tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34173809321236825772024-03-05T00:56:34.507-08:00Neu BruderthalerA contemporary exploration of traditional Mennonite and Anabaptist values, history and philosophy. Blog comprises notebook fragments from various research projects and discussions.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417380932123682577.post-53520242966126801772013-07-19T23:27:00.000-07:002013-07-19T23:39:52.267-07:00Central Plains Conference - Northern Cheyenne Reservation, MT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Central Plains Annual Meeting 2013</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Ashland, Montana</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;">June 20-23, 2013</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Guided by the Spirit:</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;"> </span><b style="line-height: 1.5;">Knowing God's Love</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Black Elk<span style="color: #660000;"> <i>(note: Black Elk is Oglala Sioux, not Northern Cheyenne)</i></span></span></blockquote>
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"<b>Our strong view of Scripture calls us to do our best </b></div>
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<b>work in discerning the Scriptures together. Together </b></div>
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<b>as Christ’s body, “We seek to understand and interpret </b></div>
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<b>Scripture in harmony with Jesus Christ as we are </b></div>
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<b>led by the Holy Spirit in the church.” May you be </b></div>
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<b>encouraged to engage the Scripture with God’s people </b></div>
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<b>in meaningful ways as you listen for God’s Word that </b></div>
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<b>guides your ministry and shapes our living.</b> " </div>
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<tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><i>"Indian Tacos !!!" courtesy Stan Harder</i></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i> For Indian or Navajo Tacos, top with traditional taco toppings -- or top with any traditional Mennonite or American waffle-type toppings, or best of all... butter and a little honey or cinnamon-sugar.</i></span></b></span></span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Terry LeBlanc</b></span> </span></i></h2>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> Terry is Mi’kmaq /Acadian, from Listuguj First Nation and Campbellton,
NB, Canada. He and his wife Bev are in their 38th year of marriage.
Together, they have three adult children: twin daughters and, a son.<span style="font: 11px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font: 11px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> Terry has served in full-time Native ministry since 1979, has been ordained since 1983. <br /><br /> Following
almost 9 years as Aboriginal Programs manager with World Vision Canada
Terry took up a position first as National Programs then Executive
Director with My People International – a holistic, training-focused
ministry program with and for Native North Americans. This is his
current position. </span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span></i><b><span style="color: #660000;">“<i>The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes
within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their
oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at
the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center
is really everywhere, it is within each of us</i>.”
- </span></b><span style="color: #660000;">Black Elk</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Story of Deer Medicine Rocks</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">LAME DEER — <i>For 1,000 years or more, native peoples have etched their
histories and prophecies on the sandstone faces of Deer Medicine Rocks
near what is now Lame Deer.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> Barely visible bighorn sheep, warriors on horseback and a
grizzly bear roam the soft, sheer faces of the rock outcrop just off the
Northern Cheyenne Reservation.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> And on an early June day 136 years ago, a Sioux artist
carved a vision that had come to Hunkpapa medicine man Sitting Bull
after a torturous Sundance ceremony. In the dream, soldiers with
“grasshopper” legs fell from the sky into the Indian camp. The soldiers
had no ears.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> This vision is believed to have foretold victory at Little Bighorn about three weeks later on June 25, 1876.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">On Monday, descendants of the Sioux and Cheyenne warriors
who defeated Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry gathered at
Deer Medicine Rocks to celebrate the sacred site’s new status as a
National Historic Landmark.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> David Harrington, acting superintendent at nearby Little
Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, told about 200 people gathered
for the ceremony that Deer Medicine Rocks’ new status ranked it beside
the Alamo, Mount Vernon and the Empire State Building as one of the
nation’s most important historic sites.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> Sitting Bull, leader of the largest coalition of warriors
ever gathered on the Northern Plains, was drawn to Deer Medicine Rocks
by a vision, said Philip Whiteman of the Oglala Lakota.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> “He came to the Cheyenne and asked where the rock was he saw
in his vision,” said the cultural leader from the Pine Ridge
Reservation in South Dakota.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> “In his vision he saw a whirlwind with this blue lightning strike and these petroglyphs,” he said.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> A lightning strike on the rocks did leave a long, blue scar
that bisected the image of a deer. The image is thought to be where the
rocks got their name.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> Not long after Sitting Bull’s Sundance, Custer’s troops
traveled through on their way to the Little Bighorn. Custer and his
Arikara scouts saw images left in the camp and on the rocks. The scouts
grew uneasy, understanding that the Sioux and Cheyenne believed that
they would win a great victory.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> Whiteman said that through all the oppression of native
peoples since the time of the reservations, Sitting Bull’s vision for
his people propelled them forward.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> “We are going to be leaders and teachers once again,” he said. “Our ancestors spoke of this time -- a cleansing.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"> Phyllis Young, a Hunkpapa who sits on the Standing Rock
Reservation Council, said “America is ready for us. America is ready for
our old ways.”</span></i></div>
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Read more:<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.3;"><span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/sioux-cheyenne-celebrate-new-historic-landmark/article_d993a22f-7add-53ce-8bf2-5b0fcce4a57e.html" target="_blank"> Thackaray, Lorna, "Sioux, Cheyenne Celebrate Historic New Landmark," Billings Gazette, 11 June, 2012</a></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<i><b> Terry Shue asks... </b></i></div>
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our land would explore and find these texts that would </div>
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not only reflect who they are, but could also shape the </div>
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generations yet to come? What would it be like if we </div>
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could share those texts and find out which ones are </div>
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the most important for us as Mennonite Church USA </div>
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congregations?” <i>Across the Fence, Spring 2013</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>courtesy Rev. Joetta Schlabach</i></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><b>“While I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw;<br />For
I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit,
and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one
being....And I saw that it was holy” -- Black Elk</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><i>"Walking the Path" courtesy Rev. Joetta Schlabach</i></td></tr>
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<tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><i>courtesy Rev. Joetta Schlabach</i></td></tr>
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<tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><i>Psalms 91 v 1-2 </i> <i>courtesy Elliot Tapaha</i></td></tr>
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</span>Faith Mennonite’s Tuesday discussion in preparation for the Sunday
scriptural readings was meant to cover Matthew 25, the passage about not
worrying after employment, food, shelter and basic needs that will be provided
for by faith in Christ’s abundant provision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rather, we were ambushed and sidetracked by the emotions of the George
Zimmerman murder-acquittal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span>To be fair, the Mennonite church, like most Church denominations in
America, is split between politically progressive and politically conservative believers,
churches, conferences and sects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many
Mennonite Christians celebrated the justice of Zimmerman’s acquittal, while
others, including myself, saw a travesty against legal justice and social
justice reflective of an inherently unjust socio-political system (some would
go as far as calling it a “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">machine</i>”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span>One discussion participant was dealing with question regarding seeing
the thousands of demonstrators in downtown Minneapolis… and with questions as
to perceived silences by the church in these matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“To what extent should the church be
liturgical versus pertinent in its approach to sermon prep?” was his
question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Note that the pastor’s
response was that a good liturgist should be able to draw a connection between
the two… “There is ALWAYS a connection!” she stated.)</span></div>
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</span>Setting Matthew 25 aside, we delved in a discussion of justice… the word
being bandied about by both the “winners” and the “losers” in Friday’s verdict.</span></div>
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</span>In a sense, we were noting that there are different senses of “Justice”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the one hand, Zimmerman’s supporters were
celebrating a victory for what they perceived to be the legal justice of the
trial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zimmerman was acquitted of
charges leveled against him by an over-zealous, politicized prosecution in a
trial that upheld principles of an individual’s protection from such injustice,
and the justice of gun-ownership and the innate American right to self-defence
were upheld as general principles of law in Florida.</span></div>
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</span>At the same time, those supporting the Martin family in their search for
justice saw the inequalities of access to basic rights and the same legal,
social and economic privileges being enjoyed by Zimmerman, as being denied to
Martin, who was now dead… a victim as much of an inequitable, unjust social and
legal system as much as of Zimmerman’s gun.</span></div>
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</span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I mean, the prosecution’s
argument was that Trayvon ‘weaponized’ the sidewalk … and that somehow the fact
that Martin was on the sidewalk justified Zimmerman’s use of lethal force in a
gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that any Black man
standing on any sidewalk can legitimately be seen as a threat … how do we even
deal with this concept?”</i> the conversational instigator presented.</span></div>
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</span>Returning to questions of justice, another brought forward… “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Questions about justice often hinge on
definitions… I have often had trouble correlating the Old Testament’s sense of
prophetic justice (end time judgment, God’s judgments against nations) against
Christ’s sense of justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus’ sense
of justice seemed to be less concerned with fault and judgment than with healing
and repairing injustice.”</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Well wouldn’t that be the definition of
restorative justice?” </span></i><span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">others
responded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yes, but coming home from the
health club, I found myself in the midst of the demonstrations downtown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is that was being demanded?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In all of the sloganeering and passion, I
would see a focus on the Old Testament sense of justice – a need for vengeance,
a call for blood and reparations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is
this our social definition of justice today?”</i></span></div>
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</span>We were unable to relate the two ideas apart from noting that both
Zimmerman and Martin had had things taken away by the “event”… things that
could never be replaced or repaired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Martin was dead and Zimmerman would never regain a sense of true
security – ‘just’ demands that things be put right were impossible in that
nothing will bring back Martin’s life or provide future security to Zimmerman, now
a modern-day Cain (Notably, one <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Huffington
Post</i> columnist went as far as to welcome Zimmerman into the Black world – a
world wherein he would always feel like he was being watched, and where he
would always feel like there was a giant target (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mark of Cain</i>) painted on his back).</span></div>
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</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I think that D (a member of the
congregation), summed it up in her sermonette last Sunday when she shared that
in searching for a verbal response to the acquittal and its impact on society,
all she could say was that ‘Violence begets violence,’” </i>the pastor
summarized.</span></div>
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</span>But… where did that leave us?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That sounds good, but honestly, it leaves me
still feeling hungry for justice… with the acquittal, there was no recognition
at all that what Zimmerman did was wrong or that an innocent teenage is now
dead… nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a complete
acquittal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am still hungry and I don’t
even know what to do with these emotions of righteous rage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes me mad to live in a society that
just writes off a life like that,” </i>I responded.</span></div>
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</span>At pastor’s suggestion, we poured over an email from Cynthia Villegas,
whose brother is a Mennonite pastor in the Carolinas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.mennoworld.org/blog/2013/7/16/rise-o-god-judge-earth/" target="_blank">(Link)</a></span></div>
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</span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rise up O God and judge the Earth
(Psalm 82) – a prayer for Old Testament Justice.</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… </span></i><span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">quote
from<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Malcolm X after MLK’s march on
Washington – “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">While Dr. King is having
his dream, the rest of us are living a nightmare.”</i></span></div>
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</span>Hughes calls for an explosion, the Psalmist calls for an earthquake… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“How long will God allow the judges to judge
unjustly?” </i>(Psalms 13, 83, 82)… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Rise
up O God and judge the Earth, … because we don’t know how.”</i></span></div>
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</span>”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">… what about Nickel Mines… is
there a way that Nickel Mines can serve as a roadmap to Justice and Peace in
this instance?” </i>the questioner raised.</span></div>
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</span>The Nickel Mines context was fleshed out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Amish families of the victims did not cry
out for vengeance or blood-letting, but met violence with peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They could not restore what had been but they
could remove the need for vengeance.</span></div>
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</span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But wasn’t their response
basically a statement that this was not a violence directed against them, an
admission that they were all impacted by the violence, victims in that case?”</i></span></div>
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</span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yes and no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that Nickel Mines is actually read very
differently by Americans as Anglische <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>versus
the Amish as Anabaptists….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Angelische
seize upon it as a spiritual and communal response to violence… a way of healing
by appropriately memorializing the victims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Angelische response is summed up by the debate at Sandy Hook after
the massacre there… the debate was not one regarding the essence and meaning of
Justice versus Vengeance, it was a debate regarding the concept of Memorial –
the Sandy Hook families wanted to leave an appropriate memorial to the memory
of the massacre and the lost children – whether to remove the school, as they
had done in Nickel Mines or to retain the structure and return it to use was the
question… but their goal was a certain form of social vengeance against the
perpetrator… a structural or non-structural, j’accuse!”</i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>(c) Carlos Gonzales, re Minneapolis Star-Tribune</i></td></tr>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“(cont.) My understanding of Nickel Mines was
to avoid all sense of memorial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Amish were concerned that the schoolhouse would become a monument or landmark
drawing in Angelische as tourists, further disrupting their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They wanted to avoid a monument and the
fetishization of the massacre… really just to return to the normal
everyday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t a justice issue,
really more of an attempt to return to the pre-massacre world…”</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“So Justice to the Amish was not to
denigrate or punish the killer but rather be able to go back to what was before…
They accepted what had occurred as in the plan of God and refused to view
events through their own understanding“</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Justice is then a lifestyle or an attitude
… something like what we find in Psalm 85 (v 8-13) understanding Righteousness
as Justice …. “</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Andalus","serif"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">but let them not return to folly.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Andalus","serif"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">that his glory may dwell in our land.</span></i></div>
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Psalm 85, four cornerstones upon which a peaceful and just society are based –
Love, Faithfulness, Righteousness and Peace,” </span></i><span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">the pastor summarized.</span></div>
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</span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Well, then, maybe we are not so
far from the injunction to not worry in Matthew 6:25-34, which is our text, but
maybe it is not so much that we are not to worry about the provision for our
basic needs, but rather we are not to concern ourselves with how these needs
are met… that perhaps our perception of our needs are not always the most
accurate… that God provides within the structure of His plan for us and within
the community or context of the Church… and Justice would be one of these basic
needs… it will be provided but it might not look like what we think we are
looking for…“</i></span></div>
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Nickel Mines would then be to return to the quiet, simple and faithful life of
the community without needing to pursue the sense of justice, vengeance and
emotional fulfillment that we might otherwise seek but that would disrupt our
fellowship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that sense then I like the
concept of refusing to memorialize the circumstances and focusing instead on
the justice or our relationships towards God…”</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"> "Is it as simple as letting the civil courts dispense justice as they will while recognizing that the end true Justice can only come from God?" </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><i><span style="color: #b45f06;">Note: My final thought... a lack of resolution indicates to me that I am not as impacted by the realities of the Zimmerman-acquittal in that I can walk away or settle for non-resolution. This is an unsettling thought. Further thought regards the Nickel Mine dialogue... is there a place for the Mennonites amongst the Angelische? Can we go there without giving up the structure of our own peace and justice, i.e. trading our structures for those of the secular values of the American system? Is this a problem or not? What about other non-Anglo peoples -- if we have the power to call for change, can we legitimately choose to not be engaged? Lots of questions - no answers.</span></i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #990000;">The following is the account of Mennonites Bud and Clement Kroeker who are transporting a truck to Congo for to transport goods to the needy ... 'Bud' Kroeker takes us along for the pickup in Port Boma ... </span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">July 3, 2013</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
landed here in Kinshasa safely Tuesday night, July 2. The pilot said
that it had been perfect weather for flying, and our arrival was right
on time. Just the same, it was <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1840574021" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">midnight</span></span> by the time I got to the home of Dan and Christine Grings who are giving me lodging.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank
you for praying for this trip. All the last minute details were taken
care of last week in spite of many unpredictable events.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
morning I woke up early. Erik Kumedisa came and we had a long
conversation, discussing the plans for the coming days. The ship arrives
tomorrow at the Port of Boma so the truck will be unloaded that evening
or the next day. Erik will come pick me up at 6 a.m. tomorrow and we
will go by bus to the Port.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two Congolese men
helping us with customs documents are already there. We'll need to get
the other papers for the truck, insurance, immatriculation paper, etc.
