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“Are you feeling groovy?!” bellowed brothers Keith Lyndaker Schlabach and Brent Lyndaker at the start of their seminar, “Got game? Developing and playing peace games: A PeaceGrooves gathering.”
They had to repeat the question several times until a satisfactorily energetic “Yes!” echoed through the audience... [Read More]
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As about 180 children loaded onto four buses bound for the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, they got in the spirit with the popular chorus “We’re going to the zoo, zoo, zoo… How about you, you, you?!”
Carol Grieser, director of the children’s convention, was anticipating the zoo trip as much as the students: “I ... [Read More]
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While worship gatherings, delegate meetings and seminars are taking place each morning, about 300 children in the upper C-section of the convention center are drawing from the Bible in their own way.
The children’s convention is divided into “family groups,” using names from the Bible such as “John” or “... [Read More]
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Dozens of young people might have felt like shaking the dust off their feet as they walked away from Room C113 shortly before a Bible seminar on Thursday.
They were not welcome at the seminar presented by Michelle Hershberger — but for justifiable reasons. Coordinators had to send them away because of fire m... [Read More]
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“How on earth am I supposed to sell 900 handwoven Peruvian bracelets?”
This is a question I have been struggling with for the past two months, when I received a delivery consisting of 700 bracelets from the Peru Spring 2009 Goshen College SST group. “I still have 200 from my last batch!” I thought, nearly appa... [Read More]
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With plenty of crafts, story time and laughter – and, in some cases, crying – the children’s convention includes 314 registered infants, preschoolers and children grades K-5. Among the energetic faces, it could be easy not to note that there are five sets of twins aged 7 to 9.
Hannah and Tyler Hedderick, age... [Read More]
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“Where do you have kitchen table conversations other than the kitchen table?”
Sitting in a chair at the Mennonite Women USA exhibit hall booth, I drew this question from a bowl as a camera stood a few feet ahead anticipating my answer.
The current theme for Mennonite Women USA is “Kitchen Table Theology.” Patr... [Read More]
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A roller skating party, Fabulous Fifties Family Night, Big 10 football parking, perennial sales and homemade tamales, potato chips and candy–youth groups are known for creativity when it comes to raising funds to cover convention costs.
And they need to be, as getting to convention can be expensive. First comes the early registration fee: $50. Then there are meal tickets: $188. Transportation ca...
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“O come, Thou Father of the poor/O come, Thou source of all our stores/come, fill our hearts with love.”
Like the invitation in that warm-sounding Taizé chant—though it is most often sung in Latin—Sunday’s Taizé service welcomes all conventiongoers to come and be filled. Though convention is a week of unique, inspiring services for adult and youth, the Taizé-style experien...
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