Congregational Stories

        This is a week of whiplash. Typical Americans will spend one day in thankfulness for all the goodness of life and before the sun sets, will begin a day of unprecedented consumer spending. Thanksgiving Day followed by Black Friday. As followers of Jesus this is an opportunity to model a different […]

“You are the Salt of the earth…You are the Light of the world…” This church year, Pleasant Valley Mennonite Church has chosen to follow the words of Matthew 5:13-16 as their theme. With this as the theme, a specific challenge has been for church to get to know the neighbors within their neighborhood, and to […]

     Casey Nisly was commissioned as a Youth Pastor at Journey Mennonite Church, South Hutchinson, KS on Sunday, September 30. Casey was a part of the youth group at South Hutch, went off to college, and has been volunteering with Journey Youth for the last couple years. Her hope is to help teenagers discover […]

Eden Life Church has been having three different services each Sunday in three different languages.  Recently, they have added a fourth service for people who want to worship in French and Swahili.  Many of the people who are part of this group are originally from the Republic of Congo and they have been meeting together […]

For about 30 years, Whitestone Mennonite Church has conducted a Wednesday evening program called WOW (for Whitestone on Wednesday), geared to Kindergarten through 5th grade.  JYF and MYF met at the same time but with different programming. Beginning September 12, this event will be renamed Connect, designed to be intergenerational in nature.  After a meal together, all ages will gather for worship, followed […]

August 25 and 26, Pleasant View Mennonite Church of Hydro Oklahoma hosted a marriage enrichment event for their congregation and members of the local community featuring “The aMayzing Marriage Roadshow” with Richard and JeannaLynn May.  For 15 years, Richard and JeannaLynn suffered through a loveless marriage.  Then on the brink of divorce, God gave them […]

Peace Mennonite Community Church, Aurora, CO was received as a member of South Central Conference at Assembly on July 21, 2018. Here’s their story: Peace Mennonite Church was planted 30 years ago, meeting in a community center for a number of years before purchasing property. With the help of many, many generous people from across […]

Iglesia Menonita Alfa y Omega has just finished their first VBS. It was a great event. There were about 18 children that came all week from 9 AM to 12 PM Monday through Friday. Pastor Maira Hernandez from the Rey de Gloria Mennonite church and the youth were on hand to help them and used […]

Journey Mennonite is spending the month of June in a series on Neighboring! As a way to encourage the congregation to cultivate relationships with their neighbors, they purchased 250 boxes of brownie mix and gave them away in their worship gatherings. The idea was for Journeyers to bake the brownies and take them to their neighbors […]