Eating humanity
“The church life is all about eating,” a brother recently said during the end-of-the-year gatherings as part of our churching together. And while we prepared and ate a lot of good food together, what...
Gaining power by walking
Recently, during our trip as a church, one of our young brothers who just transitioned into college life as a freshman flew back to spend time with us. As he shared his college experience...
Freedom for oneness
Standing on centuries-old soil of a former slave plantation in the deep south, I found myself filled with many senses. As part of one of our recent trips as a church to South Carolina,...
The posture of life
In late spring a few months ago, while it was still very cold out, a few sisters and I went to a free plant exchange. There weren’t many options that day, but I came...
Serving with all my portion
People travel for many different reasons: to get refreshed and inspired, to take a step back from their current life, to put an end to the past and start anew. To us, it’s to...
The hammer
On the afternoon of October 24, on a corporate trip to Bar Harbor, Maine, we went to Clark Cove on the north side of Mount Desert Island to get clams and other shellfish. It...
“O tell it to all generations”: Our first visit to Goshen, IN
Today, the church in Toledo visited brother Gifford Neill who wrote a blog post on his experience of the 1969 conference in Erie, Pennsylvania and the 1970s move to Akron.
A church visit to Goshen
On Saturday, July 2, the church in Toledo made a trip to visit a brother who attended the Erie Conference with Witness Lee back in 1969. 1969 was a pivotal time in the world...
Living who we are
The kayaking day had finally arrived. We were divided into groups, with two tour guides each. My group’s guides were two young women who appeared to be around my age. They were a very...