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OCTOBER 20, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVII • NO 44
Group Offers Personal Hunger Experience few years ago, Brandon Adams, a graphic designer with Garden Spot Village (GSV), felt a calling. “The Lord was prompting me to do something in the New Holland area with Missions of Hope International (MOHI),” recalled Adams, who had taken mission trips and spent two months working with the organization in Kenya. “I went to chaplain Chet Yoder (to consult him about the matter).” The result is a partnership between MOHI and GSV, which includes sponsoring children in the Mathare Valley, Nairobi, Kenya, and a two-week Travel with Purpose mission trip to the region in February 2022, which will be led by Adams and GSV chaplain Karyn Nancarvis. The 12 members of that team will host a Hunger Experience for area residents in the GSV Chapel on Saturday, Nov. 6, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. “It’s an educational experience,” explained Nancarvis. The experience is free, but seating is limited. Those
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wishing to attend should preregister by Tuesday, Oct. 26, by searching for “Hunger Experience” at www.eventbrite.com. Masks will be required at the event. During the Hunger Experience, participants will be assigned an identity and encouraged to roleplay that person in an interactive setting. Food that will be involved in the event will reflect what the person each participant was assigned may have had to eat that day. “The food participants will receive will help teach the reality of how people around the world in different classes eat,” explained Adams. The goal is for participants to gain a better understanding of food distribution and poverty by understanding the realities of worldwide food access. The Travel with Purpose team is made up of GSV staff members and residents ranging in age from 39 to their early 80s. Adams explained that MOHI specifically works with people in need in the urban slums of the Mathare Valley. On the trip, the group will visit the children’s homes and school and hold a twoday vacation Bible school for the See GSV pg 4
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BY ANN MEAD ASH
Among the more than 40 items Lavinia Zimmerman has helped gather for the auction portion of the 2021 German Christmas Market and Auction are an “authentic German spinning Christmas pyramid and a German mug.” This year’s fundraiser will wish attendees an early “frohe Weihnachten” (“merry Christmas”) when it is held at Weaverland Anabaptist Faith Community, 210 Weaverland Valley Road, East Earl, Saturday, Nov. 20. A craft
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Karl Stoltzfus, one of the leaders of ELANCO Celebrate Recovery (CR), is clear about the heart of the ministry. “No one comes into recovery on a winning streak,” said Stoltzfus. “We are all here admitting that we are broken and we need connection and we need God. There’s no shaming in that, and I think that comes across in what we do here.” See ELANCO CR pg 7
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
German Christmas Market Planned
ELANCO CR Celebrates Four Years Of Recovery Support
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