Category Archives: Church

Deep Longings, Deep Hopes from Younger Adults

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Nicholas Detweiler-Stoddard

[The following post is a compilation of feedback from younger Anabaptist adults in Virginia. A version first appeared in the July edition of Connections, a monthly joint publication of Virginia Mennonite Conference and Missions (VMC & VMM)] Eight million missing … Continue reading →

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Belonging Comes First?

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Brett Klingenberg

James and his wife Jeanette (not their real names) live in our rural Mennonite neighborhood.  For the past year, church members have been picking up their three kids and bringing them to Sunday worship and Wednesday night activities, but James … Continue reading →

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What is the Church called to be?

Posted on April 22, 2012 by SaeJin Lee

What is the Church called to be? The final interaction between Jesus and his disciples, in Acts 1, I believe, is a likely blueprint of what the Church is called to be. After Jesus rose from the dead, he reappeared … Continue reading →

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The Church Needs Pagans

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Jeremy Shue

Around three months ago, Mike and Sara (not their real names) stopped in our church office asking for rent assistance. We agreed to “help” them (as discussed in a previous blog entry) and have been developing a relationship with them … Continue reading →

Posted in Baptism, Christian Practices, Church, Church Membership, Communion, Paganism | 3 Comments

The Church Needs the Poor

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Jeremy Shue

Why does helping people have to be so hard? As I sat in my office and evaluated the people across my desk, it was obvious that paying their late rent was not going to actually help them at all. Mike … Continue reading →

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Both/And: Faith in Action among Postmodern Young Adults

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Sherah-Leigh Gerber

Since the very inception of AMP, we’ve been trying to figure out how to define who we are and what we’re about. We are a group of young(ish) adults, but what it means to be a young adult is in … Continue reading →

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Living Holiness: From Excarnational to Incarnational Faith, Part 2

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Nelson Okanya

One Sunday a few months ago our congregation collected clothes, shoes and food and made them available to our church community and the community at large. We also made available about 500 lbs. of food for those who needed food. … Continue reading →

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Living Holiness: From Excarnational to Incarnational Faith

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Nelson Okanya

[This is the first of a three-part series on embodied faith by the new president of Eastern Mennonite Missions, Nelson Okanya.] Part 1 “Christian ethics would be unintelligible if it did not presuppose the existence and recognizability of communities and … Continue reading →

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The Good News of Being Strange

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Joel Shenk

At Toledo Mennonite Church, we are about to embark on a worship series through the Sermon on the Mount that will take us to Advent. In my experience, the Sermon on the Mount is largely viewed in terms of discipleship … Continue reading →

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Renewal from the Outside In?

Posted on September 5, 2011 by David Stutzman

In my last post, I wrote about the need for finding a new Anabaptist narrative. In part, this comes out of the experience that often Mennonites like to reach first for a particular history and particular set of distinctives as … Continue reading →

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