Berkey Announcements

 Summer Sunday School

During Summer Sunday School, you will have the choice of  an input/discussion option in the sanctuary and an active option elsewhere. You will find the full schedule for the summer here. It is also posted on the bulletin board by the mailboxes.

June 16 Class Options:

• Input/Discussion: "Exchanging God's Grace with Strangers," led by Susan Garboden.
• Activity: Soccer, led by Nate Shenk

Servant Leadership Ballot for 2019-2020

The Leadership Discernment Team (LDT): Mark Yoder, Ruth Miller Roth, Julie Zimmerman, Jonathan Neufeld, and Dan Schrock are pleased that the following persons have agreed to serve on our commissions and in other roles. We will vote to affirm these persons this Sunday, June 16, during the worship service. If you would like an absentee ballot, you will find it here; please return it to one of the LDT members (except for Dan who is on sabbatical) before June 16.

Berkey Servant Leadership Ballot for 2019-2020
(Terms are 2 years unless otherwise noted.)

Spiritual Leadership Team/Elders:
        Shirley Dick
        Joe Liechty
        Stephanie Wieand  
Caregiving Commission/Deacons:
        Connie Bauman    
        Caitlin Lanctot
        John Schrock                        
Christian Education Commission:
        Patti MacGregor    
        Dan Nafziger   
        Lavonne Shetler
Fellowship Commission:
        Diane Beam (1-year term)
        Joel Kern    
        Denise Risser
        Trish Shenk
Mission Commission:
        Rafael Barahona
        Laura Horst    
        Darin Short  
Stewardship and Finance Commission:
        Missy Kauffman Schrock
        Dale Snyder (1-year term)
        Aaron Wieand
Worship Commission:
        Lindsy Diener-Locke
        Merrill Krabill        
        Patsy Sherer  
Creation Care:
        Lydia Martin         
        Jennifer Schrock
        James Yoder  
Congregational Chair:
         Shirley Dick
Congregational Secretary:
        Jenny Yoder (1-year term)           
IN-MI Conference Delegate:       
        Steve Garboden (1-year term)    

Volunteer Appreciation for Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN)

IHN Volunteers: Don't forget to redeem the coupons for free pretzels, drinks, pastries and popcorn that you found in your mailboxes this past Sunday! Just go downtown on Saturday, June 15, between 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. to the participating vendors and enjoy! IHN is very grateful for every volunteer and wants to show their appreciation in this way!  

My Coins Count

Keep bringing your quarters and other change/bills to church to help Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) provide clean water around the world. Coins add up. Each year, spare change collected by churches, children and families add up to more than $600,000 for MCC’s work. Learn more about the tubes in our fellowship hall used for collecting quarters. See Dan Williams with questions.

Save the Date

Berkey will be hosting a blood drive for American Red Cross on Friday, September 6, 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. Donating Blood makes a big difference in the lives of others. So whether you are a regular donor or this is your first time, we hope you will participate in the drive. More details and sign-up instructions will be coming soon.

Note from Joanne

Joanne Gallardo will be gone June 9 - 15, participating as a Fellow in the Engle Institute of Preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary. She will return to the office on June 18.

Jenny Hooley on Vacation

Jenny Hooley is on vacation from June 17 - 28. While she is gone, Jenny Yoder will be doing a few office tasks, such as newsletter and bulletin. If there are any special requests for the office that are not time sensitive, please wait until Jenny Hooley returns. Deadline reminders:

• Bulletin - Wednesday noon
• Newsletter - Thursday noon.

New to our Library

Four books have recently been added to the Berkey library:
Addiction Nation: What the Opioid Crisis Reveals about Us, by Timothy McMahan King who ended up as millions of others have: addicted. King eventually learned to manage pain without opioids--but not before he began asking profound questions about the spiritual and moral nature of addiction, the companies complicit in creating the opioid epidemic, and the paths toward healing and recovery.

Unraptured: How End Times Theology Gets it Wrong, by Zack Hunt. As a teenager living in the buckle of the Bible Belt, Zach Hunt was convinced the rapture would happen at any moment. But when it didn't happen, Hunt's tightly wound faith began to unravel. If he had been wrong about the rapture, what else about his faith might not hold water? Unraptured uses signs of our times to reorient our understanding of the gospel around Jesus' call to love the least of these.

Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, by Rachel Held Evans, NY Times bestselling author who was recently deceased at the age of 37. She examines some of our favorite Bible stories and possible interpretations, retelling them through memoir, original poetry, short stories and even a short screenplay. Evans wrestles through the process of doubting, imagining, and debating Scripture's mysteries.

Two Old Women, by Velma Wallis. Based on a real Athabaskan Indian legend passed along from mothers to daughters for many generations on the upper Yukon River in Alaska, this is the tragic and shocking story--with a surprise ending--of two elderly women abandoned by a migrating tribe that faces starvation brought on by unusually harsh Arctic weather and a shortage of fish and game. A story of betrayal, courage and survival

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