Gospel Fellowship Chapel counts 60 attenders, but the number of lives it has touched over a decade is far greater . . .
Those issues were at the forefront of a gathering of Coming to the Table, a national organization focused on addressing the trauma that remains 150 years after the end of slavery.
“See the contrast between the two halves,” said one of the quilters. “Theirs looks a little more . . . ”
“I lived [in Austin] for a summer, and a bunch of things happened all at once,” Hostetter said.
Conversations across the Mennonite family, he said, “have loaded a lot of rhetorical freight on labels such as ‘conservative’ and ‘evangelical.’ ”
He hopes his history of a group with “conservative” in its name can contribute to current discussion and discernment.
More than five months ago, she quit school when fighting between government and opposition forces began in her family’s Aleppo neighborhood. She and her family hid in the basement as the bombs fell. One day her father, a builder, went out to get some bread and never came home.
“To this day, we have no news of him,” said Damaris, who fled to Lebanon with her mother, aunt, grandfather (who has a heart condition) and four siblings.
It’s the timeline of the Heilsgeschichte, or “salvation history,” from Hesston College’s Biblical Literature course.
“The Heilsgeschichte and this timeline represent a story that we are a part of,” said Ressler, who graduated from Hesston . . .
I studied the mission and values statements of Mennonite Mission Network carefully before agreeing to serve on its board. They sound good to me, even though “mission” has not always been a positive word for me …
