Celebration of Church Life 2020~Update! A followup Message from LMC With careful consideration, the four major addresses planned for Celebration of Church Life will be recorded, posted on Youtube, and links supplied on the LMC Website and Facebook page by April 7, 2020. This will include the two addresses by Glenn Kauffman, Keith Weaver’s State of LMC, and the Youth Address by Keith Nyce. The presentations will be recorded, not… Read More
Multiplication Possibilities A number of regions across LMC report a high interest in working at church multiplication. Church on the Other Side continues to work with congregations in the Weaverland, Weaverland NE, Baltimore-Washington, and Elizabethtown districts. Despite Omar Guzman’s immigration issues, he continues to lead Church on the Other Side from Honduras. He has participated in numerous multiplication conversations by ZOOM, Skype, and other communications options. Multiplication… Read More
Church on the Other Side Omar Guzman continues to be denied access to a Visa to return to the USA. Currently, he continues to do ministry among the Garifuna churches and other Mennonite groups in Honduras and Belize. He has traveled twice to Spain preparing for a Garifuna church plant there. Please pray for the resolution of this problem. The Guzman family is stretched as they work with family in… Read More
AD HOC BISHOP GROUP The Bishop Board appointed a small group of bishops to work with the EMM board on developing and deepening the relationship between EMM and LMC. Formally, the governance issues related to bylaws have found good resolution. Continued work occurs around the next President search, as Gerry Keener will only serve for a two-year interim term. Other issues will involve greater integration of mission/vision, philosophy of… Read More
Multiplication Possibilities A number of regions across LMC report a high interest in working at church multiplication. Church on the Other Side continues to work with congregations in the Weaverland, Weaverland NE, Baltimore-Washington, and Elizabethtown districts. Despite Omar Guzman’s immigration issues, he continues to lead Church on the Other Side from Honduras. He has participated in numerous multiplication conversations by ZOOM, Skype, and other communications options. Multiplication… Read More
Joint Youth Group Meeting New Danville District (Pennsylvania) and Yellow Creek Mennonite Church (Indiana) youth groups met together in early July at New Danville Mennonite Church. The multi-day event included relationship-building activities, worship, Bible study, water balloons, and campfires. Matthew Coredella Bontrager served as a resource speaker for the group. Of course, there was lots of food like hotdogs and Smores.
Mennonite Heritage Experience First Mennonite Church, Berne, IN brought a group of youth to Pennsylvania for their five-day, biannual Mennonite heritage experience in June. The group spent a day visiting historic sites in Philadelphia to place Mennonite migration within the broader American colonial story. Then they visited the 1719 Herr House, the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society exhibit, and the LMC office. Additional visits were made to Mennonite Central… Read More
LMC traveled to Ethiopia A group from LMC traveled to Ethiopia for a 10 day trip on August 27th to September 6th to the Meserete Kristos College. The purpose of the trip is to represent the spiritual fathers Holy Spirit used to birth MKC and to establish a relationship in our generation that honors that legacy. To learn from MKC leaders what God will impart to the group for… Read More
Annual Storytelling Night Hear stories from Keith Weaver and Linda Gehman Peachey on September 9, at 7:00 pm. Weaver is a bishop and moderator of LMC. Peachey is a freelance writer who has worked for Mennonite Central Committee on women’s concerns and as co-director of Peace and Justice Ministries. Unable to make it in person? Click on the REGISTER button to watch the LIVE STREAM on the night… Read More