Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2008 No Comments »
“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.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
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.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2008 No Comments »
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
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Currently working at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County as Assistant Director of Programs, Alicia Horst, the presenter for Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, is a trained spiritual director and is a member of Spiritual Directors International. Spiritual Direction is an intentional relationship in which the director and the directee spend time listening and speaking movement and presence of the Divine. She spoke to the congregation about “community dinners.”
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Pondering why we take so much delight in each other’s foolishness, Ross Erb, pastor of children, youth and families at Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA., contrasted foolishness and wisdom in a sermon based on Matthew 7:21-29. He defined foolishness as “not thinking through the consequences of our actions,” and wisdom as the development of good judgment acquired with time and experience. The wisdom of which Jesus spoke was going against the conventional wisdom of the culture by putting into action, not words or right theology, an understanding of God’s will for our lives. We are called to live a life of discipline, the bearers of good fruit, the building on rock rather than sand.
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