Sunday, June 29, 2008

Top Ten Reasons Why Mennonites Should be Interested in Community Gardening

10. Food grows in a community garden and we are called to feed the hungry.

9. Flowers grow in a community garden and flowers feed the soul.

8. A community garden is a peaceful place and we are called to be a people of peace.

7. Mennonites would do well to spend more time on their knees.

6. Mennonites are called to evangelize and the shortest path to the soul is through the soil.

5. Jesus used to hang out in a garden. Maybe they'll meet him there.

4. Everyone who wants a Mennonite quilt already has one.

3. MCC really stands for More Carrots and Cabbage.

2. The first Menno Simons sighting of the new millennium occurred in a community garden in Goshen, Indiana.

1. IT ALL STARTED IN A GARDEN.

(written by Ted Zerger, Salina, KS)

Christian Pledge of Allegiance

I pledge allegiance to Jesus Christ,
And to God’s kingdom for which he died—
One Spirit-led people
the world over, indivisible,
With love and justice
for all.

(written by J. Nelson Kraybill)

(Click Title above for link to source article in The Mennonite, August 3, 2004)