in Boma once we get there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">Please pray that the
customs fees will not be too high. Normally, non-profit organizations
don't have the same tax fees, but it takes many months, even a year to
get this exemption paper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">I will be meeting with pastors in a few minutes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you for your encouragement in preparing this trip. God is good. We thank Him for providing and for guiding us day by day.</span></span></div>
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are here in the city of Boma for the first time, arriving last night. A
Pastor welcomed us at the bus terminal and took an old taxi to drive us
over dirt roads to the Hostel of the Old Port. As he showed us our
room, he told us that the river was right next to us.</span></span></span></div>
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a delight the next morning to rise and look out the window over one of
the largest rivers in the world flowing right next to us with</span> one of the many islands out in the middle<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">.
In the mist one can hardly see the other side, Fishermen in their
pirogues skim over the water seemingly without effort with the oarsman
standing up in back.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Out
in the distance one can see a ship in the ocean waiting his turn to
enter the port, and we can’t help wondering if it isn’t the ship
carrying «our» truck, but then we find out that it isn’t. From where we
are eating we watch several ships pass by us heading up the swift
current towards Matadi. Finally around 4 p.m. we see the large ship
coming in to the Port of Boma which is the one carrying the truck.
Normally they will unload the truck tomorrow and go through customs on
Monday. We appreciate your prayers for these two Christian men helping
us with customs formalities, helping to get the taxes cut. During the
day we had several talks with them and they are trying to defend our
cause.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The
trip down here from Kinshasa began early yesterday morning. Mrs. Grings
made me some sandwiches and we took off to go into the city just in
time to catch the bus leaving at 7:30 a.m. Fortunately our bus was a
newer one (brand name Tata) and a good driver. I am traveling with Erik
Kumedisa, </span>Jacques, <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">the truck
driver loaned to us for the return trip, and Erik’s daughter Gertrude
who is an announcer for TV but out of work just now.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The
highway to Boma is the same National Highway #1, but heading west from
Kinshasa towards Matadi it is blacktop that is much older and worn out,
narrower and more congested with traffic. Every few minutes we pass a
large truck loaded with containers coming from the Port of Matadi.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Around
noon we pass through Matadi. Matadi is the word for «rock». It sits
perched high up on the hills and rocks overlooking the river and the
port. Because of the over-population and congestion, the rugged terrain,
lack of urban planning, order and cleanliness, the city is over crowded
with millions of people trying to live, walking along the road without
sidewalks, crossing everywhere. Shops are crowding the sidewalks even
into the street. Taxis parked here and there, big trucks come down this
same road.</span></span></span></div>
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we cross the big suspension bridge which hangs between the two cliffs
high above the river. At first the road is quite good, but little by
little gets worse, and soon we pass villages completely covered in a red
dust from the road.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This
part of the country is very good for agriculture. People spread out
their bananas, eglantine, oranges, madrier and other fruits and
vegetables along side the road. Unfortunately the transport system is so
poor that the produce doesn’t profit the rest of the country.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We
thank God for the safe arrival in the Port city of Boma, where we will
be staying while waiting the truck to pass through customs. We will be
in Church tomorrow with friends who love and worship the same Lord,
trusting Him as we are, and singing His praises so much better than we
could.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Finally
yesterday around 5:30 p.m. customs officials cleared the truck and it
could be driven away from the Port to where we are staying at the
Auberge along the river. We praise God together with all of you who
prayed and gave so generously for this vehicle. Six days of waiting have
come to an end. Erik Kumedisa had been negotiating three days at the
Port before they finally let it go. We arrived at the Port city of Boma
Thursday night. The ship arrived Saturday July 6 in the late afternoon
and they unloaded it that night. But customs formalities couldn’t begin
until Monday morning.</span></span></span></div>
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a non-profit organisation, we’d hoped for a reduction in taxes. Though
some were actually lowered, there were so many others that we ended up
paying as much or more than we’d expected.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">While
waiting all day Saturday, we did a little sight-seeing along the coast
at the mouth of the Congo River. At the Berlin Conference on Nov. 5,
1881, the then World ruling powers divided Africa arbitrarily. King
Leopold had the vast interieur of the Congo, but the French and
Portugese only left him a very small passage from the ocean with the
Congo River. There is still a part of Angola (Kabinda) on the north side
of the River.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Sunday
we were able to go to Church with a new little group of around thirty
people in a new building. One of the elders of the church is a customs
officer who, along with another Christian took care of our customs
declarations for us and tried to help us through. After the service the
young pastor Bazinga walked with us across the city to show us a few
historical sights. This city of Boma on the Congo River was une of the
first places to be settled by Europeans as far back as the 16th century.
In fact the little meat market next to our Auberge was the actual site
of the slave trade market during the 17th and 18th centuries. And the
city was the capitol of Congo from 1886 until 1929.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Our
Auberge was simple but nice. A small breakfast of bread and coffee was
served. We had one other meal each day, usually fish and rice in a red
sauce. The rates were low, but they still add up and </span>now <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">we are happy to be on our way.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Today
we bought the license plates and got the other things taken care of so
that we can leave for Kinshasa tomorrow morning. We are very grateful to
the Lord that we will at last be able to continue west towards our
destination. We’ll be in Kinshasa a few days for errands, meeting a few
people and to check the truck over before going to Matende. Please pray
as we drive tomorrow on the difficult stretch of road between Boma and
Kinshasa. I need to get used to driving this truck and to the roads. A
fine truck driver has been loaned to us for the hard parts.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Greetings from Kinshasa.<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>July 13, 2013</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We arrived here at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1735439219" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">3 a.m.</span></span> this morning, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1735439220" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Saturday</span></span>, thanks to God’s grace and protection. I’m happy to be back at the Grings home where I found my bed at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1735439221" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">4:30</span></span>. But morning came quickly and I was up by 7.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Yesterday
we didn’t get off as quickly as we’d hoped from Boma. We had a truck
driver we didn’t really know, and a truck we’d never really taken out on
the road to try out. And there wasn’t much money left after paying
customs, plus the fact that we didn’t know how much diesel fuel would be
needed for the trip nor how much toll would be demanded... </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Actually
the truck reservoir holds 150 liters and we didn’t use it all up after
432 kilometers yesterday. Toll roads, the Maréchal Mobutu bridge at
Matadi and the fee for weighing the truck (9.970 kilos) all added up to
$100.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Someone
stole the key to the truck at the port and we had to go out and buy a
new one (which may have been the original one) but it doesn’t work too
well. We need to get another one.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The
driver, Jacques, did a great job of driving and I was very happy to let
him do it. The trip was extremely tiring with no assisted steering and
bad roads. Driving at night was dangerous because as we headed into the
poorly adjusted headlights of big trucks headed towards us and the port
of Matadi, we were blinded. Sometimes trucks had no tail lights. Of
course no street lights or freeways lit up as they are in Belgium. The
villages were packed with people, goats, all walking along the narrow
roads.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Kelly Hofer</b>, noted
Hutterite photographer, captured the floods inundating Calgary, Alberta,
late last month. With his permission, we are sharing his experience
and a few of his images with you revealing the flood and its impact on
the community.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;"><u><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Part 3: </b> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>The Ritual of Community</b></i></span></span></u></span><br />
<b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></i></b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">met reinje ne Nobaschoft</span></span></i></b></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></b></i></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417380932123682577.post-78649251737106217012013-07-11T14:50:00.000-07:002013-07-11T14:50:22.496-07:00Kelly Hofer: Calgary Flood 2013 pt 2:3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Kelly Hofer</b>, noted
Hutterite photographer, captured the floods inundating Calgary, Alberta,
late last month. With his permission, we are sharing his experience
and a few of his images with you revealing the flood and its impact on
the community.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;"><u><span style="color: #134f5c;">Part 2: <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>The Surveyors</b></i></span></span></u><i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></i></span><b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></i></b><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">met äwadäl kome </span></span></i></b></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">en be'kjikje</span></span></b></i></span><br />
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<i>all images used by permission and (c) Kelly Hofer, 2013.</i><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Kelly Hofer</b>, the Hutterite photographer, captured the floods inundating Calgary, Alberta, late last month. With his permission, we are sharing his experience and a few of his images with you revealing the flood and its impact on the community.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;"><u><span style="color: #134f5c;">Part 1: Inundation and </span></u><span style="color: #134f5c;">Q</span><u><span style="color: #134f5c;">uiet</span></u><i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> ne Äwaschwaminj enn ne stell Tiet</span></b></i></span><br />
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<i>all images used by permission and (c) Kelly Hofer, 2013.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #38761d;">It is still rhubarb (ru-boaba) season in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Manitoba -- and it seems to be a bumper crop.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> My friend Steve Dahl returned from Wisconsin with three paper grocery bags filled with rhubarb and so we had a chopping party and decided to split our harvest into three products -- two gallons of chopped rhubarb were dry frozen (without preservatives, liquid or syrup) in 2-cup amounts for use in pies, cakes, muffins, breads, ice-cream and other delicacies. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> Dry-frozen rhubarb should be frozen in zip-lock baggies or in freezer bags. The goal is to remove as much oxygen as possible to prevent discolouration. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> Dry-frozen rhubarb may be kept for up to six months... longer than that and one might want to consider freezing the rhubarb in a protective mixture of fruit juice or fruit syrup. Dry-frozen rhubarb may freezer-burn but should be ok as long as it is used within the six-month period.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> Note that I heartily and unofficially endorse the <i>Cuisinart</i> line of chef knives available at<i> Macy's</i> and at <i>Lowe's</i> as being one of the best, most comfortable and edge-retaining chef knives for the money. One might spend more, but I have found that <i>Cuisinart</i> are easily cleaned, require minimal maintenance and sharpening, and easily fit the hand. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b><span style="color: #990000;"><u>Strawber</u>ry<u>-Rhubarb Du</u>mp<u> Cake</u></span><u><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></u></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">4 to 5 cups of cubed rhubarb (raw) (two frozen packages)</span></span><span style="color: #990000;"></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">1 cup sugar</span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">1 (3 oz) package of strawberry Jello</span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">1 white cake mix</span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">1 1/4 cup water</span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">1/2 cup melted margarine or butter</span></span><br />
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Bake in a 350° oven for about 1 hour. </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Delicious served warm with ice-cream, half-and-half or cream.
