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    Regina Shands Stoltzfus On our street: God dwells here - Wednesday, May 20, 2009

    As populations migrate and move to new locations, rife with new experiences, difficulties, opportunities and problems, one thing remains common: God. [ Full Story ]
    Hugo Saucedo Saucedo: Searching for God in the city - Wednesday, May 20, 2009

    Every spring and summer idealistic youth and their adult sponsors travel to the big cities. Their goal: to bring God into the urban spaces. But God is already present. Hugo Saucedo believes seeing God everywhere means looking to encounter people rather than to rescue them. [ Full Story ]
    Harvey Chupp and Subbaroa Yarlaggada Rural connections: Limited only by lack of vision - Wednesday, May 20, 2009

    Harvey Chupp is a conference overseer and former pastor in a rural Indiana county, but Chupp said a lack of size does not limit his congregations imagination or its ability to relate to others outside of its rural home. [ Full Story ]
    Survival guide for short-term mission trips - Wednesday, May 20, 2009
    They are coming. They want to serve. They want to show. But are they ready to learn? Here are your must-know tips for all the short-term groups coming to your cities. [ Full Story ]
     
    Merge: Excerpt from upcoming short-term service guide - Wednesday, May 20, 2009

    In Merge: A guidebook for youth service trips from DOOR (Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection), to be released this summer by Faith & Life Resources, service group leaders receive a framework for preparing youth to enter cities for service, and preparing them to return home again. [ Full Story ]
    From left, Danny Yoder, Nicolas Angustia and Aldine Thomas. Convention connection links New York and Indiana youth in ministry - Wednesday, May 20, 2009

    What began as a connection among youths at a Mennonite Church USA convention could have evolved into nothing more than short-term mission trips. Instead, congregations in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Goshen, Ind., are developing a two-way relationship, allowing each to consider their mission to one another and to the world. [ Full Story ]
    Leo Hartshorn Missional leaders take an urban plunge - Wednesday, May 20, 2009

    What does "missional" mean in North American culture? Leaders plunged into an urban setting to find out. [ Full Story ]
    Jason Evans Extra: The Word moves into the neighborhood - Wednesday, May 20, 2009

    In a Web extra, Jason Evans examines God incarnate in our own neighborhoods, be they cities or suburbs--in our interaction with those around us. [ Full Story ]
    Urban briefs: News from your street - Wednesday, May 20, 2009
    Catch up with what is happening in urban areas across Mennonite Church USA, including new approaches and new units for young volunteers, how youthful exuberance is not wanted in some churches, and how New Jersey youth stayed home to do short-term service. [ Full Story ]
     
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