Monday night during an activity with the local youth group, our team was
walking down a dark street when the youth leader told me that “it would
be good if we could dance” at the next stop.
The next stop turned out to be a children’s home with nearly 60 kids
packing the wooden benches. Our group sang songs, some of the younger
girls did a dance they had prepared, and then while some throbbing music
blared, we danced.
“God invades the lives of ordinary people and makes them extraordinary,”
said Josef Berthold, speaker at Eastern Mennonite Missions’ Winter
Commissioning Service for short-term workers. “God starts with small
signs, small things. Rarely does he come to us with the finished
project.” Berthold was speaking to a group of more than 150 people who
gathered on January 23 at East Petersburg Mennonite Church to commission
two YES teams and four individuals.
He noted that in the traditional Christmas story that it was shepherds
keeping watch in the fields. “Some may say I’m two months behind in
reading this passage,” Berthold joked. “But I say I’m ten months ahead.”
Berthold told the congregation that the story intrigues him since the
shepherds were on the lowest rung of society.
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Monday night during an activity with the local youth group, our team was
walking down a dark street when the youth leader told me that “it would
be good if we could dance” at the next stop.
“God invades the lives of ordinary people and makes them extraordinary,”
said Josef Berthold, speaker at Eastern Mennonite Missions’ Winter
Commissioning Service for short-term workers. “God starts with small
signs, small things. Rarely does he come to us with the finished
project.” Berthold was speaking to a group of more than 150 people who
gathered on January 23 at East Petersburg Mennonite Church to commission
two YES teams and four individuals.