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"I think that we are lucky if we have a house with four rooms, a house without a dirt floor, and a house with running water."

"The only thing I really want is a monkey, and world peace, mostly world peace."

"If we keep fighting the world will be destroyed."

- From Kadin Haake's peace essay.

Official Flash Mob Sing Video

Jim Janzen, Carol Knieriem, and Anita Breckbill served on a Habitat for Humanity project in Sao Paulo Brazil.

Email messages and photos reporting on their work and experiences are posted here.

Sunday, November 13, is First Mennonite Church's "Benefit Day" at Ten Thousand Villages in Lincoln's Haymarket and we want to help Foster Care Closet. 

The store is sharing 10% of total sales that day and First Mennonite has designated the proceeds for the Foster Care Closet. 

First Mennonite Church is collecting canned yams and boxes of stuffing mix for People's City Mission to distribute to needy families, along with turkeys and other Thanksgiving food items. 

Our goal is 300 of each.

As of November 8 we have received:

Yams: 115

Stuffing 145

Deadline is Sunday, November 13.

Jeanette Harder, a member of First Mennonite Church, was interviewed in a recent feature story on Shaping Families, a radio program of Third Way Media.  Find streaming audio, downloadable mp3 file, transcript, and study guide at the Third Way website.

Stan Harder joined a Christian Peacemaker Teams delegation to Ontario from September 22 until October 5.  The delegation, which is co-lead by Hannah, joined native communities engaged in healing, resisting colonialism and struggling for sovereignty.

This Trip report was presented at First Mennonite Church on Sunday October 16, 2011.

If you want to learn more about Grassy Narrows regarding mercury poisoning, see this series of reports from CBC television.

Everyone is invited to a neighborhood party at First Mennonite Church.

Saturday August 27 - 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Rain Date Sunday August 28

Food - Fun - Free

Resources, including audio and outlines, from the Biblical Metanarrative class taught by Dr. Gordon Brubacher, May 1, 8, 15, & 22, 2011 at First Mennonite Church. 

Understanding the Bible's "big story" will be the theme of a four-session course on the biblical metanarrative offered by First Mennonite Church. The class, which begins on Sunday, May 1, will be taught by Creighton University Assistant Professor of Scripture, Dr. Gordon Brubacher.