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Our Local Mennonite Schools
Goshen College
Goshen College will again offer a number of summer camp opportunities for kids of all ages, including 3D Art Camp (Grades 6-8; July 8-12), Write on Sports Camp (grades 7-8; July 8-19), high school boys basketball camps (Aug. 3-4) and McCracken Basketball Camps (Ages 8-18, June 24-27).
Learn more and sign up.
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS)
Sign up for a fall course at AMBS
Hybrid course options include Teaching and Learning for Transformation and Spiritual Practices: Voice and Identity. Online options include Creation Care: Theology, Ethics and Spirituality; History of Christianity in Africa; Psalms; and more. We’re also offering 13 campus courses. Nonadmitted students get 50 percent off their first course for credit!
Learn more
Seminary scholarships for VSers
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary offers tuition discounts and scholarships ($1,500 per academic year) to current and former voluntary service workers. Enrollment must occur within five years of completion of the VS assignment. Sign up for a course now, or tap a shoulder!
Learn more
Our Mennonite Institutions
Everence
Stop by Everence Federal Credit Union for Youth Savings Week, July 8 to 12! Learn more about saving for the future, while having fun! Our youth savings account rate is rising for the event, plus youths will receive $5 if they deposit $15 in a new or existing savings account!
Learn more
Mennonite Church USA
Sign up to receive daily news, photos and highlights during MennoCon19, July 2-6.
Visit the
Menno Snapshots blog to see how people from across MC USA have followed Jesus, witnessed to God's peace and experienced transformation in their lives, their congregation or community.
Mennonite World Conference
Thousands of Indian people are placing their faith and trust in Jesus and being baptized daily. In some of the most spiritually dark regions of the world, new house churches are forming and replicating disciples, leaders, and churches in places where the gospel has never been present.
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Mennonite Mission Network
Mennonite Church USA convention is just around the corner. Are you attending? Mennonite Mission Network has lots of ways pastors can connect to resources. Check out our seminars featuring church planting, discipling, engaging in service no matter your age, healthy boundaries in relationships, conflict resolution, and more. For the young at heart, come to the booth and play an escape room game or eat some popcorn while chatting with our recruitment coordinator, Lauren Eash Hershberger, to think about ways to involve your youth in service. We can’t wait to see you there!
Service Adventure is looking for more applicants for the 2019-2020 service term. Service Adventure can provide high school graduates with the next step in their educational path. Youth ages 17-20 serve and live in community with mentors where personal growth and leadership development happens. Scholarships are available for those who plan to attend a Mennonite college following a year with Service Adventure. To learn more, contact
Susan Nisly or
click here.
Community Announcements
Pathways Retreat
Pathways Retreat (309 1/2 Hackett Rd, Goshen) invites you to spend time in nature this summer. They are a
birding hotspot with 108 species sighted to date. Two prayer labyrinths, a wildflower meadow with comfortable seating to watch the bees and butterflies, and two miles of wooded walking trails are available to all right here in the city! Visitors are welcome anytime from dawn to dusk with no need for a reservation.
Learn more.
Classifieds
Have something to sell, rent or lend? Want to buy or borrow something? Looking for a job or wanting to volunteer? This is the place to have it be known!
Merry Lea is looking for a host family for a male MCC international volunteer from Swaziland beginning August 22. This would be for six to twelve months. The volunteer needs to live in Goshen near the college in order to pick up carpool rides.
Contact Jennifer Schrock if interested.
A one bedroom main floor apartment will be available August 1. Located near the South Side Soda Shop in Goshen, rent is $525 per month and includes water. Gas/electric will be transferred into tenant's name. Deposit is $500. No pets or smoking.
Contact Aaron Shenk for further information.
Berkey Announcements
During Summer Sunday School, you will have the choice of an input/discussion option in the sanctuary and an active option elsewhere. You will 
Berkey Avenue will be hosting Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) at St. Marks United Methodist Church, June 23-29. IHN has been busy moving their offices to the church. They are full to capacity with guests. Please pray for the 17 guests in the program and our volunteers as we do our best to offer hospitality, love and care to them this week. - Brenda Grimes
We're grateful to report all 28 people nominated for leadership positions received high affirmation by the congregation with an overall 99% vote. The new appointments will begin in September. Thank you to all the new leaders joining our commissions and other roles this fall!
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. 
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.
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:
Do you have an announcement for the Newsletter? Submit your announcement to the office by noon on Thursday. Announcements received after the deadline will be printed the following week. Announcements run between 1-3 weeks.
Berkey owns a Church Video License (CVLI) to show select movies in church. If you plan to show a video or movie, 
