicio fiel, tu sabia voluntad ha entendido que lo siguiente es emprender esta búsqueda de, como bien me lo has descrito, “encontrar lo profundo del corazón de Dios en las personas o en los hechos que conozca en mi viaje de investigación”. 

Her married name is Marta Castillo. She lives in Norristown, a place in Pennsylvania that I wasn’t sure was a small city, or a large town. She has lived in this place for many years, where she married years back and raised two sons, Andrés and Daniel. Her husband is from Cali, Colombia, and his name is Julio. Similar to yours—a calendar name. 

However, she didn’t always live in Norristown. She is the daughter of two missionaries who brought her up and educated her in Indonesia. Already with only these short lines I am giving you a sheet of implicit information. A childhood in Indonesia, a country of islands and spiciness; the wife of a Colombian, people of coffee and music; plus the ingredient of her United States nationality, a people who you know better than I—but I rise to say about them that they are people with an admirable capacity of curiosity, and of a country with much geographical variety. Marta told me that ever since she was a child she always felt like part of a ministerial team, because her parents always involved her and her younger brother in their work of serving. 

She enjoyed this life of service so much that, when she learned that she would have to leave Indonesia, she wanted to travel to any other country that wasn’t her parents’ home country in order to be able to continue with her life of service. This didn’t happen, but as she herself commented in our conversation, “God always has his own plans.”

She studied to be a teacher and after graduating, she volunteered for three years to teach English to children with learning difficulties in Washington, D.C. This gave me an idea of her levels of patience. Afterwards, she was called to lead a youth program at Nueva Vida Norristown New Life (NVNNL—Norristown, PA), with the detail that when she arrived, she would be the only young person to lead in the program. Despite this small inconvenience, she remained at NVNNL, a place where she found an honest community that warmly received everyone, and that held its services in different languages, uniting multiple cultures. There, as you have surely begun to suspect with your shrewdness, she met Julio, who she married barely fourteen months after beginning to date. Love is more simple than what one figures.

At this moment our conversation was momentarily interrupted because the waitress brought us hot drinks and some sweet bread that we had ordered a few minutes before. Just then, I noticed a book that Marta had in her bag: Re-discipling the White Church. She noticed that I had turned my attention to her book, and she briefly told me that it contained reflections of a Christian man who had gone through many intercultural experiences, and in that way was able to talk to his brothers and sisters of white churches about what he learned.

At NVNNL, she helped in each corner of the camp. She carried out each task necessary, and one day was offered to be pastor. It was a calling that built up throughout the years. At first, it was a difficult thing for Julio. He wondered, “What does it mean to be the husband of a pastor?” Marta wanted his support, and after about a year, Julio heard God telling him that he couldn’t be an obstacle in the way of his wife’s calling, but rather the total opposite—her support.

In that way started her pastoral ministry that lasted 10 years—a period in her life where she learned something fundamental to her, the importance of sustaining her job as a pastor on the basis of relationships, walking alongside others, conversing with and accompanying people. When the time came when this stage of her life ended, confirmed by a dream of God, she found herself working with Mosaic conference, supporting three churches as Leadership Minister. Today she continues, and it seems that next year she will work with a total of eight. She is also a member of the intercultural team, a job that doesn’t seem easy. She says that working with people of different nationalities and cultures demands flexibility and humility.

Well, the afternoon passed very rapidly despite the cold. But, before I say goodbye to you I’ll share a few words from Marta that I’ve liked: 

  • “I’ve always liked challenges, my position is to always say yes to God. When one doesn’t feel prepared, or that he or she isn’t capable, God will provide.”
  • “At NVNNL I learned from the latino congregation to pray with more freedom. I feel more comfortable and free praying in Spanish than in my own language.”
  • “That feeling of never being completely prepared, but always ready.”

I hope to write to you soon about a new discovery on this trip. See you soon, Julia. Protect yourself from the cold and respond to me about your impressions of the first results of my mission. Apologies for the lengthy letter, as I know you’ve repeatedly told me that they’re not your favorite.

With care,
The one you only call by the nickname of the Curioso Impertinente (“the Curious Meddler”).

What Can We Do?

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How the Shalom Fund Offered Help in Mexico

By Javier Márquez, Conference Communication Intern

There is a crisis happening in Mexico, due to COVID-19. Pastor Oscar Dominguez shared about the situation many people are facing today in Mexico and the work being done by Anabaptist churches to respond to the famine and economic insecurity that families are experiencing.  

A delighted woman in Mexico receives a food bag during COVID-19. Food was provided by Mennonite Churches in Mexico, Mosaic Mennonite Conference Shalom Funds, and Mennonite Central Committee.

In Mexico, the public data regarding the pandemic is being underreported. Data from private, non-profit institutions are showing much higher numbers than data from the Mexican government. Knowing this, the brothers and sisters of the Conference of Evangelical Anabaptist Mennonite Churches of Mexico (CIEAMM) began to take measures of mutual collaboration with the aim of surviving the imminent period of scarcity that was approaching like a wave on their coast.  

Pastor Oscar said, in addition to a time of challenges, it was a moment that allowed them to discover the talents of different people in the churches that are oriented to mutual care and service.  

The first weeks of the pandemic were a period of transition for the churches in Mexico when each one needed to adapt to new technologies, utilize others’ resources, and face their limitations. 

“If the virus didn’t kill them, hunger would kill them. It was important for the church to ask itself how to help and find ways to do it.” – Pastor Oscar Domínguez

Each church started looking for ways to help out by giving baskets of donated food, contacting food banks, and sharing leftover food with other families. In Pastor Oscar´s church, they coordinated monitoring situations among the members of the congregation to determine needs, as some lost jobs, others had more mouths to feed, and some were single parents.  

  “The important thing was to share with love, to take care of each other, but also to share
with those who have the least.  People who are not even part of our churches but are part
of the community need help. We listen –without   any type of religious proselytizing. It
has always been a matter of genuine generosity, an explicit action of love.” – Pastor Oscar
Dominguez.

Members of Mennonite Churches in Mexico give and receive food during the pandemic. Mosaic Mennonite Conference Shalom Funds were used to support this work.

Pastor Oscar highlights that everything has been maintained, thanks to the generosity of church members and donations. Two of these donations, of great worth, were the donation of the Shalom Fund from Mosaic Mennonite Conference and the donation of food pantries by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). Pastor Oscar told the story of Sister Adela, a senior citizen in a wheelchair, who upon receiving a food pantry, sent him a photo of herself with her grandchildren as a thank you.   

“The eyes of those children when they received the bag full of food … how they looked at and contemplated every little thing in the basket… they said to the grandmother, “We are rich,’”  reported Pastor Oscar, as he himself makes an effort not to cry. 

Pastor Oscar also shared about a blind man for whom Sister Eloida, an elderly woman and widow, prepared a box of food with what little she had in her pantry. She asked the blind man to go collect the food, but on the way his cane broke. Faced with this new challenge, another act of generosity was awakened by the members of the church; they bought him a new cane.