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Shaped by the Spirit in Every Season
Also on Pentecost, Lisa Muthiah was asked to reflect on the time from about 2000 to 2013 and share a story or a few memories that capture how the Spirit was moving at PMC during that time. Here are her words…
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A Recollection of the 90’s at PMC
PMC celebrated Pentecost on June 8th with a Sunday service in Victory Park across the street from the church. We heard from three PMC members about memories from various decades of the church. Jan Harmon recalls the 90’s with heart and humor.
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Pastor Helene Mfwilwakanda speaks to John 14:15-27
Pastor Helene Mfwilwakanda of Wholicare Missionary Community Church, a Congolese congregation, speaks to hardship, elections and the love of neighbor at Pasadena Mennonite on September 22nd.
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Into the Bush
In the series, Interpreting Scripture in Community, Steve Chun takes us into Exodus 3:1-15. This is a difficult passage, without the historic background that some of the oldest texts in scripture have. But can we find different questions of this passage?
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The Woman at the Well
During our summer series spending a month with a single passage in various ways, Karl Baker preaches here with rich background and without shaming the Samaritan woman we’ve come to love. Jesus, though, honors her first. He first identifies himself as Messiah to this outsider— as a Samaritan, a woman, and within her community
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In the Fog
PMC steps into a summer series, “Interpreting Scripture in Community.” Here, Vikki Randall delves into 2 Corinthians 4:1-12. We are driving forward into the darkness, certain and determined that we are right– until God breaks in to our lives with wonder and power.
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Justice & Service at PMC
PMC’s Justice and Service Commission invites us into ministry around affordable housing, indigenous rights, peacemaking amidst war and world conflicts such as in Gaza, and political advocacy in these and other areas. Justice is aspirational but also is possible, so the commission places Justice before Service in its name as a reminder to seek justice…
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Drawing in the Sand
Cara Pfeiffer uses the story of the woman caught in adultery, John 8:1-11, to share the practical peacemaking steps Jesus took in that encounter to deescalate the situation and to protect a vulnerable woman.
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The Meeting Place: On Embracing Dissonance
Reconciliation is a practice and, like a muscle, it needs to be exercised every day. Psalms 85 calls us to embrace dissonance as a generative space, cultivating spaces where mercy, truth, justice, and peace can meet together and embrace.
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What We Need Is Here
Sue Park-Hur continued our series on “Praise & Peacemaking” with a look into trauma care. Sue shares her own history with her family, shaped by the Korean war — and broadens the scope of where trauma care is needed, followed by some simple and even playful exercises to bring relief the pain we all experience.
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