Congregations: Blooming Glen

After the earthquake: Working to bring healing and hope to Haiti

Jessica Walter, Ambler In the weeks and months following the massive earthquake sustained by Haiti in January, Franconia Conference continues to collect funds to assist the Grace Assembly Network congregations in the rebuilding and reconstruction following the Haiti earthquake. In the days following the earthquake, communication with key Grace Assembly Network leader, Pastor Lesly Bertrand, was [...]

Posted on 17 March 2010 | 10:10 am

Franconia Conference Summer 2009 Class of Interns

Blooming Glen • Benjamin Bergey (Blooming Glen) spent his summer with his home congregation as part of his studies at Eastern Mennonite University. Bergey will enter his junior year at EMU as a double major in church music and vocal performance. Church of the Overcomer • Julianne McDonald (Church of the Overcomer) interned with the Church of [...]

Posted on 3 November 2009 | 11:10 pm

Damascus Road Anti-racism Training held in Norristown

The 11th annual Damascus Road Anti-racism Analysis Training for the greater Philadelphia region will be held at Partners for Families, February 26 - 28, 2010. The training, derived from the Damascus Road Anti-Racism Process of Mennonite Central Committee US, is designed to equip participants with a biblical basis and an analytic framework for dismantling systemic racism [...]

Posted on 20 October 2009 | 1:00 pm

Hopeful vision roots at Indian Creek Farm

Sheldon Good, Salford In 2005, Phil Bergey, former Franconia Conference executive director, had a dream about the future of the Indian Creek Road Farm. In the May/June 2005 issue of MennoLife, Bergey said that in his dream he imagined the 40-acre Harleysville farm “as a place that would unite the daughters and brothers of Franconia [...]

Posted on 1 September 2009 | 4:04 pm

Constructing partnership in NE Philly: Building relationships with sweat and care

Sheldon Good, Salford If you want to build it, they will come. Over the past five months, four Franconia Mennonite Conference congregations have traveled to Philadelphia to help construct Oxford Circle’s new church building: Covenant Community Fellowship, Blooming Glen, Franconia and Salem. Dan Freed and others at Covenant Community Fellowship know the importance of mutual aid [...]

Posted on 1 September 2009 | 4:04 pm

Centro de Alabanza begins public worship in South Philadelphia

Stephen Kriss, Philadelphia Praise Center I know I am a child of the 1980’s when in the midst of a moving worship event, I am drawn to a line from the A-Team, “I love it when a good plan comes together.” At the time of the first Sunday morning worship of Centro de Alabanza de [...]

Posted on 1 September 2009 | 4:04 pm

Mutual aid in practice: Returning aid in a time of ‘drought’

Robin Long, Blooming GlenIn 1999, Eastern Pennsylvania experienced a drought which lasted throughout the summer. Farms were severely affected as their crops were declared a total disaster. The local Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) board approached farmers in the Bucks and Montgomery counties to ask how they could help. The request was for hay [...]

Posted on 13 July 2009 | 3:16 pm

Exchanging a free meal for a listening ear: Worm Project shares stories and inspires action

Jessica Walter, Communication and Leadership Resources ManagerOver a meal of well seasoned red beans and rice in a packed banquet hall more than 200 people sat down to hear about the work Claude Good and the Worm Warriors are doing to fight the infestation of intestinal worms that plague whole populations of children and adults [...]

Posted on 13 July 2009 | 3:14 pm

Via Verano Morocco and Spain

Posted on 6 August 2008 | 9:47 am

With these signs from our God: Following God’s leading to Blooming Glen

Mary Nitzsche, Blooming Glenmary@bgmc.netAs a child, I loved to play church with my sister. We sang songs of faith, read scripture and I “preached.” It was not in the realm of my thinking or imagination at this early age that one day God would call me to be a pastor. My parents were people of [...]

Posted on 23 July 2008 | 10:25 pm