Last Tuesday we had an opportunity to celebrate over 20 grade 6s from Bethel Kidz Club! On June 23, we hosted a drive-in/walk in, socially distanced celebration in the Bethel parking lot. Please, see the pictures...
what wilderness wakes outside your window, shakes you limp between its teeth? what world wanders from you, roils and bends beneath you, sends you to cracked stone, leeched soil, warns with sun unrelenting? all of it unrelenting. whose hands spill the bitter water, tally up the dead? what watches, each night, numbers rising? what, wild with fear, breaks in you? and what water washes?
The 2017 Redwood fire complex in northern California devastated hundreds of thousands of trees, built up structures, and the lives of hundreds of people. Soon, humanitarian concern and compassionate responses began to marshal the wide ranging infrastructure and resources of Mendocino County, the Red Cross, the potentialities of NGOs; and then the Mennonites came...