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Articles : April 6, 2009

Finances, baptisms

Senior pastor Rick Eshbaugh began a sermon series the first of the year to coincide with the Financial Peace University course that the congregation is presently involved in.
Getting to know one another

Getting to know one another in fellowship is an essential part of building church community, and so we at GMC have several ongoing social groups open to anyone interested.

The Living One, in present tense

Jesus is alive! At Easter we celebrate and proclaim that Jesus of Nazareth was not just a prophet of the past but the Christ who lives today.

Growth, evangelism, energy in India

CHHATTISGARH, India — In 1900, one family each from the General Conference Mennonite Church and Mennonite Church denominational mission programs landed in India.
Venture gives second chances

WINNIPEG, Man. — Sam’s Place, a non-profit used-book store, café and performing arts venue, opened last month in a newly renovated building in the Elmwood area of Winnipeg.
Prisoners become ministers

HESSTON, Kan. — John Thomas, once a drug user and now a pastor, vowed he would not be the same man when he got out of prison.

Warming fallacy

I am writing about the article, “The 350 Target“, which reports on Bill McKibben speaking at Goshen (Ind.) College concerning the seriousness of global warming. His target is to lower the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million. He stated that the level was 270 ppm before the Industrial Revolution. How does he or anyone else know what the level was before the Industrial Revolution?

‘Raining rice’ in Philly

PHILADELPHIA — Mennonites are witnessing the “multiplication of loaves and fish” as they extend a hand to members and neighbors with limited incomes.
40-year missionary loved India’s needy

GOSHEN, Ind. — Even as a mission administrator in charge of a leprosy hospital in India, John A. Friesen was a pastor at heart, remembered for his love for the beggars and lepers of his village and for the growth of the church.
Scholarship to honor EMU student

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Eastern Mennonite University hopes to build on the legacy of musician and 2008 nursing graduate Matthew Garber through the newly established Matthew Garber Endowed Scholarship Fund.