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As booth keepers in the exhibit hall started packing up, staff in the youth worship hall prepared for the loudest event of the convention. When Stellar Kart took the stage, their music could be heard outside of the convention center.
Stellar Kart writes punk music with a positive message.
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“We are coming, we are coming.”
So begins the poem that Brenda Matthews shared with the youth at the final worship service on Friday night.
For Matthews, a poet, storyteller and preacher from Chicago, this was a return engagement. She was also a speaker at Charlotte 2005, San Jose 2007 and Columbus (...)[Read More]
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Liz Core, a reporter for mPress, interviewed conventiongoers on Friday and returned with these snapshots.
Rosemarie Matsuda, of Pittsburgh, has lived through two house fires, a world war and “an entire city burning down in front of me.” Growing up in a city outside of Berlin during World War II, Matsuda’s German (...)
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The staff members of mPress aren’t the only ones diligently reporting on Pittsburgh 2011. The local news media have also been eager to investigate what it means to have more than 6,000 Mennonites flock to the city.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the city’s dominant newspaper, featured several articles on the (...)
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Delegates spent the majority of their time in assembly on Friday afternoon in table discussion and open-mic sharing.
After short reports on the Conversation Room and the theme for the Phoenix convention in 2013, delegates spent the greater part of the session discussing the long-term vision of Mennonite Church USA and (...)
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After a mother and her daughter shared their struggle with addictions and imperfections, the youth who were present at the worship on Thursday were invited to write their own hidden truths on slips of paper.
On Friday morning before worship, these anonymous “Post Secrets” were on display on bulletin boards by the (...)[Read More]
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Delegates on Friday confronted the challenge of how church members should be God’s stewards of the earth and of each other.
Beryl Jantzi, the director of stewardship education at Everence, opened the session by defining stewardship.
Stewardship is “everything you do after you say you believe, a journey to the heart (...)
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Plastic bags, cardboard and food wrappers are not typical materials found on a runway, but at Eastern Mennonite University’s trash fashion show on Thursday night, they were everywhere.
Haley Behnfeldt’s cardboard dress was named the winner by EMU. Her dress was composed of a cardboard corset in “scale (...)[Read More]
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The Witmers make the Mennonite USA Convention a family event. All of Jim and Rachel Witmer’s four kids and their families made it to Pittsburgh, totaling 22 Witmers in attendence.
The family attended convention together for the first time this year.
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In the midst of the pounding rain on Friday morning, Ted Swartz urged youth to “stop talking and just listen.” Youth responded by giving full attention to Jeniffer Dake and her message.
Jeniffer Dake, a storyteller and founding member of Rocketown youth center in Nashville, Tenn., challenged youth to question, (...)
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