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Atlantic Coast Conference Fall Annual Assembly Celebration weekend, October 25-26, 2013, Akron Mennonite Church, 1311 Diamond Street, Akron, Pa.

Leadership Resource Day, Friday, October 25, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, two tracks of study:

Healthy Congregations led by Richard Blackburn from the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center

Restorative Justice Practices co-presented by Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz and Jim Amstutz.

Fall Assembly Celebration, Saturday, October 26, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Theme: God's Power at Work based on Ephesians 3:14-21, Nancy Kauffmann, preacher.

Mennonite Women and Mennonite Men Dinners, Friday, October 25, 6:30 PM at Ridgeview Mennonite Church, 3723 Ridge Road, Gordonville, Pa. Registration opens at 6:00 PM

Registration and further information for each of these events is available at http://www.atlanticcoastconference.net, or call the ACC office, 717-394-8107, or email: office@atlanticcoastconference.net. 

Lancaster Mennonite School thanks you for sharing your students with us. We are grateful and honored to be partners with you as families and as a church in the nurturing of your students. We welcome you at any of our campuses at any time. Thank you for your ongoing prayers and financial support of LMS as a missional center of God's kingdom mission here on earth.

Eastern Mennonite Missions Commissioning: Join Eastern Mennonite Missions as we commission our YES and GO! participants to share God's love where the church is not yet on Sunday, September 8, 7 p.m. at Landis Valley Christian Fellowship, Lancaster, Pa., emm.org/events or 717-898-2251.

Residents, team members and volunteers at Landis Homes are hard at work preparing for another exciting Fellowship Day with a Benefit Auction, Chicken BBQ, and children's activities. Don't miss your chance to bid on original artwork, quilts, unique handcrafts, antiques and collectibles and more! Festivities begin at 8:00 AM, Saturday, Sept. 14th. For more information, go to http://www.landishomes.org/Home/Information/Events/Fellowship Day 2013.

Steeple View Lofts, a rental community for persons age 55+, is holding the building's Grand Opening on Friday, Sept. 13th. The event will start with a ribbon cutting at 3:00 PM and continue to 8:00 PM. In addition to the residential lofts, the building also houses Miesse Candies and Friendship Heart Gallery (a program of Friendship Community). Steeple View Lofts is part of Landis Communities, a conference related ministry of Atlantic Coast Conference. For more information, go to www.steepleviewlofts.com.

Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Service at Akron Mennonite Church, September 29, 10:30 AM, "From Death and Killing to Healing and Reconciliation: A Story of Miracles", and at Lititz Church of the Brethren, 6:30 PM, "Peace Building After Genocide in Burundi", first person true story by David Niyonzima from experience in Burundi, Africa. The public is invited to both presentations.

End-of-Life Planning Seminar, October 11-12, Everence and Akron Mennonite's End-of-Life Planning Team are collaborating to host a pilot introduction for others interested in learning more about the model that Akron Mennonite Church has put in place. Designed for individuals from congregations that are serious about making this a part of the overall ministry to their members. It will be a two-day, intensive, introductory workshop. At least two but no more than four people from each congregation should attend. Register by September 6. Contact Beryl Jantzi for more information: 800-442-7930 or beryl.jantzi@everence.com.

The Lancaster Christian Council on Disability (of which Friendship Community is a member) and Joni & Friends Eastern PA are hosting a Disability Ministry Summit on Saturday October 19, 2013 at Calvary Church in Lancaster. The summit is designed to educate and train local churches for disability ministries. More information and registration is available at http://www.joniandfriends.org/church-relations/northeast-ttr-summit/. Please note that there is a cost to attend this event - discount registration up to Oct. 1. Churches are encouraged to send groups of 4 or more which will also reduce the cost per person. Lunch is included in the registration fee.

SAVE THE SATURDAYS of November 9 and 16, 2013, for Nonviolence Training Sessions - intensive experiential workshops giving participants a comprehensive introduction to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy and strategy of nonviolence at the Akron Mennonite Church.  These workshops, sponsored by www.1040forPeace.org, will be facilitated by Tarek Abuata of Washington, DC, a nonviolence trainer who is also Christian Peacemaker Teams' Coordinator for Palestine.