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With Sharp Shopper right across the street, competition must be fierce. Is Sharp Shopper Mennonite owned? I only see them in areas with a large plain population. Not that I know of. They seem to pop up in Mennonite areas, Harrisonburg, Lancaster county, Belleville. Coincidence? I think they probabl...

I believe in treating people with courtesy and respect including those that I fundamentally disagree with. For example in this thread Josh and Bootstrap are in marriages that I could not accept as legitimate due to my religious beliefs, but I hope both of them could say that over the years that we h...

Old appliance stores here basically close when the owner retires. A guy in church who did appliance repair got to know a few of them and took over phone numbers/customer lists as the old owner didn't want to keep doing service calls. If you want to start your own business, appliance repair appears ...

My affiliation, Hope Mennonite Fellowship, bills itself as a "fellowship" as opposed to being a conference. However from what I can tell we operate precisely the way a conference would. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong. The formal leadership structure works like this. Conference decisio...

ohio jones wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:38 pm

silentreader wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:29 pm Hmmm.... according to the picture he's teaching immersion.

Actually the believer hasn't got wet yet, and the one being immersed is still unregenerate.

and the spectator is like

I'm sure Grace will be along soon to add to this. A few coworkers have family and friends that work there and they got an email yesterday stating they are not rebuilding. Back in the day, they had three stores. Now they have none. No surprise. I was just by there the other day and it looks like at ...

Link to part 2 - didn't catch this live, but I plan to watch it soon.

I'm sure Grace will be along soon to add to this. A few coworkers have family and friends that work there and they got an email yesterday stating they are not rebuilding. Back in the day, they had three stores. Now they have none. No surprise. I was just by there the other day and it looks like at ...

Martins Appliance is slowly falling out of favor in our area, for a variety of reasons. Quite a few smaller operations have sprung up since the pandemic and they seem to be doing well. They have a new store in our area (30 min away) and it's doing well. Ditto their water treatment business. (At lea...

The only trans or gay persons I have had much contact with have been employees, and in each case they lasted such a short time on the job due to issues unrelated to sexuality that I barely got to know them at all. I believe in treating trans persons professionally in the workplace and even in terms ...