Pastoral care on Facebook?
By Anna Groff  Pastor Jennifer Gingerich decided to conduct a type of Facebook experiment. She started as interim pastoral team member in August 2012 at Assembly Mennonite Church in Goshen, Ind.
Prior to this position, she did not use Facebook frequently. However, she soon discovered that a lot of Assembly Church members post pastoral concerns as Facebook status updates, especially with the number of losses and transition in the congregation ...
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Savoring the Scene: The Lord's Supper in the form of beer
By Jo-Ann Brant, blogger for Goshen Commons
I am in the grips of a cold and thought about passing on writing an entry this week, but writing this blog is a respite from life as usual. It is redeemed time: time to write for the joy of writing. Therefore, I find it appropriate to write about a film that tells the story of time that is saved from the monotony of life as it is and turned into time as it should be. I write of Shawshank Redemption (1994, dir. Frank Darabont) ...
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This originally appeared on the Goshen Commons blog.
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Pigs arrive safely in Catel
By Nita Landis of Eastern Mennonite Missions
On March 15, fifteen eagerly anticipated piglets arrived in Catel, where they should provide income that will improve very limited family diets. Three men will each receive five pigs-four female and one male. Each of the men has made his own cement bricks and has built or is building a six-pen pig barn ...  Read more ...
Photo: One recipient pauses for a photo while helping to carry the pigs to their new home in Lona's pig barn. Photo by Beryl Forrester.
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College Corner: Students see and feel the results of their work
By Melanie Zuercher of Bethel College
Spring break for Bethel College, North Newton, Kan., students ranged from choir tour to Florida beach. For one group, it meant learning carpentry skills, playing a lot of Catch Phrase, and a marriage proposal ...
Photo: From left, Bethel College students Emily Simpson, Melinda Regehr and Jesse Voth-Gaeddert work on flooring during their spring break service trip with Mennonite Disaster Service in Joplin, Mo. Photo by Michael Bowman.
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Tim's blog: The yuckiness of the cross and sexualized violence
As I attempt to focus on the death of Jesus today, on Good Friday, I find it difficult. I'd rather check Facebook, read a magazine or stare out the window. Tonight there's a church service that I'll go to, but for now the ugly reality of death and violence feels far away.
What happens if I look more closely at that aversion: that sense of yuckiness? Recently, Rachel Harder of Our Stories Untold, shared with me a story that got me thinking about this in a different way. Rachel is a survivor of sexual abuse who has become an speaker and organizer ...
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