Mission Commission: Personal Items Drive
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During the month of June, the Mission Commission is sponsoring a Personal Items Drive for the Elkhart County Women’s Shelter. The Elkhart County Women’s Shelter is the only domestic violence shelter in Elkhart County. The shelter is open 24 hours a day, 365 days per year to provide crisis intervention and safe shelter for victims […]
Pre-convention Prayer Retreat
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Pastors, delegates and others interested in MCUSA are invited to a pre-convention prayer retreat on Saturday, June 6, 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at Waterford Mennonite Church. The purpose of the retreat is to recognize that we are all part of God’s church and because of that assurance, we can lay our fear and anxiety […]
‘Seeking the gifts of others as if our lives depended on it’
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Event looks to interchurch relations for models for intra-church relations Anton Flores-Maisonet, founding member of the Alterna Community in LaGrange, Ga., speaks at an event held April 11 at North Goshen (Ind.) Mennonite Church and sponsored by Mennonite Church USA’s Interchurch Relations Reference Group. “I have bet my life,” he said, “that Jesus is reconciling […]
LaCasa Help-A-House Project
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Please consider joining our MYF to help with LaCasa’s Help-A-House project on Saturday, May 9. Through the Help-A-House program LaCasa organizes volunteers to repair the homes and improve neighborhoods in Goshen. Last year our group from Berkey helped clean out a house that LaCasa was preparing to remodel. The day begins with a pancake breakfast served by the Goshen Exchange club from 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. […]
Summer Bible School
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Everyone should have received forms in their mailboxes for participating in Bible School this summer. The dates are June 8-11 from 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. each day. All forms are due back to Deb Williams by May 3. There are forms for registering children age 3 – grade 6. There are also many volunteer opportunities […]
Church and Berkey Ave. Spring Cleanup Projects
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The Mission Commission has scheduled a spring cleanup at the church on Wednesday May 6th. Pizza and drinks will be provided for those coming to work at 5:30 pm with the work beginning around 6:00 p.m. One group will work on the church grounds while another group will pick up debris along Berkey Avenue. Cleaning supplies […]
Constituency Leaders Council (CLC) Report
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Shannon Dycus, Gene Hartman and Dan Miller represented Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference when the Constituency Leaders Council of MCUSA met March 26-28 in Wichita Kansas. The theme verse for the meeting was Romans 12:2: Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and […]
To Hunger and Thirst, But not for Crocodile
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At a recent family gathering my brother and I, slightly bored and looking for amusement, surfed the internet for exotic cuts of meat that we joked we might cook for a family meal. Armadillo, anyone? Puffin soaked in fresh goat’s milk? Zebra leg roast at $100 a pound? Idle diversions aside, this incident shows how […]
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