Park View Mennonite Church sermons

“The apostle Paul wasn’t writing only to children and youth,” Ross Erb, pastor of children, youth and families at Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA, in his Sunday sermon, “he was writing to all of us when he said: ‘be transformed by the renewing of your minds.’ As this happens, some of what we know may need to be re-evaluated. At times it may feel like everything is shifting, but it is at those times that we need to go back to the truth, to go back to Jesus, to center ourselves in our faith community, to test out our relation to the world in the context of our faith community. The service was the annual back-to-school event when children and young people, reaching certain age milestones, were given Bibles and Bible instruction books to acquaint them early with what is in the scriptures.

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Building good relationships between people of different religions does not mean setting aside essential elements of what we believe to be true, but rather living out clearly and explicitly God’s special regard for outsiders and foreigners, proclaimed Lawrence Yoder, missiology professor at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, VA and a member of Park View Mennonite Church. Basing his remarks on the Gospel story as found in Matt. 15:21-28 where the Canaanite woman taught Jesus to look beyond the “lost sheep of Israel” as his mission, Yoder exclaimed: “Just imagine, what will happen when more and more Christians get into the flow of what God is doing and saying!” Yoder, spending time in Indonesia bringing people together for mutual understanding and respect, gave a personal account of consultations and teaching experiences at the Sunan Kaligaga Islamic State University.

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In her sermon on Matt. 14:22-33 about Peter walking on water, Barbara Moyer Lehman, associate pastor at Park View Mennonite Church, insisted that Jesus takes our many “ghosts” of fear by holding out his hand, speaking to us and giving us the confidence that our faith will carry us through the storm and winds.

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The funeral of Albert N. Keim–author, historian, scholar, administrator, farmer– was held on July 1, 2008, at Park View Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia. This podcast contains the entire 90-minute service, including all the music. To listen individually to the eulogy, tributes, and meditation, see adjoining podcast postings. Notice there are links to download the mp3 files for later listening. To read a full obituary and news release from Eastern Mennonite University, see http://www.emu.edu/news/index.php/1705

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This is the eulogy (life narrative) of Al Keim, given by daughter Melody.

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This podcast is three tributes given at the funeral of Al Keim– by John Lapp, James Bomberger, and Mary Sprunger.

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This podcast is the meditation given at Al Keim’s funeral, by pastor Phil Kniss, titled “Look to the rock.”

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“Nothing is lost on the breath of God,” Barbara Moyer Lehman, associate pastor at Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA., told her parishioners as she related story after story of persons giving a “cup of cold” water in Christ’s name. No act of kindness and mercy is too small as Christians act as channels of grave in our troubled world, she said. We are wells of renewal for our neighbors.

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As guest preacher, Ron Copeland, pastor of the Early Church in Harrisonburg, VA, tells the parishioners how to find security in the household of Christ. As the next step in his journey as an unconventional community leader, Ron, as its founder, turned his attention from Our Community Place, a non-profit organization at the north end of town, to forming a spiritual center for the lost souls of society–the homeless, the drug and alcohol addicted, the racially marginalized. He was also the former owner of the Little Grill and founder of the Free Food for All Soup Kitchen.

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Ugandan Angelina Atyam has a powerful story of forgiveness and reconciliation with enemies through the power of prayer and the work of God in her life. Angelina is a midwife by training, and mother of six children, one of which was kidnapped and held for nearly 8 years by military rebels in Northern Uganda.  Angelina shares about her ministry with the Concerned Parents Association (CPA) during the past 12 years, which has taken her to the United Nations, the European Parliament, the Vatican, and even the Ophra Winfrey Show. Angelina also shares briefly about the CPA’s partnership with MCC Uganda in working for trauma healing for former kidnapped children and their families

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