By Karen Kreider Yoder Dear Congregation, We are trying to eliminate single-use plastic in our lives, and to that end, a snack team recently prepared the fellowship hour snack as free from single-use plastic as possible. It was quite a challenge, as most of our food is packaged and delivered to us from a distance in single-use…
By Sheri Hostetler Our Lenten series is “Spiritual Resilience in a Time of Chaos.” This is the second sermon of that series. There is a memory etched in my mind from the last week of my Mom’s life. Her church women’s group has come to sing to her, as they have many times before during…
By Sheri Hostetler Our Lenten series is “Spiritual Resilience in a Time of Chaos.” This is the first sermon of that series. 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Joan Chittister is a Benedictine nun, well-known writer and a passionate advocate for justice who has lived in Christian community for more than 60 years. So, she knows community. She…
By Sheri Hostetler Luke 19:1-10 Zacchaeus appears only once in the New Testament, in this story from the Gospel of Luke, but he is an unforgettable character. Too short to see Jesus in any other way, he climbs onto a limb of a big sycamore tree as Jesus walks down the road into Jericho. Zacchaeus…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Luke 4:21-30 I think it was sometime in 2012 I was invited to speak during an evening, student-led, chapel service at the conservative Christian college from which I graduated. This was about 7 years since I had graduated, so the current students didn’t know me, but some of my friends were…
By Chude Allen and Rachel Stoltzfus Chude Allen: On June 9, 1964 I stood in front of the pews of an Episcopal church in a small town in Pennsylvania. I was about to go to Mississippi to be a freedom school teacher as part of what is now called Freedom Summer. I asked the parishioners…
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