Shows
Seattle Mennonite Church SermonsWelcome HomeSummary: As we return to our church building for the first time in more than 17 months, we ponder the question: Why do we worship? Our new hymnal and worship resource, Voices Together, guides us through some of the foundational responses to that question. Firstly, we worship in order to be gathered as community. Summoned by the God who made us, we come home to God and to one another, finding (AND extending) belonging, welcome, transformation, liberation. However imperfectly: Welcome home, church…!Series: Summer-Ordinary Time 2021ResourcesScripture: Isaiah 2.3-4, Voices Together 13Photo: by Kathryn Smith De...2021-08-1511 min
Seattle Mennonite Church SermonsReflections on South Africa and the U.S.After a brief introduction by Dan, Kathryn Smith Derksen shares reflections on 4 years of life in (complicated and diverse, awe-inspiring and pain-filled) South Africa. And then she beautifully brings the message home with gracious truth-telling about colonialism in our own (U.S.) lands and among our own (Mennonite) people. Listen to her powerful invitation to resist bumbling around in denying, defending, or disappearing our problematic histories and present realities, and instead lean into reliance on God, caring for one another through connection and forgiveness, and working together for racial healing.2019-12-2920 min