This piece originally appeared in the Franconia Conference publication, Intersectings. The Friday following the presidential election, leaders from Franconia Conference’s south Philadelphia churches asked for representatives
Months before her 60th birthday, Karen Kreider Yoder sat with family around the table discussing how to celebrate. “I wanted to do something that wasn’t just for me,” she said. “I wanted to do something that was a peacemaking, community-building act.”
