2026 State of the Conference address| Central District Conference Annual Meeting | June 26 | Harrisonburg, VA Joel Miller, Pastor of Columbus Mennonite Church, CDC Board President My introduction to CDC came 20 years ago this summer.  I was fresh out of seminary, AMBS.  That was when the A stood…

Tomorrow ten of us from CMC will be driving down to Harrisonburg, Virginia for the Central District Conference annual meeting.  We’re one of 45 congregations in the conference, ranging from St. Paul, Minnesota to Miami, Florida.  CDC also now has six “provisional members,” new communities of faith exploring affiliation with…

Deer and Canada Geese aren’t exactly favorites of the animal world, at least not in urban settings where ecological imbalances enable their proliferation.  We’ve lost quite a few young trees and too-many-to-count landscaping plants to deer.  Geese have never met a sidewalk they didn’t poop on.  But lately I’ve found…

I’ve been thinking recently about baptism.  But not by myself.  This month Lawrence N (this Sunday) and Sarah M (June 21st at the outdoor service at Highbanks) will be baptized, and we’ve been meeting to discuss baptismal vows, scripture, and baptism stories.  A couple of those stories have come from…

For the last half year, we’ve had two guests in our church refuge apartment space – an Algerian woman named Tafsout, and Nafi, a Liberian woman.  Both came to the US through legal channels but struggled to get established financially.  Ever since Edith Espinal lived in sanctuary in that apartment…