10218 SE 12 St., Whitewater, Ks 67154
Can you help?
Request for this Sunday’s Worship Service – Bethel College Sunday – I request volunteers to assist in the worship service this coming Sunday. Available parts:
- Call to Worship
- Offering & Prayer
- Children’s Story
- Benediction
Anyone is welcome to assist in worship – you need not know who Herman Bubbert is. ☺
Relief Sales are a unique way to raise funds for aiding needy people around the world. In the early months of 1922, MCC workers in South Russia appealed for assistance from U.S. Mennonites. Mennonites and many others in South Russia (now Ukraine) were starving due to a drought-led famine, made worse by a food shortage during the Civil War. Many had died.
On June 30, 1922, Martin B. Fast, of Zion Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Church south of Dinuba, and other church leaders organized an auction near Reedley, California to raise funds to South Russia. Donated items, ranging from animals such as horses, cows, chickens and rabbits, to machinery, wagons, furnishings and baked goods, were brought to the John K. Warkentin farm 14 miles south of Reedley. Proceeds of $1,750 were cabled to MCC workers in South Russia the following day.
From the next publicized relief sale held in a barnyard near Morgantown, Pa., in 1957, this people’s movement has grown to an annual festival in each region and province of the Mennonite constituency. New Hamburg, Ont., was the site, in 1967, of the first relief sale in Canada. Relief sales are popular because people can serve in a worldwide ministry at home in a way reminiscent of earlier community efforts such as barn raisings, butcherings, and threshings.
On April 16
1953 Eisenhower’s famous speech declaring,
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
1983 Jim Ryun, world-class mile runner was the featured speaker at the Bethel College Booster Club Barbeque. Tickets: $7.50 adults; $5 students.
1995 Easter sermon, “The Resurrection – Empowered to Live Our Dreams” by Pastor Jim Voth.
2000 The rose bud this morning is for Jacob Richard, born to Brian and Michelle Hilgenfield, Monday, April 10, 2000. We rejoice with them in this gift of God.
2006 Easter sermon, “The Awesome Difference!” by Pastor Jim Voth.
2006 MCC House Against Hunger under construction in Buhler.