Mennonites love good food and good company, and Harrisonburg Mennonite Church (HMC) is no exception. For the last three years at HMC, a gardening initiative…
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Assembly Mennonite Offers Bike Blessing
On a Sunday in May, Assembly Mennonite Church in Goshen, Ind., celebrates Creation Care Day by encouraging everyone to bike, walk or carpool to worship….
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Berea Mennonite Farms Three Acres
“Before we dug up the church yard and planted potatoes, I don’t think people even knew we were here,” John Wierwille, pastor of Berea…
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Mennonite Church of Normal:
Rain Garden Promotes Wonder, Curbs Polution
Zipping and fluttering in the air against a backdrop of wildflowers, hummingbirds and dozens of species of dragonflies and butterflies have come to inhabit the native prairie rain garden at the Mennonite Church of Normal. An existing 1700 sq ft turf drainage swale adjacent to the church parking lot was converted to a rain garden in order to increase landscape biodiversity, enhance the swale’s ability to filter stormwater runoff and to promote curiosity and wonderment in children of the congregation and the surrounding neighborhood. Read more and see photos
Menno/Muslim Garden Grows Food and Relationships
by Patrick Maxwell, MCCN staff intern A garden situated between a Mosque and a Mennonite church in Champaign, Ill., is growing more than produce—it’s also…
Read moreFor in [Christ] all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
Colossians 1:19 - 20