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <b>BUT</b> our hearts were truly set on other things. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Being Mennonite, one can hardly go through the summer without rodercoca and rhubarb sauce or rhubarb sauce on bread, cake or ice-cream. So... we pulled out my Great-grandmother Mercedes Knuth - Conatser's recipe for rhubarb sauce (recalling Gladys Kauffman's secret of adding just a few raspberries for color and a more fruity taste).</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"> We will make 1 gallon of rhubarb sauce and 2 gallons of rhubarb - berry jam, adapting a recipe Nancy Wall collected from an old issue of <i>Country Woman</i> <i>Journal</i>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"> In the city, Aldi's tends to have the best prices on produce... so we will scout the Asian markets for berries and probably purchase from Aldi's a mixture of blueberries and strawberries to add to the jam mixture.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Before hand, we have packed both rhubarb mixtures in appropriate amounts of sugar to help break down the juices. Jams take about twice the amount of sugar as does a sauce. Sauces require sugar as a sweetener, while jellies and jams require enough sugar to act as a preservative.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Caution: like other fruits, rhubarb will darken if left out in the air, so we placed a layer of plastic wrap directly over the sugar-fruit mixtures with an additional covering to stop air flow.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"> But, we will have to keep you in suspense until tomorrow to see how this all turns out. Happy Rhubarb Season!</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417380932123682577.post-37945784710037926292013-07-04T16:50:00.000-07:002013-07-04T20:18:40.122-07:004th of July, 2013, in Egypt<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> From the Bible Society of Egypt... As Americans celebrate the birth of their Democracy and the spirit of Freedom in America, so too, others are celebrating around the world. Bruderthaler is sharing this post to help get the information out regarding what fellow Christians are saying about the situation in Egypt. The impression is far different than that shared on Fox and CNN. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> This is shared both to help spread the good word and to encourage those who support the Bible Society of Egypt and its work.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><i> ~ Bruderthaler</i></span></span></span><br />
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Dear friends,<br />
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<span style="color: mediumblue;"><b><i>Thanks for your concern</i></b></span><br />
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You undoubtedly see the images of what is happening in Egypt on TV and worry about us and pray for us!<br />
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<span style="color: mediumblue;"><b><i>The real picture</i></b></span><br />
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What you do not know is that the real picture from the inside is
radically different from what you imagine. The pictures you see in this
newsletter are of happy people - including Rebecca and myself -
participating in the demonstrations demanding the resignation of our
President. Unlike previous demonstrations in which I participated at
this very location in front of the Presidential Palace (when there was
barbed wire, riot police and tear gas), these demonstrations have been,
for the most part, unusually peaceful.<br />
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The crowds around us were in a festive mood, parents, children, old <img align="left" height="206" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/017b6b7c5bf6d7468fcc6aedc/images/story02_caption1b.jpg" style="border: 0; height: 206px; line-height: 100%; margin: 5px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; width: 320px;" width="320" />people,
all chanting for the fall of the Government and enthusiastically waving
flags and banners. As Rebecca and I walked through the crowds we did
not feel unsafe in spite of the incredibly crowded conditions and the <span style="color: red;"><i>complete lack of any police or army presence</i>.</span>
On the contrary, we all felt very proud to be Egyptians and to be among
so many wonderful compatriots from Christians to conservative, Muslim,
veiled women! The concern, enthusiasm, passion and love for our country
which we all shared was exhilarating and made us all the more loyal to
our great nation.<br />
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The more than 17 million demonstrators all over the country (the largest <img align="right" height="200" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/017b6b7c5bf6d7468fcc6aedc/images/tumblr_mpb08utxLv1rjaqbfo6_1280.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: 200px; line-height: 100%; margin: 5px; outline: medium none; text-decoration: none; width: 320px;" width="320" />turnout
in Egypt’s history and maybe a world record) have been remarkably
peaceful and safe. You can see the unbelievable extent of some of the
demonstrations in this link taken from a helicopter overlooking Cairo on
June 30th:<br />
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<span style="color: mediumblue;"><b><i>Homemade solution</i></b></span><br />
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It was when Egyptians realized that they could not depend on
foreign powers to resolve their crisis, that a small group of young
people took matters in their own hands and started this grass roots
movement designed to force the President to resign. The fact that this
is truly a movement by and for the people gives more reason for
Egyptians to participate proudly in the protests.<br />
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<span style="color: mediumblue;"><b><i>Regaining the spirit of the January 2011 Revolution</i></b></span><br />
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the January 2011 “revolution”, the exhilaration of the crowds was
mainly because they felt united together as Egyptians regardless of
their social, economic, political or religious situation or views. When
the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist parties won the majority in
the new parliament and had one of their own elected as President, they
quickly turned it into an autocratic one-party rule and hijacked the
revolution with its “Egypt for all” emphasis. <span style="color: red;"><i>Their attempt to impose political Islam on Egypt is one of the major causes of the present very widespread revolt.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: mediumblue;"><b><i>Rejoice with us</i></b></span><br />
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So instead of worrying for us, rejoice with us for the remarkable
events happening in our country. Pray that the unprecedented unity
expressed between all Egyptians who reject the forceful imposition of
political Islam will result in a new Egypt where people with different
persuasions can live alongside one another in harmony. This is the
Egypt I remember from my youth and the Egypt most Egyptians yearn for.<br />
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<span style="color: mediumblue;"><b><i>Pray for the wounded and families of those killed</i></b></span><br />
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Yes there have been some very sad incidents of violence and the
militant Muslims are threatening to retaliate against this incredible,
national show of solidarity against them. Dozens have been killed and
hundreds wounded and that’s what you see on your TV screens. While this
is very sad and regrettable, the casualties are minimal compared to the
millions out on the streets every night.<br />
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<span style="color: mediumblue;"><b><i>Looking forward to a brighter future</i></b></span><br />
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As I write on the morning of Wednesday July 3<sup>rd</sup>, we
have no idea what will happen next. The Army has given the President
till this evening to meet the demands of “the people”. In a late-night
speech yesterday, Morsi stubbornly rejected that ultimatum and
threatened that he and his people were willing to give their lives for
their cause.<br />
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In spite of these threats, the deep division in society caused by the
Islamists, the desperate economic plight of the nation, and the very
complex political situation, we know <span style="color: red;"><i>WHO </i></span>holds the future and are confident that the present crisis will be resolved according to His plan for Egypt.<br />
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Thank you for your partnership and continued prayers for us during these momentous days.<br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Ramez Atallah<br />
General Director<br />
The Bible Society of Egypt</span></span><br />
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1 Ali Fahmy El Zanaty St, PO Box 5277, Heliopolis West 11771, Cairo EgyptUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417380932123682577.post-51105230173718589912013-07-02T12:10:00.000-07:002013-07-02T12:57:46.898-07:00frolichen jeburtsdach Kanada - Steinbach Style!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Mennonite Heritage Village Museum which preserves the history of the Manitoba's Mennonites in Steinbach, retaining both the rich heritage of the Prussian and Russian migrations, and the contributions of these industrious and faithful folk to Canada, celebrated Canada Day (01 July) in style with traditional Mennonite waffles, tractor rides, political stumping and all the joys of life in the new land.<br />
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The following is a photo journal of this celebration, taken from the Mennonite Heritage Village Museum Facebook page. For more information, please visit: <a href="http://www.mennoniteheritagevillage.com/" target="_blank">Mennonite Heritage Museum</a><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="background-color: white;">Jakob (JD) & Susie Wall's Mennonite Waffles ...</span></b></i></span></span><br />
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2 cups flour 2 egg whites<br />
4 teaspoons baking powder 4 Tablespoons melted shortening<br />
1/2 teaspoon salt 1 3/4 cups milk<br />
2 egg yolks <br />
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Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Add egg yolks and milk, and beat thoroughly. Add shortening, mix in beaten egg whites. Bake in hot waffle iron until brown. Serve hot with butter and sauce, maple syrup or preserves.<br />
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1 cup milk 1 1/2 Tablespoons cornstarch or flour<br />
1/3 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla<br />
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Heat the milk slightly over medium low heat, stirring constantly (do not boil!). Add sugar and stir until dissolved. Pour cornstarch or flour into a bowl or cup, moisten with warm milk and stir or whisk until dissolved. Return the cornstarch mixture to the warm milk and stir until thickened. (Again, do not boil!). Serve over hot waffles with fruit or jam and bacon or sausage.<br />
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1 cup white sugar 1 cup water<br />
1 cup brown sugar 1 - 2 teaspoons maple flavoring<br />
1 cup light corn syrup<br />
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Combine and boil 5 minutes. Add flavoring. Yields 3 cups.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>Phoenix Convention Center courtesy City of Phoenix</i></span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #B8CCE4; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Andalus; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-shading-themecolor: accent1; mso-shading-themetint: 102;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">PHOENIX</span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>2013 </span></b></div>
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<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #B8CCE4; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Andalus; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-shading-themecolor: accent1; mso-shading-themetint: 102;">and the Ghosts of
1898</span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Andalus; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In choosing to maintain Phoenix, Arizona,
as the location for the national Mennonite Church – USA conference, over the
objections of many in the Hispanic, immigrant and pro-LGBTQ Mennonite
community, church leaders have resurrected age-old conflicts and divisions that
have often haunted those in the Mennonite diaspora since the first national
conferences beginning in 1898.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2011, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Iglesia
Menonita Hispana</i>, MC-USA’s Hispanic identity, confronted the national
church over the then-scheduled Phoenix Convention for 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Iglesia</i>
was concerned about recent Arizona legislation putting Hispanic and minority or
immigrant Americans at risk for being detained by Arizona law enforcement
officers and being forced to carry and demonstrate proof of legal
citizenship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At risk were numerous
Mennonites in the United States who lack proper citizenship papers, not just
those of Hispanic culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Iglesia
</i>was concerned about the risks MC–USA was asking Latino Mennonites to endure
in order to travel to Phoenix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Responding to MC-USA’s decision, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Iglesia</i>
responded that it was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“hurt by the
symbolic message this sent to Latino Mennonites,” </i>and that it would not
participate in the conference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Sarah
Thompson, Christian Peacemaker Teams).</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> “In order to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters who
are undocumented, we choose to stand with them and advocate on their behalf
before the church and government, and also choose to abstain from attending the
2013 convention if held in Phoenix. If the Phoenix site is chosen, we
will bless the people who will be attending the event and will continue to
pray. While we are blessing the people and the event, it does NOT mean
that we endorse the location. We would also ask that ANY staff or board
member (of any ethnicity) that would choose not to attend the convention if
held in Phoenix be allowed to do so without question.” (quote from IMH letter
of Dec 2011)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Members of the Iglesia Menonita Hispana board and other leaders at IMH’s
May 3–4 “Celebrating Immigration” event: Gilberto Cortéz from Oregon,
IMH Board; Soledad López from Pennsylvania; Stanley Green of Mennonite
Mission Network; Samuel López, IMH moderator from Pennsylvania; David
Maldonado, IMH moderator-elect from Florida; Madeline Maldonado, IMH
director of finances from Florida; Leona Diener, board member from
Texas; Juanita Nuñez, board member from Florida; Tania Guzman, board
member from New York; Nicolás Angustia, board member from New York; Juan
Montes, California board member, and Rafael Barahona, Mennonite
Education Agency. (Photo: Rafael Barahona) courtesy MC-USA.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As early as 2010, other groups voiced their
support for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Iglesia</i> noting that they share
in a common cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>June 2010, Brethren and Mennonite Council
(BMC) posted the following statement on their web-site:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“The recent
anti-immigration legislation passed in Arizona is not only a statement of
frustration at the lack of a compassionate federal immigration policy, but also
a reflection of hostile attitudes and actions directed towards Latino people in
Arizona and beyond. If anyone doubted this more sinister motive, the governor’s
signing of a bill prohibiting the teaching in public schools of ethnic study
classes that advocate ethnic solidarity, makes this point glaringly clear. </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">From painful
experience, the lgbt community knows how it feels when legislators use their
power to target, harass and demean a particular group. As a community whose
families are not legally recognized, we also understand the inadequacies of
immigration laws and the disruption and grief they can cause. For these reasons
and also because the Latino community includes lgbt people, BMC stands in
solidarity with Latino people as a continuation of the struggle for human
dignity and worth that is at the center of our work.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Importantly, BMC noted and provided early
support for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Iglesia’</i> s request that
MC-USA cancel their convention contracts with the city of Phoenix and the
Arizona vendors and find a new location, while recommending that their
Mennonite and Brethren membership consider a travel boycott to Arizona, a
recommendation subsequently ignored by the leadership of MC-USA and the
conferencing committee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A year later, on 06 Jan 2011, Christian
Peacemaker Teams (CPT) co-Director Carol Rose released the following statement
of support for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Iglesia’s </i>position:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I am disappointed that MCUSA’s leaders are still leaning toward a
Phoenix convention despite concerns about Arizona’s recently enacted law that
creates such wide space for imposing racist discrimination. Right now we
have a priceless opportunity for U.S. Mennonites to stand with those on the
margins, to stand for justice,”</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the same statement, Tim Nafzinger notes
the special legacy and responsibility of the Russian Mennonites, a Mennonite
ethnicity that has endured a 500 years status as international religious and
political refugees:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“My ancestors were immigrants in previous centuries, who came to North
America because of systems that oppressed them in Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, God is giving us an incredible
opportunity to support this century's immigrants in their struggle to live in
peace and unafraid. Let's not let the moment pass us by."</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By 2013, Facebook sites such as that
belonging to Pink Menno Campaign, an LGBTQ-oriented outreach loosely organized
by BMC, and Mennonite World Review, an ethno-religious inter-Mennonite news
source, reflected both the intensity of the debate and feelings regarding
