Ten years of Cool Summer Learning are being celebrated this Sunday, July 30, at 6:30pm. Come to First Baptist Church, 401 N. Genesee St., Waukegan to be part of the …
No Worship Service on July 30
Please make note that we will not have a worship service at the Civic Center on July 30. Both Anne and Ric are out of town. You may want to …
Cool Learning Experience Needs Our Help!
Barbara Waller and others at the Cool Learning Experience need some help this week and next. They need extra help the last week, 7/31-8/4 because teachers are not available after …
NSMC Church Board Announcements
Dear NSMC Congregation, Please find attached a list of announcements (some of which request your action) coming out of our most recent NSMC Board meeting. The NSMC Board solicits your …
Long Day’s Journey for a Map (Orlando on Friday)
#MennoCon17 has concluded and it was perhaps both a success and something less than a success. There was to my eyes and ears a degree of anxiety at the beginning …
Here Comes the Future (Orlando on Thursday)
Delegates had a very long day of meetings yesterday finishing at almost ten p.m. last night. And here I am before eight a.m. today, back in the Convention Center ready …
Remember the Egret (Wednesday in Orlando)
I purposefully walk over to the Convention Center every morning from my hotel about a half mile away. I welcome the exercise and the chance to breath unfiltered air no …
How to Participate in the 2017 MCUSA Convention
MCUSA Convention 2017 is upon us. Ric is there in Orlando representing NSMC as our pastor, our delegate, and our official eyes and ears for convention. Ric has already been …
If Love is the Verb (Thoughts from Orlando)
Somewhere Wendell Berry says we are not called to live more simply but more complexly: “taking more and more things into account.” The first day of the Orlando Convention certainly …
Looking for God’s “We”
Ah, Mennonites. It is July 4, the annual observance of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But rather than celebrate our freedom from oppressive British overlords with fireworks and cookouts, …
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