Isaac took a recent trip to Boonsboro, MD, and spent a week with Mt. Zion Mennonite Church. Here’s an excerpt from the reflection he wrote for the Mennonite Weekly Review: From the window of the nursery I can see the cemetery that stretches across the hill alongside the church — a field planted with rectangular [...]

Title: Renting Date: July 18, 2010 Texts: Num 9:15-23, Jer 29:4-9, 1 Pet 2:9-12 Author: Isaac S. Villegas We are wanders—all of us. Most of us did not grew up here in North Carolina. Even if we did, our ancestors didn’t. We live in a foreign land. I’ve been here for seven years, and I’m [...]

Title: Oh that, would that, if only… Text: 2 Kings 5:1-14 Date: July 4, 2010 Author: Catherine Thiel Lee Our story tonight comes from 2 Kings and it is about a man named Naaman. Naaman is a “great man.” Hebrew narrators are usually sparse, even terse with their descriptions. But here the narrator goes on [...]