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[By: Ana Loucks | July 2, 2009 | 2 Comments ]
Testifying Under the Bridge by the Red Roof Inn If you’ve been to a convention before, you may feel like you know what to expect. There’s the big city life, tons of Mennonites, so many familiar faces and those faces you see on the street. There’s always amazing speakers, great friends, crazy sponsors and lots of encounters. So many things you know to expe...
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[By: Rachel Halder | July 2, 2009 | One Comment ]
Alleviating Women From Poverty: Connecting Convention 2009 to My Own Passion “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...
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[By: Duane Stoltzfus | June 28, 2009 | No Comment ]
Here’s to a Newsroom Where More Than 2 or 3 Gather A recent cartoon in The New Yorker shows a woman standing by a table with scissors in hand. A newspaper is spread out before her with rectangular holes here and there, and she’s taking the scissors to the paper yet again. She pauses briefly to explain things to her husband, who looks perplexed there with coffee cup ...
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