![]() Larry Green dealt with building support for farm workers and immigrant rights and Susan Weishar described engaging Catholic congregations in meaningful dialogue on immigration. In Mobilizing Faith Communities Samuel Trickey, Richard MacMaster, and Rev. One elder of the congregation, Paul Campbell, is also involved with a local school garden. Gather ideas for school gardens and see some fine kale here. Gainesville Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice organized two sessions. It will be interesting to see what collaborations take place around the oak hammocks. Projects initiated by Emmanuel, like Muslim-Christian dialogue and Gainesville’s Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice, are collaborative efforts. “Since we’ve always been small, we have to work and play well with others,” Eve MacMaster, pastor since 2001, likes to say. Richard Nimer serving as Vice-Chair and Tom Rush assisting. So Jared Pennock (Sun, March 21) visited the Ocala National Forest and was aghast to see a 100-acre clear cut in a forest of. The Church Council has been working on plans to preserve most of the land in its natural state and develop a program there for traumatized veterans. MacMaster would elaborate on this area when he addressed the group later in the. Much of this property is forested wetland and includes what are known in Florida as oak hammocks. Americans, including some Sun readers, like to see the world in terms of an old-fashioned Saturday matinee double feature. GAINESVILLE In response to the President Donald Trumps executive actions toward immigrants and refugees, one Gainesville organization is countering with a message of its own. At his death, he left a legacy that enabled the church to buy and retrofit its own meetinghouse in 2010. There’s another side of the Georgia story. Beltram made 50-mile trips in order to worship with Emmanuel Mennonite Church until he was past 90. One such member was Fred Beltram, a Baptist who was a conscientious objector during World War II. The congregation was formally organized and called their first pastor in 1983.įrom the beginning, Emmanuel has been known in the community for its commitment to peace and social justice. A majority of its 50 current attenders have been drawn to the congregation’s Anabaptist thought and practice from other religious backgrounds or no religious background. Joined MCCN’s Green Patchwork Congregations: April 2014Įmmanuel Mennonite Church, Gainesville, Florida, grew out of a Bible study fellowship that Mennonite faculty and students at the University of Florida began in 1976. Richard MacMaster, board chairman of the nonprofit Welcoming Gainesville and Alachua County, said Gainesville Mayor Lauren Poe wasted no time to invite Puerto Rico’s hurricane refugees to settle.
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