Congregations: Perkasie
We are a worshiping Anabaptist community; caring for each other; advocating for peace and justice; welcoming all people to experience God’s love; as we encourage each other to model the life of Jesus.
320 W. Chestnut Street Perkasie, PA 18944 (map)
info@perkmenno.org
215-257-3117
www.perkmenno.orgPastor(s): Wayne Nitzsche, Pastor
Time of Services: Sunday Worship 9:30AM
Sunday School 10:45AM
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Google EarthFranconia 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
Perkasie congregation screens award-winning documentary
by Becky Felton, Perkasie Perkasie Mennonite Church screened a newly-released international documentary film this September to congregational and community members. The film, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, tells the inspirational story of women caught in the middle of a vicious civil war in Liberia who banded together to find ways to bring peace. Thousands [...]
Posted on 28 September 2009 | 1:20 pm
Twenty five years at the center of God’s work
Donella Clemens, PerkasieWhen I first became involved “in the center” of Franconia Conference as chairperson of the Nurture Commission in the early 1980s, the Conference leadership governing body was quite different than it is today. A conference council consisted of the chairs of each of six commissions and their staff plus the conference administrator. [...]
Posted on 13 July 2009 | 3:17 pm
Shrinking an ocean: Learning from post-Christendom ministry
Gay Brunt Miller, Spring MountThe Atlantic Ocean is getting smaller. No, I’m not referring to the impact of global warming but to Franconia Conference’s partnership with the Anabaptist Network in the United Kingdom. As this partnership grows deeper and wider, the Atlantic Ocean feels like it is shrinking.Ten Franconia Conference congregations are participating in the [...]
Posted on 2 March 2009 | 1:02 pm
A childhood goal realized: “I’ll work for Jesus all I can”
Wayne Nitzsche, Perkasiewnitzsche@gmail.comWhen I was nine years old I wrote a poem that appeared in what was then The Gospel Herald. The poem, which follows, was very simple.My GoalI’m a little branch on the vineI love Jesus, he is mine.In a few years I’ll be a man.I’ll work for Jesus all I can.For years I [...]
Posted on 11 December 2008 | 6:33 pm
Intentional Interim Ministry: Giving room for the Holy Spirit to move
Lora Steinerlsteiner@franconiaconference.orgIn order to grow spiritually and become more missional, sometimes congregations have to take a rest, step back and reevaluate who they are and where they are going.This usually happens during times of pastoral transition, when intentional interim pastors are brought into a congregation to prepare them for the next pastor. The interim period [...]
Posted on 23 July 2008 | 10:29 pm
Sharing vision, values and people: First Conference-based intern set to learn and serve across the pond
Gay Brunt Miller, Spring Mountgbmiller@franconiaconference.orgWhen Krista Ehst leaves for the United Kingdom (UK) in September, Franconia Conference will take another step toward deepening our relationship with the Anabaptist Network in the UK. From seeds planted in 2005, rooted in a relationship of shared vision and values, this Partner In Mission relationship is beginning to grow [...]
Posted on 23 July 2008 | 10:27 pm
Called to a Mission in Marketing: Encouraging shopping with a conscience
Brenda Oelschlagercareshareshoppes@verizon.netA seasoned second-hand shopper herself, Sarah Bergin hopes her enthusiasm for a good buy is contagious as she fills her role at the Care and Share Shoppes in Souderton, Pa. She started the year as the new Executive Director for the organization which includes three thrift stores and the Ten Thousand Villages fair trade [...]
Posted on 17 March 2008 | 11:01 pm
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