Arizona and the growing split between those who saw the location as an issue
and those who did not understand the problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Added to concerns over the safety of
illegal immigrants and the comfort of Latino and other ethnic Mennonite groups,
were added the boisterous threats and anti-gay legislations of Arizona in 2012
and 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Making things even worse, just
prior to conference, legislation was introduced requiring all Arizona high
school students to recite an oath of allegiance to the state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a church still uncomfortable with the voluntary
recitation of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pledge of Allegiance</i>
in public gatherings, the idea of required oath taking should have united the
church in understanding that Phoenix was an increasingly politicized and
polarizing location, perhaps unworthy of if not a direct threat towards even
the most basic tenets of historic Anabaptism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of 25 May, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
was still intent on enforcing anti-illegal immigration duties he felt were not
being performed by the Federal government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just last week, Arizona-based organizations celebrated the 44<sup>th</sup>
Anniversary of the Stonewall Protest by taking the lead in challenging recent pro-same-sex
marriage decisions by the Supreme Court, joining a civil rights resistance
movement that audaciously shocked the nation by declaring their united
determination to simply ignore the Supreme Court if it upheld gay rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even with the Supreme Court decision, there
is no protection or provision that gays and same-sex couples traveling to Phoenix
2013 will not be unnecessarily hassled as attendees or tourists, not to mention
that many inter-national same-sex couples face similar complicating difficulties
in dealing with immigration officials, complications that do not pertain to
heterosexual couples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regardless, citing reasons of cost (money)
and convenience, MC-USA determined in 2010 that the conference would be held as
scheduled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Discussions with church
leaders indicate that an effort was made to consider a satellite conference
held in Chicago for those who did not feel they could safely or in good
conscience attend the Phoenix event, but these proposals came to naught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A positive, but in the end effectively meaningless,
attempt was made to recast the decision to continue with the Phoenix location
by turning the focus from cost savings to being a witness to Phoenix regarding “positive
Mennonite attitudes and values.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Programming was changed to include more discussion relating to diversity
and immigrant Mennonite concerns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Local Mennonite church leaders in
Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, noted their decision to attend Phoenix
despite their otherwise well-known social activist views and activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For them, the change in focus was
enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Comparisons were made to the
decision by Mennonite World Conference, an international gathering of various
Mennonite groups and conferences, to hold their 2009 international convention
in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first, many
Western Mennonites were disturbed by the idea of gathering in Zimbabwe out of
politics and in regard to using up the relatively scant resources of the
hosting Zimbabwe national conferences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand, there seems to be a
great distinction between the controversies surrounding the Zimbabwe World
Conference and the 2013 Phoenix Convention in that the Zimbabwe churches
requested that the Conference be held in Africa and saw their ability to host
their Mennonite brothers and sisters in their own churches as an act of
world-wide inclusion and empowerment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The controversy surrounding Phoenix is the
opposite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This site location symbolizes
a decision to accept exclusion rather than inclusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Zimbabwe Conference was held at the
request of the impacted groups and churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Phoenix Convention is being held despite the request of the impacted
groups and churches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An interesting reaction to MC-USA’s
handling of the Phoenix controversy was BMC and Pink Mennos transition from
advocating diversity and inclusion to engagement of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Strangers No More Project</i>,, modeled after iO Tillet Wright’s
project, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Self Evident Truths Project.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both projects focused on putting a human face
to those who continue to be excluded and victimized by discrimination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The implied message is that the mainstream
Mennonite church needs to “know” and “see” who they exclude, or who is not
included and who might feel discriminated against, so that they cannot be so
easily written off or seen a minor, and thereby excludable, portion of the
church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The unspoken question being the
extent to which <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Iglesias </i>is also
perhaps seen by many as a faceless, non-essential, non-core Mennonite identity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You see, just like many in the Mennonite
Church – USA were not seemingly moved by the prospect of “missing” fellowship
with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Iglesia</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Strangers No More </i>aims to introduce the church to the friends,
family and co-workers who would not be able to attend were BMC and Pink Mennos
to be likewise unable to attend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(While
Pink Mennos and BMC are not officially part of the convention and have not been
allowed display space in the main hall, conference officials have made room to
include the gay advocacy groups in the margins of the Convention’s
programming.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, one waits to see how groups like BMC
and Pink Menno will successfully address the controversy at the actual
Convention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the two groups,
BMC-Pink Mennos and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Iglesias</i> have a
lot more in common than even they know, or that more conservative elements of
MC-USA would want them to realize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the most significant dangers is that
of fragmentation within the Mennonite Church sectarian conference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One the one hand, there exists a Mennonite
Church – USA that celebrates social justice and diversity within ethnic groups,
within gender identifications and within language and cultural groups. The flip
side of the coin is that the spiritual church is strongly divided by its
secular politics regarding immigration, acculturation, the military and
acceptance of the LGBTQ community and pursuit of equal rights for all
groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certain churches within the
LGBTQ dialogue have already been pressured by sub-conferences to move or join
other <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">liberal</i> conferences, such as
has been the experience of Saint Paul Mennonite Fellowship in Minnesota, and in
Pennsylvania, where Frazer Mennonite Church left its conference to join the
Atlantic Coast Conference, immediately prompting the church of Maple Grove
Pennsylvania to “recategorize” its membership within the LGBTQ welcoming
conference from “full membership” to “associate membership”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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church group separated from the main body of MC-USA by language and ethnic
culture – two issues that ought to unite a church built in diversity but which
have historically split the Mennonites who have schismed or refused cooperation
based in the usage of competing forms of German dialects or even between the
use of German or English in the homes and church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many politically conservative Mennonites
who oppose LGBTQ rights and inclusion, or wish that “gay” churches would
separate and form their own conference, are also seemingly supportive of
conservative political understandings of immigration, language use and the
status of illegal immigrants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
there are no polls that highlight this tension within MC-USA, other polling
data indicates a strong correlation between attitudes towards immigration,
illegal immigrants, social welfare and anti-gay legislation to be highly sympathetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, those who hold a conservative
stance towards one of these topics are highly likely to view the other topics
conservatively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other polls indicate a
strong correlation between a personal belief system conforming to “Fundamentalist”
Christian values such as anti-evolution, public display of the 10 Commandments
and the above mentioned political values.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One learns in academia and research that
sometimes it is not the questions that one asks that are the most meaningful,
or the ones that are answered, but rather the questions that remain unasked and
unanswered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the controversy surrounding Phoenix 2013,
groups such as BMC will perhaps a role in answering the question as to why
alternatives to holding the convention in Phoenix were not followed up on and
why it is considered sufficient and appropriate to move on and to address the
delegate sessions without the full and equal representation<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of not only the gay community, but also those
congregations that together make up <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Iglesia. </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or is it enough to note that for 2013, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Iglesia</i> will be functioning as a
separate and distinct identity outside of the Convention?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps too many politically conservative Mennonites
are actually a lot of more comfortable with things this way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For too many of us, perhaps the limitations
imposed on us by meeting in Phoenix are limitations and exclusions that suit us
just fine? Would they actually prefer that <i>Iglesia</i> withdraw and form a distinct Hispanic entity with its own politics and focus?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In conversation with Glen Guyton of the
MC-USA Conference oversight committee, meaningful changes have been added to
the programming to meet and answer these questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will all wait to see how insightful and
impactful these sessions are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first national conference built out of
conventions held in 1898 failed because the things that divided us in
1898, language, geography, focus and theological-leanings became more
convenient to us and were of greater fundamental and long term importance to us
than were the things that united us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pray
that 2013 is not another 1898.</span></div>
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current.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The piece was placed on hold until
news out of Arizona over the weekend potentially making life challenging for any
gays and lesbians who would attend the convention, especially with their
partners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The news potentially places LGBTQ
couples in the same potential danger of not only being harassed, but targeted
based on their identity, though in most, but not all, cases, not to the same
extent as facing deportation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lives
could easily be ruined by politicized public servants in both the immigrant
church, Latino and LGBTQ communities.</span></div>
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</span>One of the many challenges is to discuss the specific problems and scenarios
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</span>A more polished version may be substituted at a future time, but will be
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question, we have mined the lists of professional players and the rosters of
teams for anyone who might, just possible might be of Mennonite ethnic or faith
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Those on the following list are
believed to be professional hockey players in the NHL or Europe and are
understood to be of Mennonite extraction based on secondary evidence such as
being mentioned in a church bulletin, newspaper or other resource.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If anyone knows if they are or not,
please let us know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, please let us
know of any others who are not on the list. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thanks!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>~ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bruderthaler</i></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Barkman, Jon</span></b>, Steinbach,
MB, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bartel, Robin</span></b>, Drake, SK,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bergen, Todd</span></b>, Prince
Albert, SK, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Block, Kenneth Richard</span></b>,
Steinbach, MB, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dyck, Ed</span></b>, Moosemin, SK, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dyck, Henry</span></b>, Herbert, SK,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dyck, Paul</span></b>, Steinbach, MB,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fast, Brad</span></b>, Ladysmith, BC,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fehr, Eric</span></b>, Winkler, MB,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Friesen, Jeff</span></b>, Meadow
Lake, SK, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Friesen, Karl</span></b>, Winnipeg,
MB, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Funk, Michael</span></b>, Abbotsford,
BC, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gage, Joachim</span></b>, Vancouver,
BC, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Goertz, Dave</span></b>, Edmonton, AB,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Goertzen, Steven</span></b>, Strong
Plain, AB, CA </div>
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<a name='more'></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Harms, John</span></b>, Saskatoon,
SK, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Heinrich, Lionel</span></b>,
Chruchbridge, SK, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Klassen, Ralph</span></b>, Humbolt,
SK, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Krahn, Brent</span></b>, Winkler, MB,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Loewen, Darcy</span></b>, Calgary,
AB, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Neufeld, Roy</span></b>, St Boniface,
MB, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Orr, Colten</span></b>, Winnipeg, MB,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Penner, Dustin</span></b>, Winkler,
MB, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Regehr, Richard</span></b>, Bandong,
Indonesia</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Regehr, Robyn</span></b>, Recife, BR</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Regier, Darcy</span></b>, Swift
Current, SK, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Regier, Steve</span></b>, Edmonton,
AB, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Reichert, Craig</span></b>, Winnipeg,
MB, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Reimer, James</span></b>, Morweena,
MB, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rupp, Duane</span></b>, MacNutt, SK,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rupp, Mike</span></b>, Cleveland, OH,
USA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Schlegel, Bradley</span></b>,
Kitchener, ON, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Schultz, Dave</span></b>, Waldheim,
SK, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sittler, Darryl</span></b>,
Kitchener, ON, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Snyder, Dan</span></b>, Elmira, ON,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Theissen, Brad</span></b>,
Aldergrove, BC, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Toews, David Ryan</span></b>,
Winnipeg, MB, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Toews, Jonathan</span></b>, Winnipeg,
MB, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unger, Garry</span></b>, Calgary, AB,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wall, Michael</span></b>, Telkwa, BC,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">White, Ian</span></b>, Steinbach, MB,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wideman, Dennis</span></b>,
Kitchener, ON, CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wiebe, Art</span></b>, Rosthern, SK,
CA</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Winkler, Hal</span></b>, Gretna, MB,
CA</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417380932123682577.post-73108007923053170822013-06-29T16:15:00.000-07:002013-06-29T16:41:30.124-07:00NYC - A Mennonite Landscape<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Manhattan, New York, New York, 2013</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Charlie Kraybill</b></span>, born Mennonite, educated at Eastern Mennonite University, has made a home for himself while discovering a unique Mennonite landscape in the boroughs and urban canyons of New York City.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjwH9Z7CccCr0dQUb4ED1xPJAfN2taVQyjuIrphOlFT4p9ujc024SiIOn8HQNbEouycngHIy5rfKcmttQ2urteeHN4Kz7Id3qykoaJof8sswjoPBdsC2x0mOWGfFFG1ci96i0LJxZemGlM/s720/Charlie+Kraybill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjwH9Z7CccCr0dQUb4ED1xPJAfN2taVQyjuIrphOlFT4p9ujc024SiIOn8HQNbEouycngHIy5rfKcmttQ2urteeHN4Kz7Id3qykoaJof8sswjoPBdsC2x0mOWGfFFG1ci96i0LJxZemGlM/s200/Charlie+Kraybill.jpg" width="189" /></a> Kraybill's friends on Facebook have long been treated to his particular vision and experience of North America's largest metropolis. Kraybill has a way of cutting it down to size with a focus on what is otherwise often seen as the anonymous individual. At the same time, his landscape tends to be defined by paths (streets, sidewalks, canyons, subway tracks) and set landmarks.<br />
