Forest health, our health
One of my favorite Ohio-based organizations is the Arc of Appalachia. My introduction to the Arc came during a 2010 tree education course that rocked my world, bringing the forest to life in a way I’d never experienced. To borrow from this upcoming Sunday’s passage about Moses and the burning…
Daily Connector | Sixty-five and counting | Paul Swartzentruber
Jan and I were married on August 20, 1955, at 7:30 p.m., at the Orrville (Ohio) Mennonite Church on one of the hottest days of the summer. Even now, sixty-five years later, I can still feel my sweat-soaked body in my navy-blue wool suit standing in front of the congregation…
Daily Connector | Thinking Baseball: And Now the Offering… | Tim Stried
I have enjoyed reading the CMC Daily Connectors and getting to know many of you a little better. No matter how COVID-19 has or hasn’t affected our lives, each of us lost things, gained things, and learned new things about ourselves and others. Beginning Thursday, March 12, one of the…
Daily Connector | Legos | David Emch
I’ve started seeing most of my clients again in person. I still have a few that are online, but it’s so nice to be back in my office – with all of my toys. Earlier this summer I took a continuing ed class on how to incorporate Legos into a…
“These are people!”
I was asked to submit a blog entry for Mennonite Church USA’s Learn, Pray, Join initiative focused on immigrant justice. This was my submission: ——————— “These are people!” This was a favorite phrase of my friend Ruben Castilla Herrera. He had heard it from his mentor Cesar Chavez with whom…