Karen Kreider Yoder wrote this history moment on Mennonite Voluntary Service and what it has meant to FMCSF. She presented it during our 50th anniversary year on October 5, 2025. When we celebrate our congregation’s first 50 years, we are also celebrating 50 years of Mennonite Voluntary Service (MVS) in San Francisco. The MVS unit’s…
With assistance from Karen Kreider Yoder, Sharon Heath wrote this History Moment on Radical Hospitality. Our congregation has engaged in what I’m calling “Radical Hospitality” or “Radical Welcome” for the past 40-plus years. Being Pride Sunday, much of my reflection will focus on our calling as a Welcoming Congregation. But that’s by no means all…
In this First Mennonite’s 50th Anniversary year, we’re presenting several short “History Moments.” This is the fifth in the series by Karen Kreider Yoder. By 2010, we had settled into our new, light-filled worship space at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav. Our congregation was growing! Guests visited and stayed. Young families arrived. Our Mennonite Voluntary Service workers (MVSers)…
By Karen Kreider Yoder By 2000, we had been without a full-time pastor for 3 years. During the last year of the 1990s, Lee Loots served as our interim pastor. Our storms had not ceased. We longed for a full-time, long-term pastor. We found our pastor from within. More accurately, Sheri found her calling among…
In this, First Mennonite’s 50th Anniversary Year, we’re presenting a dozen short “History Moments.” The first, from 1975 to 1980 described how we began as a house church in Haight Ashbury. In the second, from 1980-1988, we heard how our congregation matured with leadership from within. This is the third in the series by Karen Kreider…
In First Mennonite Church of San Francisco’s 50th Anniversary Year, we will give a dozen short “History Moments” throughout the year. This is the second in that series. Compiled and written by Karen Kreider Yoder. Our little San Francisco Mennonite Fellowship grew from being a five-year-old into an adolescent from 1980 to 1988. Just as a…
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