By Pat Plude, with Joanna Lawrence Shenk Mark 7:24-30 Today we depart temporarily from the Ephesians passage we have been using throughout this series, to look at a time when Jesus demonstrates his humanity by speaking to a woman in a particularly snarky way! Using the story of the Syrophonecian woman in the Gospel of…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Excerpts from Ephesians 4 Thank you Diego, for that reading. I wish we would had time to hear the entire chapter of Ephesians 4 because it’s chock full of wisdom for discipleship. Paul was writing to the Ephesians as a prisoner due to his association with Jesus’ revolutionary movement. He was…
By Joanna Shenk Amos 7:7-15 A few weeks ago I was in northern Indiana for a Shenk family reunion with Eric and the kids. It was the first time I had seen some of my extended Shenk family in a couple years. We had a lot of fun playing games in intergenerational groups, like kickball,…
By Outreach Committee FMCSF CORE VALUES and PRACTICES in italics. Can be found on our website here. 2018 OUTREACH COMMITTEE MENNOFESTO (STRATEGIES & TACTICS) Found below each of the core values and practices. First Mennonite Church of San Francisco strongly identifies with its rich Anabaptist heritage, believing that we are here to help bring about the realm…
By FMCSF Youth Group Note: Our church’s youth group rewrote the Gospel stories for each Sunday of Lent and then presented them as children’s stories during worship. Palm Sunday, March 25 Mark 11:1-11 This is a story that a guy named Mark wrote about Jesus. He wrote the story in a way that highlighted the…
By FMCSF Youth Group Note: Our church’s youth group rewrote the Gospel stories for each Sunday of Lent and then presented them as children’s stories during worship. Fifth Sunday of Lent, March 18 Luke 19:1-10 (Jesus and Zacchaeus) While traveling with his poor people’s movement, Jesus and his friends, had a protest march in Manhattan,…
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