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Kari Heusinkveld (’08) will be inducted into the Elkhart County Sports Hall of Fame at its annual supper and induction ceremony on Saturday, November 15. Tickets for the banquet are $25 and may be purchased at Bethany through November 7. Kari was a three-sport athlete (soccer, basketball, and softball) at Bethany, earning 12 varsity letters […]

Waterford Mennonite Church’s “Benin Bible Institute Planning Group” has delegated Lynda and Rod Hollinger-Janzen to organize a larger group visit to Benin in 2015. This one-time opportunity is an attempt to strengthen our North American congregational connections with BBI. We are planning a 16 day trip, leaving from Chicago on February 4, 2015, and returning […]

This story originally appeared in The Record, Goshen College’s student newspaper. This summer, two students created a Peruvian cookbook, “Los Sabores del Peru,” to sell for charity. Gretchen Geyer, a senior social work major from Parnell, Iowa, went to Peru for Study-Service Term (SST) in the spring of 2014. During the service portion of her […]

What is Peace Club? (1) It’s a gathering for CHILDREN in the PRIMARY and MIDDLER nurture classes AND THEIR PARENTS at Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship. (2) It happens in the Jubilee Hall every other month on the designated SUNDAY FOLLOWING NURTURE TIME. (3) We eat LUNCH together. (4) We have a variety of ACTIVITIES on […]

Conrad Grebel University College is located in Waterloo, Ontario. Grebel is a Mennonite liberal arts college situated on the University of Waterloo campus. Our residence is home to 142 students, studying across all 6 faculties. Waterloo is a large city with approximately 121,000 people living here. Waterloo is home to two universities making our city […]

WINNIPEG, Man. – As conflict has displaced more than 1.5 million people in South Sudan since late December, about 70,000 of them sought refuge at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Awerial County, South Sudan, where they could find people who spoke the same language. The Sudanese Relief and Development Agency (SUDRA) coordinated a […]

The United Way funded Real Men Read (RMR) program will once again be held at all the elementary schools within Goshen Community Schools. Readers will be reading to first, second, and third graders within the school system. The dates for RMR will be the week of October 27th and the week of November 17th. During […]

For the last few years, we’ve been using the Revised Common Lectionary as the basis for our sermons at Berkey. For the next period of time, we plan to use something called the Narrative Lectionary for preaching. What, you might be wondering, is a lectionary? A lectionary is simply a selection of scripture texts for […]

Here at Berkey, sharing time is an important way in which we connect with each other. It is a highly valued part of our congregational life by many people. Over the last number of years, the deacons (Caregiving Commission) have talked about sharing time: what its purpose is, how to improve it, how to best […]