MWR : Articles : April 6, 2009

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Articles : April 6, 2009

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.
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.

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.
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.
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.

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?

Former Bluffton president dies

BLUFFTON, Ohio — Elmer Neufeld, former president of Bluffton University, who also served in leadership roles in the General Conference Mennonite Church and Mennonite Central Committee, died March 30 at Mennonite Memorial Home. He was 83.
Open letter laments ‘exclusion’ over sexuality

More than 100 pastors and others who have ministered in Mennonite Church USA have signed an open letter calling on the church to fully welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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.