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To my mind, he moves beyond the hustle and bustle of 5th Avenue, Wall Street and Broadway to highlight the culture and quiet peace of those who call the city home. Kraybill's NYC has more in common with the Paris of Renoir, Seurat and Erich Marie Remarque or the city of Edward Hopper and F. Scott Fitzgerald than the loud, boisterous lights, clubs and sirens so often brought out in contemporary television programming. Kraybill's New York City is a place where a normal person might like to live, and where even a Mennonite might find a quiet, peace-filled lifestyle, and yet one that is always changing and never boring.<br />
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One of his photographs seems to to indicate this sense explicitly by focusing in on the unmoving permanence of a potted, residential boxwood while the sights, sounds and brilliantly coloured yellow taxis whirr by in and out of frame, in and out of the context of the boxwood.<br />
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In presenting a selection of his photographs on this blog, I have cautiously edited many of them to bring out colour, depth and contrast. I often find this necessary for the digital blogs and images that are backlit on computer and cell phone screens.<br />
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At the same time, one will note that Kraybill's native tone is much flatter, bringing out a style more reminiscent of the French Impressionists and Pointillists than the vibrant clarities of Visionaire, Vogue or even Gorski and Wall. This ain't your Sex And the City or Devil Wears Prada photo-shoot.<br />
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Enjoy and please contact Kraybill directly for use or questions relating to his work.<br />
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~ <i>Bruderthaler</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8th Avenue below 15th Street at 22:00 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8th Avenue & 126th at 15:33 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">15:55 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">16th & 5th at 18:35 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Anthony Procession at 17:48 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">68 Degrees F in the Village at 15:45 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">74th & Broadway at 19:25 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">China at Lincoln Center, 18:40 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christopher Street, West Village, at 21:25 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Collyer Brothers Park, 5th Avenue & 128th Street at 15:15 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cornelia Street Cafe, Greenwich Village, 18:53 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crosby above Prince at 19:15 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Downtown No. 2 at 13:30 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">East 16th Street at 23:20 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grand Central Station, 18:50 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greene & Waverly at 21:28 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hastings on Hudson at 17:12 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Houston and the Bowery at 13:45 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Judaica Section, The Strand Bookstore, 12th & Broadway at 13:48 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kingsbridge Road Station at 17:47 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lorillard & Fordham at 18:42 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11:23 am</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">12th & Broadway at 16:36 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">15:43 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">17:35 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">18:11 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">19:20 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Beware, Mr. Baker"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kingsbridge Road at 17:56 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quarry Road at 17:10 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Queensboro Plaza at 10:20 am</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Union Theological Seminary, 121st & Broadway at 18:46 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Washington Square at 19:45 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Washington Square Park at 15:24 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Woodside at 19:47 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old Town Bar, East 18th Street at 12:45 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saint Marx Place & Thoid Avenue at 16:33 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lawn at Lincoln Center at 20:30 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Strand at 11:15 am</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">55 Degrees F, Union Square at 13:30 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Union Square at 16:45 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Washington Square at 19:45 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Plains Road at 18:00 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Broadway & 10th at 19:28 pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fordham Road at 17:44 pm</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">A look at the present through the lens of the past...</span></b></span>. </span></div>
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(26 Jun, 2013) It has been an interesting two days for
SCOTUS... the results being more-or-less <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">meh</i>
for both sides... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and a hardening of
pre-existing, yet increasingly impermeable, social, political and religious national
divisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A sad legacy on this 150<sup>th</sup>
Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50<sup>th</sup>
Anniversary of the Martin Luther King, Jr.’s March on Washington, both aimed at
ending many related and not dissimilar divisions.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the most significant result is not
necessarily that voting discrimination on racial, linguistic and economic grounds
will now be winked at by powerless Federal overseers but that so many American states still prefer
to look backwards into the darkness of Dixie’s Confederacy rather than towards
the light of the Constitution of the United States for inspiration and
political understanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A dread day has
descended for all descendants of those who gave their lives, including a
President, horribly assassinated, for the vision of a nation unified in rights,
dignity and liberty for all and for all children of all immigrants who came to
this country in the increasingly dubious hope of liberty and justice for
all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similarly, while the Prop 8 decision places
limits on the right to interfere in state politics by third parties, but together with the DOMA
overruling, leaves our nation equally divided again along similar geographic and
political lines between those states that practice, celebrate and recognize
freedom, equality and due process for all, and those who would restrict the
rights of their fellow citizens based on the social, economic and religious <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>prejudices of an increasingly minority privileged
political class.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems to me that we have seen established
today, two Americas:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One that is the
home of the brave, land of the free and a beacon of light and welcome to the
world, against an America that continues to persist in those most egregious
political errors of our history -- a Confederacy grounded in and inspired by a love
and toleration for institutionalized inequality and voter intimidation between
classes of supposedly and naturally free and equal citizens, all in the name of
a privileged caste and a privileged religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I would like to celebrate the hopes and
victories of friends and family today, I find my joy tempered with the sadness
of apostate clerics <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>chanting divisive propaganda
and slogans in hopes of resurrecting the ghosts of the White Sheets and the Grey
Army to obscure and rend the vision of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton,
LaFayette and the Adams, or to turn blind, intolerant, bigoted eyes to the
historical and natural customs of the majority of those First Nations whom God prior-established
in this land as a hope, inspiration and example to those immigrants, and to all
lovers of liberty, community and equality in this land, into two separate and
unequal Americas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Intolerable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me clarify, lest some mistake this for a
mere rant, this is not a SCOTUS failing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>SCOTUS, like Providence, is merely giving us over to the results and
consequences of our own limitations as a body politic and mutually responsible,
if increasingly hostile and unequal, community of citizens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>150 years after the battles of Gettysburg,
Vicksburg and Chattanooga, 150 years after Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address,
150 plus 1 years after the Siouan Uprising for freedom and self-determination, and
50 years after MLK, Jr. promulgated his dream of America to America, we find
ourselves divided now as much as ever, but worse, for now too many of us have not learned from the past but continue to strive for
a privileged caste of unequal citizens and incompatible states.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We now perpetuate and encourage these
divisions in pursuit of caste and inequality, but not in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">naïvité</i> of our forebears, but rather in
the hardened consciences of those who knowingly and willfully deny the promise
of America to ALL Americans.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, as for no other day in the past,
increasing numbers of our fellow world citizens look upon the light and promise
of a divided America with the same reaction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>~ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">meh</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s fix this.<br />
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6:14 pm -<br />
<i><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">later, similar tho'ts from other sources ... </span></span> </i><br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-start-the-border-fence-in-norfolk-va/2013/06/25/09e63d18-dd1c-11e2-9218-bc2ac7cd44e2_story.html" target="_blank">Meyerson, Harold, "Start the Border Fence in Norfolk, Va.," Washington Post</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/supreme-court-leaves-final-decision-on-gay-marriag,32969/" target="_blank">The Onion "Supreme Court Leaves Final Decision On Gay Marriage In Capable Hands Of Texas, Alabama, Georgia"</a></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i>Sunday perambulation and fastpa in St Paul's Mac-Grove neighborhood ... </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 28.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prayers for Mealtime</span></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Een
christelijcke benedictie voor, een gracias na den eaten</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Harlow Solid Italic"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For other foundation can no man lay
than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I Corinthians 3.11</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #7F7F7F; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Courtesy Herald
Press, Scottdale, PA (1984), Menno Simons, Author (c. 1557), Leonard Verduin,
translator (1955), H. C. Wenger, editor (1955), The Complete Writings of Menno Simons,
c. 1496-1561, p 955-958, Herald Press.</span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #4a452a; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #4A452A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=25000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background2; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;">This Is a Christian Grace Before Meals, Together with a Prayer of
Thanksgiving After Meals – Intended for all Genuinely God-fearing Folk, and
Moreover Intended to Be Taught to Their Children from Childhood on, in Order
That They May Learn to Fear the Lord, May Learn to Know Him, and to Walk in His
Commandments All Their Days, to the Praise and Glory of the Lord and to the
Salvation of Their Souls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #4a452a; font-family: "Harlow Solid Italic"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #4A452A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=25000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background2; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;">Man shall not live
by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4a452a; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #4A452A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=25000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background2; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4a452a; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #4A452A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=25000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background2; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;">A CHRISTIAN GRACE BEFORE MEALS</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F2DBDB; font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-shading-themecolor: accent2; mso-shading-themetint: 51;">O</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> give thanks unto the Lord, said
David, for He is good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For His goodness
and mercy endureth forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O taste and
see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man that trusteth in Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O fear the Lord, ye His saints, for there is
no want to them that fear Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rich
He sends away empty, but they that fear the Lord shall have lack of
nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He giveth food to those that
fear Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He remembers His covenant
forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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hands; happy shalt thou be and it shall be well with thee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the
innermost part of thy house; thy children like olive plants round about thy
table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Behold, thus shall the man be
blest that feareth the Lord.</span></div>
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</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F2DBDB; font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-shading-themecolor: accent2; mso-shading-themetint: 51;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> have been young and now I am old,
says David, and have never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging
bread, even as Thou hast, O Lord, demonstrated to the children of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thou hast given them bread from heaven and
water out of the flinty rock in the wilderness forty years long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O Lord, Thou hast fed Elijah with flesh and
with bread byt eh ravens morning and evening – also by the widow of Zarephath
in that the meal did not diminish in the jar nor the oil in the cruse for a long
time, according to the word spoken by the Prophet Elijah, the Tishbite – and by
the angel of the Lord, with bread and with water under the juniper bush when he
fled before Jezebel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O Lord, Thou has
fed Daniel in the den of lions in Babylon by the angel of the Lord, and by the
Prophet Habakkuk with the victuals which he had prepared for his reapers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Habakkuk spoke saying, Daniel, Daniel, take
of the food which God has sent to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And Daniel spoke saying, And, Lord, Thou art ever mindful of me and dost
not forsake those that call upon Thee and love Thee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he rose up and ate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O Lord, Thou has so wonderfully, and
unexpectedly, and, according to the Word of the Lord spoken by Elisha the
prophet of the Lord, fed those of Samaria when the hunger was so great that the
women (by nature quite pitiful, as Lamentations has it) did sod and eat their
own children, even as at Jerusalem.</span></div>
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</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F2DBDB; font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-shading-themecolor: accent2; mso-shading-themetint: 51;">O</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Lord, Thou hast with five barley
loaves and two fishes fed about five thousand men, not counting women and
children – twelve basketfuls remaining – by the power of Thy prayer of blessing
and thanksgiving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is impossible with
men is possible with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This , Lord,
Thou Thyself hast declared.</span></div>
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</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F2DBDB; font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-shading-themecolor: accent2; mso-shading-themetint: 51;">T</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">herefore, Thou has in the Gospel
taught Thy children that fear Thee saying, Take no thought for thy life, what
ye shall eat and what ye shall drink, nor for the body what ye shall put
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is not the life more than food and
the body than raiment?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consider the
birds of the heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They sow not,
neither do they gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them
nevertheless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you not much more than
they?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which of you can add one cubit to
