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IMMC relies on the generosity of congregations and individuals to help fulfill our mission and calling. Joining our Missional Seeds Club is a way for individuals to partner with IMMC in sustaining us as a community of congregations, engaging the world God loves. Stay tuned for more information for how you, too, can be part of the Missional Seeds Club on Giving Tuesday!
On Saturday, November 11 at 10:00-11:00 a.m. EST, Mennonite Palestine Israel Network (MennoPIN) will host a Zoom conversation with Tareq Abuhalima of Gaza City and current graduate assistant at Bluffton University’s The Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center. Before beginning his graduate education at Bluffton University in January 2023, Tareq previously worked at Youth Vision Society in Gaza City as a project manager and served as MennoPIN’s “Twinning with Gaza” Initiative Coordinator. He recently presented a seminar at the Mennonite Church USA Convention in Kansas City and will share about his experience of growing up in Gaza and give an update on the disastrous human toll of the current war.
If you would like to join, please contact the IMMC Office.
The COVID-19 pandemic gave urgency to the use of technologies in worship and transformed practices of worship in some Christian communities, providing access for many and creating barriers to access for others. How can Christian communities navigate these technological possibilities faithfully? This lecture makes the case that an answer must begin, not end, with access. This requires articulating both a theology of access and a theology of worship that centers access as vital for worshipping communities who take seriously God’s desire for Christians to worship God together. With this foundation, it becomes possible to investigate how technology in worship facilitates understanding and attending to human bodies and communities. But it also asks us to think expansively about what constitutes technologies of access and what conditions make worshipping together possible.
Join ADN field associates Bonnie Miller and Denise Reesor, and executive director Jeanne Davies for a panel discussion on exploring membership with people who have intellectual disabilities. They’ll discuss inclusive classrooms or personal study with a pastor, mentor, or parent; strategies for engaging and learning; and how to use ADN’s new curriculum Believing and Belonging: An Accessible Anabaptist Membership Curriculum. Bring your experience and questions for this practical conversation.
Mennonite Church USA is offering a free webinar in the Learn. Pray. Join series of End Gun Violence. IMMC’s own Katie Misz and Jon-Erik Misz (Waterford Mennonite Church, Goshen) are part of this virtual panel with Sue Park-Hur, Jonny Rashid, and hosted by Lorraine Stutzman.
Mennonite Education Agency (MEA) announces the upcoming publication of Advent at Home 2023 Taken from Leader magazine s Advent theme, How will we know? This worship guide accompanies individuals and families through the days and weeks of Advent through Epiphany with scriptures, prayers, worship rituals, suggested activities , and contextual information. The guide is expected to be available around November 13 for free download in English and Spanish from the MEA website at www.mennoniteeducation.org/resources/advent-at-home/home/