Worship

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What Time We Meet

Join us for Coffee and Fellowship at 8:45am. Our Sojourners Study hour begins at 9:00am. Worship is at 10:15am.

Where We Meet

We gather for study and worship each Sunday morning at our meeting place, 1195 Hendricks Street in Berne, Indiana. We enjoy our view of the fields and neighborhoods along the Canoper Trail. The facilities are handicapped accessible. During the week, we meet for all kinds of activities: meetings, coffee hour, play time, sewing bees, and cleaning too!

What To Expect

A caring community sharing God’s love, mercy and justice

About Us

At Emmaus Road Mennonite Fellowship, in our walk to be more Christlike, we recognize the sacred worth and dignity of all persons.

We recognize that each person is made in the image of God, loved by God, and given gifts by God to serve the church and our community.

We welcome all races, ethnicities, physical and intellectual abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, marital statuses, ages, educational levels, and financial and immigration status into full participation in all aspects of church life. This includes baptism, marriage, and lay and pastoral leadership.

We recognize that there are many injustices in our community, nation and the world that are inconsistent with the teachings of Jesus. We name and address these injustices, believing that part of our mission as a people of God is to be truth-tellers, justice-seekers, and peacemakers.

We begin at 9:00am with Sojourners, an opportunity to develop friendships and to dig deeper into the Bible as well as matters of faith and life. The discussions share prayer and life concerns and support for each other.

Our worship service begins at 10:15am with the children bringing the Light of Christ.

All are invited to participate.

By the power of the Holy Spirit, we follow Jesus…

In the Spirit …
We seek to grow in the movement of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in our community as we more closely follow Jesus together.

In service …
We share in God’s work of caring for one another, within our Fellowship, and throughout the world. We are a servant church.

In celebration …
We begin our worship with our children bringing the Light of Christ. As an intergenerational community we celebrate Jesus’s life and God’s movement in the world around us. We joyfully journey with each other as we grow into full maturity in Christ

In justice and peace …
We seek wholeness in our own relationships, with our neighbors, around the world, and in the creation. Non-violence is core to our beliefs.

Study & Worship

As our fellowship name suggests, we see ourselves as people on the journey of faith.  We select study resources which help us to discover life-giving ways to grasp the rich texts of the Bible.  We enjoy lively discussions as we ponder and consider our readings of the Bible.   We are grateful that frequently, we are joined by guests from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Bluffton University or Goshen College.   We value the visits of resource persons from Mennonite Church USA and the Central District Conference.

Our worship is a time of singing, praying and listening.  In our gathered worship, we are strengthened in our allegiance to the way of Jesus.  Almost every week, we share together at the Lord’s Table.  We remember Jesus’ humility and sacrificial love as we serve one another.   All who seek to know more about Jesus are welcome at the Table.

A recent Confession of Faith, “Shenandoah Confession” drafted February 2014 by the Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship meeting at Eastern Mennonite University describes the foundations of our study and worship.  We desire to grow more deeply in these understandings:

  1. Confession of faith in Christ as the foundation of peace.
  2. Love as the root of all things.
  3. The call of the spirit of God to all for radical pacifist action.
  4. Acceptance of the truth of the full humanity of all God’s children.
  5. Inclusion as the guiding principle of action within the spirit.
  6. Accountability of historical wrongs, especially colonialisms.
  7. An abiding desire to participate in resilient and just economies.
  8. The full and unflinching engagement of creative faculties of believers in service of peace.
  9. Embrace of lives of radical simplicity following the truth of God’s peace on Earth.
  10. Commitment to deep listening and dialogue as the prophetic intention of Christian pacifism.
  11. Recognition of failures and continued re-commitment to our principles within community.

Sojourners Study

Each Sunday, we gather for Bible study or other faith-engaging resource. Several of us serve as facilitators of the conversation.  We enjoy the lively discussions that always arise.

Children

Our Fellowship is grateful for the young families which enliven our community. Faith formation of children is important to us. “Shine” curriculum is the resource we share with our young children. In worship, we have a weekly “Children’s Time” followed by “Kids’ Corner” for the remainder of the service. Two/three adults are with the children in the bright children’s room.

As a community, we dedicate ourselves to the nurture and support of children and their parents. We practice believer’s baptism as a sign of our commitment to follow Jesus. We celebrate the goodness of God’s creation and seek to help one another heal from the broken ways which come to each of us.