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A short congregational meeting was held last Sunday after the worship service. The congregation approved increased project costs for the playground/parking lot construction project which is scheduled to begin soon. The total cost of the project is $124,579. The project has a contingency that construction cannot begin unless 80% of the funds are in hand […]

Berkey, College Mennonite, Assembly, Eighth Street and Faith​ Mennonite churches are jointly sponsoring the play, This will Lead to Dancing, on Friday, May 12, 7:00 p.m. at College Mennonite Church. The play is presented by the critically acclaimed Canadian faith-based drama troupe, Theatre of the Beat. It is about wholeness, belonging and LGBTQ inclusion. Read […]

Dan Schrock will be out of town on vacation from Tuesday, May 16 through Saturday, May 27.

It is time to renew subscriptions to Rejoice and Purpose magazines. Checks should be written out to Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship and placed in the Treasurer’s mailbox (not the offering) by May 28. See prices and descriptions below: Rejoice ($28.30): Nurture your soul through the quarterly devotional magazine Rejoice! Each day’s entry includes a Scripture […]

Everyone is invited to stay for a congregational meal after the nurture hour on Sunday, May 21. For the meal please bring a main dish and a salad or dessert to share as well as your own table service. Guests and college students are warmly invited to stay for the meal.

For a number of years Lowell Nafziger has raised a strawberry patch in our community garden for others to pick. He does not have time this year to devote to a patch. So please plan accordingly when planting your garden.

Berkey’s Spring/Summer worship series, Extending the Table: We All Belong, begins this Sunday. Our vision at Berkey is to: Live Christ’s loving, caring, healing presence in the world. Two primary ways we seek to live this out is through intimacy with God and invitation with other people. Faithfulness to our vision inherently means that we […]

Grace Behind Bars: An Unexpected Path to True Freedom, by Bo & Gari Mitchell.  Surprised by a baffling criminal charge after helping some friends with a business loan, Bo Mitchell, chaplain for the Denver Nuggets, wound up in federal prison. At the same time his wife, Gari, struggled with a sudden brain illness. Facing a […]

The Accidental Missionaries: How a Vacation turned into a Vocation, by Wallace Ohrt. This story takes place in the hometown village of Elijah and Priscillah Metekai starting around 1934 up until the 1980’s. Two extraordinary lay ministers, Denny & Jeanne Grindall, walk into the hearts of the Maasai tribe of Kenya. They have no formal […]