Daily Connector | First Fruits Giving | Fred Suter
August is the time of year to prepare for harvesting—fruits from the trees and grains from the fields. It’s also a time of reflection and projection for me. As I consider the recent request from the Leadership Team for a First Fruits Giving commitment for 2021, I appreciate the role…
Daily Connector | Thoughts on giving | Pete Yoder & Metz Kramer
For good, or for ill, money has power, and it speaks for us. For this reason, we offer our financial giving intentionally. Just as in a growing season, from planting to harvest, we plan our giving upfront, so that it speaks to what we value, believe, and support. So where…
Daily Connector | Plarn anyone? | Katie Mast
The kitchen floor was nearly covered. I had just put all the groceries away and there they were, plastic bags puffed in a pile like cumulus clouds. I scooped them up and tried to stuff them in the cupboard where the rest of the bags were stuffed. The door didn’t…
Daily Connector | Sixty-five and counting | Paul Swartzentruber
Jan and I were married on August 20, 1955, at 7:30 p.m., at the Orrville (Ohio) Mennonite Church on one of the hottest days of the summer. Even now, sixty-five years later, I can still feel my sweat-soaked body in my navy-blue wool suit standing in front of the congregation…
Daily Connector | Thinking Baseball: And Now the Offering… | Tim Stried
I have enjoyed reading the CMC Daily Connectors and getting to know many of you a little better. No matter how COVID-19 has or hasn’t affected our lives, each of us lost things, gained things, and learned new things about ourselves and others. Beginning Thursday, March 12, one of the…
Daily Connector | Legos | David Emch
I’ve started seeing most of my clients again in person. I still have a few that are online, but it’s so nice to be back in my office – with all of my toys. Earlier this summer I took a continuing ed class on how to incorporate Legos into a…
Daily Connector | My Present Reality | Michele Dicke
When my neighbor Roy was placed into an emergency vehicle Thursday for transport to the ER, I went to console his partner, who assured me Roy’s condition was not life threatening but required some medical treatment. We then discussed that, in our neck of the woods, if your loved one…
Daily Connector | Observations from my Fair Weather Neighbors| Jim Myers
When I wrote about the birds nesting above my front door, there was polite doubt expressed about them being some kind of swallow. The white eggs (not included in the Connector story), for one, did not fit. Based on others observations and reading and listening, I now believe they were…
Daily Connector | Summertime | Jerry Nussbaum
I’m grateful for summertime. I look forward to an annual visit to the shores of Lake Superior for time to sit and watch the setting sun across the water. Attached I am sharing a picture of the lovely pebbled shore as the sun sets on the horizon. These shores have…
Daily Conector | What am I grateful for today? Learning | Dan Halterman
We have more family history records on my Mom’s side than my Dad’s. The internet has helped minimize the difference. Dad was born in southeast Ohio, the last of four children of an older couple from West Virginia. Most of his extended family (and his dad was one of the…
