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From Abbie in Guatemala

Abbie is currently in Guatemala, representing CMC on a 10 day learning tour with other members of Central District Conference congregations. Below is a reflection from her.

I’m thankful for the opportunity to return to Guatemala. Our time here this summer was so fun for our family and I loved attending Spanish classes and taking weekend and day trips. But I left wanting to know more about the history of Guatemala, more about the indigenous groups, more about what role Mennonites have played in the country, as well as US involvement.

This tour has helped fill in...

Saint Oscar

“Each one of you has to be God’s microphone. Each one of you has to be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is someone who has been baptized…Where is your baptism? You are baptized in your professions, in the fields of workers, in the market. Wherever there is someone who has been baptized, that is where the church is. There is a prophet there. Let us not hide the talent that God gave us on the day of our baptism and let us truly live the beauty and responsibility of being a prophetic people.”

“I don’t want to be an anti,...

WDJD?

When I was in college, I found an old party game in the back of a closet. The game was called A Question of Scruples, and the gist of the game was that you had to guess how other people would respond to an ethical dilemma drawn at random from a big stack of cards that contained hundreds of different situations. I don’t think my friends and I ever really followed the rules for gameplay, but throughout that summer we spent hours discussing the different situations that the cards presented and arguing our points for the ones that seemed especially tricky.

The High School Sunday...

One year in: A Sanctuary reflection

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Edith in Sanctuary in our church building. The press continues to tell her story sympathetically, like THIS article in The Guardian, and THIS one in The Dispatch. Edith actually first entered Sanctuary last Labor Day, but was able to briefly return home before entering...

Jewish prayers

Our Jewish friends are fasting today. They are praying for themselves and the world, for us. They are confessing shortcomings, and remembering the Mercy that holds us all.

Today is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, a high point of the Jewish calendar. As they have in past years, the Little Minyan congregation, under the leadership of Rabbi Jessica Shimberg, is worshiping in our building.

They are chanting Hebrew in a Mennonite sanctuary. The Torah scroll, held in the Ark, is elevated in front of the congregation. Behind it hangs the World banner that has focused our...

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