his stature by being careful for it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
why do you take thought for raiment?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Consider the lilies of the field how they grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They toil not, neither do they spin – I ay
unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of
these.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If God so clothe the grass of the
field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into oven, would He not much more do
such for you, O ye of little faith!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, do not be filled with care saying, What shall we eat?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, What shall we drink?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After these things do the Gentiles seek but
your Father knows that ye have need of all these things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be not therefore anxious for tomorrow, for
tomorrow will be anxious for itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is enough that every day carries it own burdens, as Christ says.</span></div>
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</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F2DBDB; font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-shading-themecolor: accent2; mso-shading-themetint: 51;">B</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ut godliness with contentment is
great gain, for we brought nothing into the world; and neither can we carry
anything out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But having food and
covering we shall be therewith content, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For God has created meat, says Paul, to be received with thanksgiving by
them that believe and know the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For every creature of God is good and nothing is to be rejected if it be
received with thanksgiving, for it is sanctified through the Word of God and
prayer.</span></div>
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</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F2DBDB; font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-shading-themecolor: accent2; mso-shading-themetint: 51;">F</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">or this reason let us pray:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be
Thy name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thy kingdom come, Thy will be
done on earth, as it is in heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give
us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our
debtors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from the evil [one], for Thine is the kingdom, and
the power, and the glory forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></div>
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behold the righteous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His ears are open
to their prayers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if there is any
lack among His people, He fill sit with every good gift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their daily bread comes to them unexpectedly
out of the hand of the Lord their God.</span></div>
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David, and all that is in them; the earth, and the fields, and all that on them
is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, humble yourselves wholly
before the mighty hand of God and fear the Lord, the Almighty God.</span></div>
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friends, together, for this food is given of God, our heavenly Father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, to Him be praise, honor, glory,
and thanksgiving from eternity to eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Amen.</span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4a452a; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #4A452A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=25000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background2; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;">A CHRISTIAN GRACE OR PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AFTER MEALS</span></b></div>
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</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F2DBDB; font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-shading-themecolor: accent2; mso-shading-themetint: 51;">W</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">e thank Thee, Lord God and Father,
Creator of heaven and earth, for all Thy good gifts which we, O Father of
lights, have received of Thee, and receive daily out of Thy liberal hand
through Jesus Christ, Thy dearly beloved Son, our Lord, Thou who has clothed
our bodies with the needed covering and hast satisfied them with the natural bread.</span></div>
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</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F2DBDB; font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-shading-themecolor: accent2; mso-shading-themetint: 51;">W</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">e pray Thee humbly, as our dearly
beloved Father, to look upon us, Thy children, persecuted for the sake of Thy
holy Gospel, and earnestly desirous in our weakness, to live devoutly in this
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be pleased to keep us in Thy Word
in fatherly fashion, in order that to the end of our days we may remain
constant in Thy Word and Gospel, revealed by Thee to the plain and simple, and
hidden to the wise ones of this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Look upon us with Thine eye of pity, as Thou didst upon the prodigal
son, upon Mary Magdalene, upon the woman of Canaan, the centurion, the thief on
the cross, Zacchaeus, and upon all those who have with tears desired Thy grace.</span></div>
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</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F2DBDB; font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-shading-themecolor: accent2; mso-shading-themetint: 51;">A</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">nd feed our souls in like fashion
with that heavenly bread, Thy holy Word, by which our poor souls may live, and
give us to drink of that living water, the Holy Spirit, who can lead us into
all truth, whom the world cannot receive because it knows Him not, nor sees
Him, even as Thou Thyself, O Lord, hast said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For the world lieth in wickedness, said John, and will perish with all
that is therein; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.</span></div>
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</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F2DBDB; font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-shading-themecolor: accent2; mso-shading-themetint: 51;">T</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">herefore we pray Thy Fatherly mercy,
with sorrowful hearts, and out of the depth of our souls, for all men, for
kings, and for all magistrates, in order that we may live a quiet and peaceful
life in all godliness and gravity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For,
said Paul, this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, who
would have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.</span></div>
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</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F2DBDB; font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-shading-themecolor: accent2; mso-shading-themetint: 51;">O</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Lord, be pleased to enlighten them
with Thy grace, those that are still in darkness and who walk in the ways of
death and err unwittingly; and receive all those who with a firm trust come to
Thee seeking Thy grace and mercy, confessing that they know not, and that
henceforth they would live after the will of God, to reform their lives, do
penance, be converted, be born again, believe the Gospel and obey it, confess
it before the world, and live it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
we pray, O holy Father, for Thy great name’s sake.</span></div>
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</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F2DBDB; font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-shading-themecolor: accent2; mso-shading-themetint: 51;">W</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">e also pray, dear Lord, especially
for all those who confess Thy holy Word aright and who seek to live according
to it in their poor weakness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be pleased
to guard them against all false doctrine and carnality of life; against the wiles
of Satan, who, according to the holy Paul, transforms himself into an angel of
light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep them also from temptation,
and from the love and friendship of this world which according to the holy
James is enmity with God, lest Thy Holy Spirit be grieved and Thy holy Gospel
be blasphemed among the foolish and the perverse.</span></div>
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</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F2DBDB; font-family: "Schwaben Alt"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-shading-themecolor: accent2; mso-shading-themetint: 51;">T</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">his we pray, O eternal Father of
lights from whom all good and perfect gifts come forth, even as James says, and
for the sake of Jesus Christ, Thy dearly beloved Son, our Lord, in whom Thou
art well pleased and at whose name every knee should bow, of things in heaven
and things on earth, and things under the earth, and before whom all tongues
must confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God His Father; and, as
the holy Paul teaches, through Him in whose name we must all be saved and of
pure grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we believe, moreover,
that there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be
saved, other than in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, even as Peter testified
before the Council at Jerusalem, to whose high and holy and altogether adorable
name be praise and honor, power and majesty, from eternity to eternity.</span></div>
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</span>As the Psalmist proclaims, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Give
Thanks to the Lord, for God is good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God’s
goodness and mercy are eternal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taste and
see that the Lord is good; blessed are those who trust in God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Good Christians, fear the Lord, for those
that fear God shall lack nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
turns away the wealthy empty-handed but those who follow God are filled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who fear God will be fed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God’s promise is guaranteed forever.</span></div>
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</span>Your labor will be rewarded with plenty; you will be happy and
content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your partner will be likewise
blessed for their efforts and labor; your children will be healthy and full of
life, strong like saplings of the olive tree, planted around your table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are the blessings that will come to the
household that fears God.</span></div>
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</span>In the Psalms, David says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I was
once young, and now I am old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
never seen a Christian forsaken by God, or a Christian family go hungry.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord, you proved yourself in this way to
ancient Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You gave them bread in
the form of manna from heaven, and from the hard rock, you gave them water to
drink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You did this for forty
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span>Lord, you met the physical needs of your servant Elijah, first by bread and
meat brought to him by ravens every morning and every evening, and then,
through the faith of the widow of Zarephath in response to the promise you gave
her through Elijah in the miracle of her jar of flour and meal that did not run
out and her cruse of oil that never ran dry as long as they were needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You also provided for Elijah through your
ministering angels who delivered bread and water to the juniper bush under
which he hid from Jezebel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span>Lord, your angel fed Daniel while in Babylon in the den of lions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord, you also provided for Daniel through
your servant Habakkuk who fed him from the meal prepared for his own
workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recognizing Daniel’s need,
Habakkuk told him <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Take and eat of this
food God has provided for you.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
praise, Daniel thanked God, saying, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lord,
You are aware of me and my needs and never forget those who pray to you in
faith and love you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Daniel ate that
meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span>Even more wonderfully and unexpectedly, Lord, you miraculously fulfilled
your promise given to them through Elijah, your prophet, and fed those of
Samaria who were so hungry that they butchered and ate their own children, just
as they had done in Jerusalem.</span></div>
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</span>Lord, with five barley loaves and two fishes, you fed about five
thousand men, not counting women and children, with twelve basketfuls of
leftovers, through the power of your prayer of blessing and thanksgiving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is as you have said, that what is impossible
with men is possible with God.</span></div>
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</span>Being God, you taught us in your Gospel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Do not worry for your life, what you will eat, what you will drink nor
what clothes you will wear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life is more
than food and your body is more than clothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Look at how the birds do not plant seeds, nor do they harvest them or build
warehouses, and yet, God feeds them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are
you not more important to God than are these birds?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which of you can change your height by
worrying about it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so why do worry
about clothing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at the lilies in the
wild, they do not work, they do not spin thread or weave cloth, but I tell you
that not Solomon had clothing as fine as do they.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If God takes such care for the appearance of
mere grasses which are there for a season and then burnt for fuel, would God
not take even better care of you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not
doubt God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not waste time worrying
about what you will eat, or what you will drink or how you will be
clothed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let the World worry about such
things, but as for you, know that God knows your needs and will provide for
them to be met.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Focus instead on the
Kingdom of God and on God’s righteousness, and God will take care of everything
you need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not worry about tomorrow
but let tomorrow worry about itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>As
Christ says</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, there are enough worries in the day.</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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</span>Replace worry with godliness and contentment, for we brought nothing
into the world, nor will be take anything out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our needs are met and be content with that
for as Paul says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God created meat to be
received with thanksgiving by those who trust God and know the Truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every creature of God is good and nothing is
to be rejected, but rather received with thanksgiving for it is made acceptable
through the Word of God and prayer.</i></span></div>
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</span>For this reason, pray this prayer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heavenly Parent, who dwells in the
Heavens, may your name be exalted and may your Kingdom be founded, your will to
be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Provide for us our daily needs and forgive us our debts of grace and
gratitude as forgive others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not let
us be distracted from your promises by the evil one, for it is Your Kingdom,
your power , and your glory, forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Amen.</i></span></div>
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</span>The Lord looks upon the Christian in love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord will hear their prayers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If anyone lacks anything, God will supply
their need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As if by miracle, their
daily bread comes to them directly from the hand of God.</span></div>
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</span>As we read in the Psalms, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The entire
Cosmos belongs to God, everything that exists, the earth, the fields and
everything in them.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So humble
yourselves before God’s greatness and trust the Lord.</span></div>
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</span>Friends, God has provided this food and drink to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enjoy this meal together and praise God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May God’s honor and glory and our
thanksgiving last forever, for all eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Amen.</span></div>
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paise and honor, power and majesty, from eternity to eternity.erusalem, to
whose hig</span> </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(arr.
