Re: What's the right answer for seekers?
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 12:14 am
This is a definite challenge for NMB who are of other races or other ethnic groups.Hats Off wrote:i think all of our NMB are married, almost all to MB.
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This is a definite challenge for NMB who are of other races or other ethnic groups.Hats Off wrote:i think all of our NMB are married, almost all to MB.
I would add York, PA's Tidings of Peace Menn. Church to this description, which is also within driving distance of Baltimore, commute-wise. They would be delighted for any seekers to move there and the cost of living there is cheap.Ernie wrote:If a seeker is willing to move, is willing to become Mennonite, and is willing to be discipled into the conservative Mennonite way of thinking about the Christian life, I would recommend they check with Fairview Mennonite Church in Reading, PA. The last I knew Fairview is open to people moving there to be a part of that church. It is a good size church (134 members) and has a good school that is open to anyone (not just Anabaptists) who are willing to embrace the school vision and guidelines. The church has a number of folks from non-Anabaptist background.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fairview ... 5985363002
If a seeker is not interested in becoming Mennonite but wants a "pilgrim church", they could visit Followers of the Way in Boston and see if that church is the flavor they are looking for.
http://www.followers-of-the-way.org/
If work in Baltimore is what you are going to do, you don't have to drive, Hampden Mennonite, a Keystone church is right in town, and is quite seeker friendly.YorkandAdams wrote:Just to add on to Josh's comment, York County, PA has several different conservative anabaptist denominations within driving distance to Baltimore for work. Mid-ATL, Hope, Keystone, CCYandAC, Dunkards, and Conservative COB. Or you could move to the homeland (Lancaster) for even more variety.
I agree. Assuming you are not looking for a church that is free from things like materialism, an interest in professional sports, and gradual acculturation.Judas Maccabeus wrote: In general, if you are interested in a Mennonite church, and are NMB, I would suggest that Keystone is a very good choice in general.
J.M.
Ernie wrote:I agree. Assuming you are not looking for a church that is free from things like materialism, an interest in professional sports, and gradual acculturation. Some seekers are disappointed, whenever they were trying to get away from these things by joining the Mennonites.Judas Maccabeus wrote: In general, if you are interested in a Mennonite church, and are NMB, I would suggest that Keystone is a very good choice in general.
J.M.
My experience with Keystone is limited to Bradford, Reading, and York, but these congregations seem surprisingly stable. In the case of York, I haven't observed much change since the break from Lancaster Conference. I would also not describe York as a place where people talk about professional sports much at all, and generally materialism is not in vogue there either (probably due to living in a pretty run down urban area).Ernie wrote:I agree. Assuming you are not looking for a church that is free from things like materialism, an interest in professional sports, and gradual acculturation.Judas Maccabeus wrote: In general, if you are interested in a Mennonite church, and are NMB, I would suggest that Keystone is a very good choice in general.
J.M.
Yes, those three city churches are unique.Josh wrote:My experience with Keystone is limited to Bradford, Reading, and York, but these congregations seem surprisingly stable. In the case of York, I haven't observed much change since the break from Lancaster Conference. I would also not describe York as a place where people talk about professional sports much at all, and generally materialism is not in vogue there either (probably due to living in a pretty run down urban area).Ernie wrote:I agree. Assuming you are not looking for a church that is free from things like materialism, an interest in professional sports, and gradual acculturation.Judas Maccabeus wrote: In general, if you are interested in a Mennonite church, and are NMB, I would suggest that Keystone is a very good choice in general.
J.M.
Perhaps this is due to the unique leadership York has?
Clayton Shenk runs the show over at tiding of peace in York, PA. A good man who is really decicaded to urban missions and teaching (I think he teaches at SMBI during a term). Anyway being from York, PA myself, I can attest that they have really made an impact on the local community in the area. The school is almost entirely NMB students with MB teachers and is located in a run down city. They are actually buying a new school building now as there school was getting too full! A tremendous testimony to the work that they are doing and the witness they are provideing in an area where almost all of the mennonite churchs refused to go.Josh wrote:My experience with Keystone is limited to Bradford, Reading, and York, but these congregations seem surprisingly stable. In the case of York, I haven't observed much change since the break from Lancaster Conference. I would also not describe York as a place where people talk about professional sports much at all, and generally materialism is not in vogue there either (probably due to living in a pretty run down urban area).Ernie wrote:I agree. Assuming you are not looking for a church that is free from things like materialism, an interest in professional sports, and gradual acculturation.Judas Maccabeus wrote: In general, if you are interested in a Mennonite church, and are NMB, I would suggest that Keystone is a very good choice in general.
J.M.
Perhaps this is due to the unique leadership York has?