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Daily Connector | Want you all back | Laurie Zimmerman

It’s 8:00 AM, July 9, the day I’m actually writing this and I’m re-remembering the dream I awakened to just after 4:00 this morning.

In my dream I was walking around the outside of the storefront location of Columbus Mennonite Church. It was our second storefront since we’d left the Neil Avenue location near OSU and both of the storefront locations were in an old-fashioned outdoor shopping center, where the store’s expansive glass fronts a poorly-lit open, but weather-sheltered mallway.

The fluorescent-lighted 60’ x 60...

Daily Connector | Summertime fun | Jonathan Lehman

I climbed up the tree bark.

This is a swamp. It’s same as Swamp Thing, Ghost Whisperer.

Mario and Jon

Daily Connector | Hanging Out | Dan Halterman

I enjoyed first hammock time at my new home recently. The house I’ve lived in for just over a year is still becoming, is not yet, “home.” Regular hammock time might shift my emotional balance more toward that. My old Paraguay hammock is still sturdy enough and is a delightful backyard “hang.” It was in regular use at our former home, where the backyard featured two hang positions, both centered on the old, sturdy metal swing set frame between two suitable trees.

The hammock’s last use was in the Middler Sunday School room in January (when...

“Mennonite peacemaking”

This morning I was asked to share with an interfaith group on “A Mennonite Perspective on Peacemaking.” The broader context was thinking together about divesting from the current police/incarceration system and investing in other forms of community well-being. So, open question, What does Mennonite peacemaking have to contribute to the conversation?

The task reminded me of one of the official Open Questions our CMC Leadership Team named for our year back in March, which went like this: As an Anabaptist community, how do we live faithfully within a contentious political...

Daily Connector | Kitty Heaven | Mary Yoder

I have greatly enjoyed reading The Connector this summer and want you to know how much I appreciate hearing about your lives. Sometimes I read them to family members who stop by to visit with my mom, who is medically fragile. In early spring I didn’t read all of them, and am trying to catch up. I don’t mind if these repeat at some point.

Lately I’ve been thinking about pets, souls, and heaven. I lost my beloved 13-year-old kitty last Friday to kidney disease. Molly was a 15-pound female Tiger with white paws, a roaring purr and much self-...

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