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</span>Thank you, Lord, our spiritual parent and creator of Heaven and Earth, for
every good thing you have given us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Daily, we receive your blessings through the gift of Jesus Christ, your
child, our Lord, who so generously provides clothing for our nakedness and food to cure our hunger.</span></div>
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</span>Lord, we ask you to remember us, your creations, your children, who are
persecuted for following your Gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
are weak, but we strongly desire to live as faithful Christians in this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please Lord, as a loving parent, bind us to
your will so that we will remain faithful as long as we live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have revealed your Word and your Gospel
to the plain and the simple, yet it seems like foolishness to those who are
wise according to the ways of the world.</span></div>
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</span>Take pity on us with compassion, just as you did the prodigal son, Mary
Magdalene, the woman of Canaan, the centurion, the thief on the cross,
Zacchaeus, and everyone else who has come to you in tears, seeking your grace.</span></div>
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</span>Lord, our souls are hungry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Please feed them with the spiritual bread of your holy Word, that they
might receive spiritual life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord,
please let us drink of the living water, the Holy Spirit, who leads us into
truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world cannot drink this water
because you have not revealed its source to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This world is wicked and full of evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John states that this world will be
destroyed, but that the Christian who does your will live forever.</span></div>
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</span>Lord, we come to you in sorrow, begging your mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the bottom of our hearts, we pray for
the world’s rulers and for all those who enforce the will of the world’s
governments that we might live quietly and in peace, that we might live our
faith earnestly and in truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We claim
the words of Paul that you would have all persons saved and come to know the
truth of Salvation and experience the good and perfect will of God. </span></div>
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</span>Lord, in your grace, open the eyes of those who live in darkness, who remain
in spiritual death rather than life and who commit errors that they themselves
do not understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please acknowledge
everyone who comes to you in faith, seeking your grace and mercy, who were
ignorant of their error but that from now on desire to reform their lives, to repent,
to be converted, to be born again, believing the Gospel and living it as a confession
before the World.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord, we ask this so
that your name might be honored.</span></div>
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</span>Lord, we pray for those who have stated a desire to live according to your
Word, but are weak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please guard them
from false teachings and worldly temptations; and the wiles of that trickster,
Satan, who often falsely appears as light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Shield the weak from temptation and from falling in love with the world
and its delights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James tells us that
being in love with the world is to be the enemy of God, grieving the Holy
Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord, do not allow your holy
Gospel to be blasphemed by the foolish and those who scoff.</span></div>
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</span>Lord, we ask this in your name, you who from whom we receive the
spiritual light and all good and perfect gifts, and for the sake of Jesus Christ,
your beloved child, master of heaven and earth, who glorifies your will and
before whom all of us will one day appear to be judged, and in whose name we
must be saved, for there is only one grace, that of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
none other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May the name of Christ be
praised, now and forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></div>
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Total: $3,945.00<br />
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Goal: $3,000.00<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #a2c4c9;">Handmade Amish Red-work Quilt from Mrs. Miller, Staples, MN, $175.00</span></td></tr>
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<i><b>update 06 June, 2013....</b></i><br />
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<i><b>according to Adam Nafziger, the sale topped off at $4,500.00. Congratulations! </b></i></div>
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Spring 2013 followed a drought in 2012 with small floods along the legacy Mennonite territories from Chinook and Lustre - Volt, Montana along the Montana - Saskatchewan border, to the Souris River Valley between Walhalla, North Dakota and Winkler and Gretna, Manitoba, north to the great rivers feeding into Winnipeg's historic Forks.<br />
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The following are additional photographs from unusually heavy rains the second to last week of May, 2013 (<b><i>all photos (c) Rachael Traeholt, 2013</i></b>).<br />
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My frustration with the term "Anabaptism" stems as much from its use as a
political slogan in contemporary Mennonite institutional and social
power struggles as it does from its ties to a specific historical
movement that the Baptists can claim, violence and all, with as much
integrity as the peace oriented Mennonites. In point of historical fact,
we are descendents of Menno Simons' version of Anabaptism, not
Anabaptism per se. We need to face up to and respond to that reality,
not pretend that by sloganeering to the broader movement of which he was
a part we have avoided the Mennonite history that comes afterward.
Plus, Mennonite history, pitfalls and all, is who we are. It runs deep
in our bones. If someone wants to be an Anabaptist, apocalypticism,
violence, medieval anthropology and everything else that goes with it,
then I welcome them to it. But let's not pretend that was a movement of
peace or that it has more than the weakest connection to the
contemporary Mennonite life.
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<img alt="Steven Wall" class="commenter" data-li-comment-text="As I have said before, I do not understand this new Baptist claim to be connected with the Anabaptists. While there were a very few English Anabaptists, and significant interaction intellectually between English Quakers and Continental Mennonites, both the English and Scandinavian Baptists descend from completely different historical tracks than do Anabaptists. According to most authoritative church historians, the Anglo-American Baptists are actually Protestants.
Reserving the right to be wrong, especially in an area with scarce resources i.e. Minnesota, my understanding is that the Baptists were a "free church" movement that sprang from similar political and social concerns but with completely different spiritual foci. The Baptists fit in nicely with Troeltsch's historical Protestant church schematics... Anabaptists and Quakers do not, as he himself indicates.
Generally, I think we should celebrate common beliefs and learn to build bridges using those commonalities but saying that Baptists are Anabaptist because we share an adult baptism is no more pertinent than to claim that Anabaptists are Maronite Catholics because we encourage a married clergy.
On the other hand, I have watched many Mennonite churches being covertly converted to Protestant Baptism by merely celebrating those things which we believe and practice in common while ignoring the important, essential differences between our faiths and practices... especially in the areas of the priesthood of the believer, pacifist ministry, discipleship, communitarian mutuality, foot washing and the separation of church and state.
I think that the practice of hiring Baptist clergy to fill our pulpits has in general been a great mistake, not because we are being led astray by fellowshipping with the Baptists but because we are often seemingly allowing them to dominate us while we are generally forgetting who we are and our own unique witness to the world.
If our fate is to join the state church movement of Luther and Calvin, we might as well forget Dordrecht entirely and burn the Martyrs Mirror. May those who enjoy music join the Lutherans and those who seek power, join the Fundamentalists.
Obviously, I see many of our internal Mennonite struggles today not so much as internal dialogues but rather the result of American pressures to assimilate and join the Protestants as either high church intellectuals or low church Fundamentalists... neither of which is completely contrary to Anabaptism per se but neither of which is Anabaptist either.
I guess in the end, I ponder the question as to why Baptists want to be us... but wonder if the deeper question is why we seem to be so uncomfortable to ourselves be whom we have been called by Christ to be -- that is, to be ourselves as Anabaptists. Are Baptists trying to be us while we are secretly wanting to assimilate and be Baptists (or Lutherans)?" data-li-edit-sec-left="900" data-li-editable="true" data-li-time="" height="80" src="http://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrink_80_80/p/1/000/213/28e/2209121.jpg" width="80" />
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<span class="comment-body" data-li-comment-text="As I have said before, I do not understand this new Baptist claim to be connected with the Anabaptists. While there were a very few English Anabaptists, and significant interaction intellectually between English Quakers and Continental Mennonites, both the English and Scandinavian Baptists descend from completely different historical tracks than do Anabaptists. According to most authoritative church historians, the Anglo-American Baptists are actually Protestants.
Reserving the right to be wrong, especially in an area with scarce resources i.e. Minnesota, my understanding is that the Baptists were a "free church" movement that sprang from similar political and social concerns but with completely different spiritual foci. The Baptists fit in nicely with Troeltsch's historical Protestant church schematics... Anabaptists and Quakers do not, as he himself indicates.
Generally, I think we should celebrate common beliefs and learn to build bridges using those commonalities but saying that Baptists are Anabaptist because we share an adult baptism is no more pertinent than to claim that Anabaptists are Maronite Catholics because we encourage a married clergy.
On the other hand, I have watched many Mennonite churches being covertly converted to Protestant Baptism by merely celebrating those things which we believe and practice in common while ignoring the important, essential differences between our faiths and practices... especially in the areas of the priesthood of the believer, pacifist ministry, discipleship, communitarian mutuality, foot washing and the separation of church and state.
I think that the practice of hiring Baptist clergy to fill our pulpits has in general been a great mistake, not because we are being led astray by fellowshipping with the Baptists but because we are often seemingly allowing them to dominate us while we are generally forgetting who we are and our own unique witness to the world.
If our fate is to join the state church movement of Luther and Calvin, we might as well forget Dordrecht entirely and burn the Martyrs Mirror. May those who enjoy music join the Lutherans and those who seek power, join the Fundamentalists.
Obviously, I see many of our internal Mennonite struggles today not so much as internal dialogues but rather the result of American pressures to assimilate and join the Protestants as either high church intellectuals or low church Fundamentalists... neither of which is completely contrary to Anabaptism per se but neither of which is Anabaptist either.
I guess in the end, I ponder the question as to why Baptists want to be us... but wonder if the deeper question is why we seem to be so uncomfortable to ourselves be whom we have been called by Christ to be -- that is, to be ourselves as Anabaptists. Are Baptists trying to be us while we are secretly wanting to assimilate and be Baptists (or Lutherans)?">
As I have said before, I do not understand this new Baptist claim to be
connected with the Anabaptists. While there were a very few English
Anabaptists, and significant interaction intellectually between English
Quakers and Continental Mennonites, both the English and Scandinavian
Baptists descend from completely different historical tracks than do
Anabaptists. According to most authoritative church historians, the
Anglo-American Baptists are actually Protestants.
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Reserving the right to be wrong, especially in an area with scarce
resources i.e. Minnesota, my understanding is that the Baptists were a
"free church" movement that sprang from similar political and social
concerns but with completely different spiritual foci. The Baptists fit
in nicely with Troeltsch's historical Protestant church schematics...
Anabaptists and Quakers do not, as he himself indicates.
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Generally, I think we should celebrate common beliefs and learn to build
bridges using those commonalities but saying that Baptists are
Anabaptist because we share an adult baptism is no more pertinent than
to claim that Anabaptists are Maronite Catholics because we encourage a
married clergy.
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On the other hand, I have watched many Mennonite churches being covertly
converted to Protestant Baptism by merely celebrating those things
which we believe and practice in common while ignoring the important,
essential differences between our faiths and practices... especially in
the areas of the priesthood of the believer, pacifist ministry,
discipleship, communitarian mutuality, foot washing and the separation
of church and state.
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I think that the practice of hiring Baptist clergy to fill our pulpits
has in general been a great mistake, not because we are being led astray
by fellowshipping with the Baptists but because we are often seemingly
allowing them to dominate us while we are generally forgetting who we
are and our own unique witness to the world.
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If our fate is to join the state church movement of Luther and Calvin,
we might as well forget Dordrecht entirely and burn the Martyrs Mirror.
May those who enjoy music join the Lutherans and those who seek power,
join the Fundamentalists.
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Obviously, I see many of our internal Mennonite struggles today not so
much as internal dialogues but rather the result of American pressures
to assimilate and join the Protestants as either high church
intellectuals or low church Fundamentalists... neither of which is
completely contrary to Anabaptism per se but neither of which is
Anabaptist either.
