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[By: Natasha Weisenbeck | July 8, 2011 | Comments Off]
Sharing Secrets to Find Healing 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 youth arena. “There were some things I needed to get (...)
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[By: Grace Parker | July 8, 2011 | Comments Off]
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 of God, and organizing your life in a way that God can (...)
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[By: Kate Stoltzfus | July 8, 2011 | Comments Off]
Fashion Show Winners Turn Trash into Treasure 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 shapes” with a tea-length accordion skirt made from (...)
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[By: Sara Alvarez | July 8, 2011 | One Comment]
Witmers Put the Reunion in the Convention 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. “I am so thankful that they put this kind of thing as a priority,” said Jim Witmer, the grandfather. The oldest Witmer (...)
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[By: Ben Sutter and Kate Friesen | July 8, 2011 | Comments Off]
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, “What does it mean to be an ambassador? And how do we do (...)
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