I gave a short meditation during a worship service for our Virginia Mennonite Conference summer assembly: “Jesus is our peace.” They asked me to share about Jesus’ beatitude on peacemaking from Matthew 5: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” Below is what I came up with.
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Isaac S. Villegas
VMC Assembly
July [...]

Mennonite Church USA Delegate Assembly 2009
Report by Ryan Koch, Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship
July 7th, 2009
Tom, Isaac, and I arrived in Columbus on Tuesday afternoon just in time for evening worship which inaugurated the conference. A few details about the conference: all together nearly 7500 individuals attended. The total number of delegates was around 850.
Wednesday delegate [...]

Title: Desire
Date: July 12, 2009
Texts: 2 Sam 6:1-5, 12b-19; Mk 6:14-29
Author: Isaac Villegas

Lord of life, lead us into your grace and truth. Give us eyes to see the truth about ourselves, and the grace to not run away from what we see, but receive your new life. Amen.
Sometimes the truth stinks. It’s not pleasant. That [...]

Title: Weakness and Perseverance
Texts: Mk 6:1-13, 2 Cor 12:2-10
Date: July 5th, 2009
Author: Dave Nickel
1.     The church we attended in Phoenix had a “mentoring” program.  Through this program, I was asked to mentor a high school student named Dan. I agreed to try, but I didn’t know what it meant to “mentor.” I supposed Dan [...]