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I guess in the end, I ponder the question as to why Baptists want to be
us... but wonder if the deeper question is why we seem to be so
uncomfortable to ourselves be whom we have been called by Christ to be
-- that is, to be ourselves as Anabaptists. Are Baptists trying to be
us while we are secretly wanting to assimilate and be Baptists (or
Lutherans)?<br />
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<span class="comment-body" data-li-comment-text="As I have said before, I do not understand this new Baptist claim to be connected with the Anabaptists. While there were a very few English Anabaptists, and significant interaction intellectually between English Quakers and Continental Mennonites, both the English and Scandinavian Baptists descend from completely different historical tracks than do Anabaptists. According to most authoritative church historians, the Anglo-American Baptists are actually Protestants.
Reserving the right to be wrong, especially in an area with scarce resources i.e. Minnesota, my understanding is that the Baptists were a "free church" movement that sprang from similar political and social concerns but with completely different spiritual foci. The Baptists fit in nicely with Troeltsch's historical Protestant church schematics... Anabaptists and Quakers do not, as he himself indicates.
Generally, I think we should celebrate common beliefs and learn to build bridges using those commonalities but saying that Baptists are Anabaptist because we share an adult baptism is no more pertinent than to claim that Anabaptists are Maronite Catholics because we encourage a married clergy.
On the other hand, I have watched many Mennonite churches being covertly converted to Protestant Baptism by merely celebrating those things which we believe and practice in common while ignoring the important, essential differences between our faiths and practices... especially in the areas of the priesthood of the believer, pacifist ministry, discipleship, communitarian mutuality, foot washing and the separation of church and state.
I think that the practice of hiring Baptist clergy to fill our pulpits has in general been a great mistake, not because we are being led astray by fellowshipping with the Baptists but because we are often seemingly allowing them to dominate us while we are generally forgetting who we are and our own unique witness to the world.
If our fate is to join the state church movement of Luther and Calvin, we might as well forget Dordrecht entirely and burn the Martyrs Mirror. May those who enjoy music join the Lutherans and those who seek power, join the Fundamentalists.
Obviously, I see many of our internal Mennonite struggles today not so much as internal dialogues but rather the result of American pressures to assimilate and join the Protestants as either high church intellectuals or low church Fundamentalists... neither of which is completely contrary to Anabaptism per se but neither of which is Anabaptist either.
I guess in the end, I ponder the question as to why Baptists want to be us... but wonder if the deeper question is why we seem to be so uncomfortable to ourselves be whom we have been called by Christ to be -- that is, to be ourselves as Anabaptists. Are Baptists trying to be us while we are secretly wanting to assimilate and be Baptists (or Lutherans)?"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Only a boy named Daud (make a small
person with hands)<br />
Only a little sling (swing arm around at ear)<br />
Only a boy named Daud (make a small person with hands)<br />
But he did pray and sing (pray with hands and then raise hands into air)<br />
Only a boy named Daud (make a small person with hands)<br />
Only a rippling brook (move fingers like playing a piano)<br />
Only a boy named Daud (make a small person with hands)<br />
But five little stones he took (show five fingers)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And one little stone went in the sling (take one hand into
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And the sling went round and round (swing arm around at ear)<br />
And one little stone went in the sling<br />
And the sling went round and round (swing arm around at ear)<br />
And round and round<br />
And round and round<br />
And round and round and round!<br />
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<span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>42 </sup>The soldier looked Daud over and saw that he was little more than a boy, glowing with
health and handsome, and he despised him.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <span class="text"><sup>43 </sup>He said to Daud, “Am I a dog,
that you come at me with sticks?” And the soldier cursed Daud by his gods.</span>
<span class="text"><sup>44 </sup>“Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your
flesh to the birds and the wild animals!”</span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>courtesy The Guardian</i></span></td></tr>
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<span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>45 </sup>Daud said to the soldier, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come
against you in the name of the </i></span><span class="small-caps"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></i></span><span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Almighty, the God of the
armies of Israel, whom you have defied.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <span class="text"><sup>46 </sup>This day the </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="text"> will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut
off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the soldier's army
to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is
a God in Israel.</span> <span class="text"><sup>47 </sup>All those gathered
here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="text"> saves; for the battle is the </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="text">’s, and he
will give all of you into our hands</span></i><span class="text">.”</span><i><span class="text 1Sam-17-48" id="en-NIV-7667"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span></i><br />
<i><span class="text 1Sam-17-48" id="en-NIV-7667"><sup class="versenum">48 </sup>As the soldier moved closer to attack him, Daud ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.</span> <span class="text 1Sam-17-49" id="en-NIV-7668"><sup class="versenum">49 </sup>Reaching
into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the soldier on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he
fell facedown on the ground.</span></i><sup class="versenum"> </sup><br />
<sup class="versenum">5<i>0 </i></sup><i>So Daud triumphed over the soldier with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the soldier... (1 Samuel 17:42-50, based on NIV)</i><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417380932123682577.post-10295928485008686882013-05-07T10:36:00.000-07:002013-05-16T20:13:45.254-07:00Coming to Terms<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Mennonitas learning Spanish, courtesy Excelsior News.</span></td></tr>
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<![endif]--><b><i><span style="color: #403152; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Ne Sproak School</span></i></b> </span> </span></div>
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<i>(from Excelsior News)</i> </div>
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<br /></div>
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It seems that Mexico’s Mennonites, many of
whom left Canada due in part to language assimilation pressures in the public schools,
have finally decided to come to terms with this past… coming terms in Spanish.</div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At a time when speculations rests regarding
the future of Mennonites in Mexico, Excelsior News reports that Chihuahua’s
Mennonites are now enrolling in Mexico’s public school programs in order to learn
Spanish.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Excelsior indicates that over one hundred
Mennonites have enrolled in primary and secondary school programming through
Chihuahua Institute of Adult Education (ICHEA).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mennonites are feeling the need to learn
Spanish in order to obtain official identification papers for passports and to
establish business and bank accounts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, it seems that Spanish is also being
used increasingly to communicate with non-Mennonite employees, encouraging
these employees also to learn formal Spanish and to complete their education in
order to facilitate friendships, business connections and the ability to
communicate.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Excelsior indicates that Mennonites began
attending ICHEA courses in 2012, beginning with a group of about 20 farmwives
and shortly including several couples and Mennonite school teachers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though mostly Mennonite women are studying
Spanish with fewer men.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daicy
Mauricio Gallegos, a volunteer teacher, describes her students as follows, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Son muy metódicos, les gusta estudiar a
conciencia libro por libro; saben leer y escribir, pero como no dominan el español,
tienen dificultades para entender las preguntas de los exámenes, así que
decidieron estudiar desde el nivel inicial (alfabetización)</i>.” (Excelsior,
see link).</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Mennonite students are very methodical, and conscientiously study their
books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can both read and write but
are not as fluent when speaking Spanish and often have difficulty understanding
the test questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this reason, I
start them at the basic level.”</i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In reading this story, one can help but be
amused at the turn of events whereby so many of us have volunteered to help
teach Mexican immigrant families English and how test questions seem to be especially
difficult to comprehend / translate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps the world is not so large after all.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2013/04/30/896653">http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2013/04/30/896653</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bolivian Treasury official, Griselda Pastén
Cladia Alarcon, was taken into custody by Bolivian police today and charged
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Impacted settlements include the Manitoba
settlement and Stones II, both located in San José de Chiquitos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to prosecutor, Angel Alvarez, charges
include aggravated fraud, material misrepresentation, falsification, forgery
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As legal adviser to the National Institute
of Agrarian Reform (INRA), Pastén charged the Mennonites $800,000 to consolidate,
clear title and transfer 20,000 hectares (about 50,000 acres or 77 square
miles) of state owned land.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the documents forwarded to
national lawmakers in the Bolivian House of Representatives, Pastén seems to
have charged for illegal and unnecessary fees and forging President Evo Morales’
signature on two land titles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Included in
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Claudia Griselda Pastén trabajando en la Dirección Jurídica del INRA nacional
visita la ciudad de Santa Cruz y sonsaca en varias oportunidades a dos colonias
menonitas, Manitoba y La Piedras alrededor de 450 mil dólares para saneamiento
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In an era of Internet searches, digital
genealogies, on-line networks, Facebook and other social media, inter-personal networks
and constructed identities are the name of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some reason, we do not seem to like to
name this process or reality as such.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite
not wanting to admit that we still label, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we make constant grouping and identity decisions
ranging from who is friend, acquaintance or family, to who has immediate access
to one’s daily experiences and thoughts, to who might interact with us at work,
who is church and who is blocked.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amongst Anabaptists, one of the more
compelling problems is that of definitions and groupings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two sides in the former Evangelical
versus non-Evangelical divide have diverged greatly since the 1950s and even
more so since the 1980s, but technology is bringing us together once more</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oddly, a certain cultural affinity, and thankfully,
toleration, continue to exist between the various identities within the greater
Mennonite diaspora.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Der Unza” remains a
principle of assistance, mutual affection and inter-personal kindness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not insignificantly, those who still abide by
“der Unza” seemingly tend to apply the same principles of kindness and care to
most persons, regardless of ethnic status or church affiliation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a strong commendation for this traditional
Mennonite principle of networking.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But our once common language has diverged
to the point that communication is really not that simple.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A recent conversation considered the relationship
between the Mennonite Brethren (MB) and the Mennonites Church (MC-USA).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While individual members still inter-relate
and associate with each other as fellow Mennonites, it is difficult to
determine the actual extent of institutional interaction and dialogue on the
cultural, church or academic levels.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One might clearly discern a common and living
ethnic identity in which both communities participate, but as for common ideals
and theology, one is a bit more perplexed.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for the Evangelicals, well, it often
seems that they might as well be Amish for their ability to participate in
conversations with either side on anything more complicated than the basic exchange of verenika recipes.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The greatest issue is that of dialogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to understand who we are, we also
have to understand who and what we are not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This involves discovering definitions and developing identity models
that often include some while excluding others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is appropriately somewhat controversial.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, one must honestly inquire as to the
extent that such discomfort emanates not from the act of being named, but
rather from the uncovering and bringing back to life dust-covered,
half-forgotten debates and ideological dialogues that were often simply abandoned
and later ignored rather than being resolved, as various sides moved on to more
pressing and more compelling issues and pursuits.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But such things still comprise the building
blocks and detritus of identity, both of the group and the individual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What we once thought could be merely
overlooked or ignored, has failed to fully disappear or go away.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we struggle to understand ourselves and
to communicate our own identities to others, we must of necessity access these
older dialogues and resurrect former ideologies and even conflicts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But with the bad comes so much more good
that extends well beyond successful and healthy identity formation and
maintenance. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We celebrate a common heritage in the 100
year anniversary of AIMM in the Congo, the continued success and impact of the
MCC and MDS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The majority of our schools
are still in operation, though a few are no longer as identifiably “Mennonite.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our folk tongues are distressed but not yet
extinct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We still remember from whence
we have come and the faith that enabled our ancestors to face all things with
courage and unity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is so much to
share, so much that continues to unite us.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So as we dig into the past of our
Anabaptist identity, we need not push for a new unity or re-establishment, but
we must recognize that former dialogues have not truly ended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this challenge is for the better as we
continue to impact each other and to celebrate the great diversity of these
expressions of faith and culture. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In an era of networking, we have the model
of Mennonite Your Way (though greatly changed), of the old conferences, of der
unza, the Name Game and so many ties that we ought to have a strategic
advantage in today’s networking culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How we approach this opportunity is up to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learning to relate and dialogue cautiously,
but with open minds would be the most traditionally authentic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But before we get there, we still have to
deal with definitions, labels and groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But that is who we are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a
challenge, but it did not defeat our ancestors, it need not discourage us.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The technology of networking and grouping has
changed greatly in the last fifty years, as has our uses of and attitudes
towards networks, groups and communal links.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, technology is perhaps handing us a second chance to resurrect
ties once abandoned by the proceeding generation to once again link and network
with each other.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The results of this second chance and of these
new networking opportunities have yet to be known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These results will most likely be varied and
unique to each individual relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To make the most of this second chance, we will, however, have to
confront the pain and tedium of defining and labeling and of discovering both
former ties and former breaks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
hopefully we are more mature and wizened as a culture and are now able to
disagree while accepting diversity and able to build a community within which
each individual remains free to define ties and identities positively for her
or himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a wonderful heritage of ties, networks
and community to pass on to the next generation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it will take a bit of tolerance and a
lot of work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thankfully, increasingly,
more and more of us are seemingly willing to take on the challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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