"Mennonite Church USA received requests across the denomination to provide an Anabaptist grounded resource for clergy and congregations to engage in learning about the call for police abolition. When we confess 'Jesus is Lord' we are leaving behind systems that operate by coercion, violence and punishment. Mennonites have long recognized that following Jesus occurs in our bodies and with our lives. We remove ourselves from military service because we refuse to harm or kill people at the direction of the state. We affirm that all people are made in the image of God. We believe that it is incumbent upon the church to discuss and discern policing as another form of state-sanctioned violence"
Defund the Police? An Abolition Curriculum by Mennonite Church USA, Tuesdays at 7pm: A group of us will gather to engage this together (curriculum linked here). We will initially meet only by zoom: Join Zoom Meeting (Meeting ID: 835 8601 2963 - Passcode: 329384 - Phone: 253-215-8782). All meetings @7pm on Tuesday: Sept 7, 14, 28, Oct 12, 19, Nov 2, 16, 30, Dec 14. Before the first gathering next week, please watch the 18-min video and listen to the 1-hr podcast listed as "pre-work" on the "Introduction" page, on the link above (just scroll down!). Contact: Pastor Megan Ramer, megan@seattlemennonite.org.

You're invited to a book group with Sarah Augustine! SMC is a member of the new Repair Congregations and Communities Network of the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition. Sarah has offered to meet this fall with the Network to discuss her new book, The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery. Here is the link to register for the book discussions. The first 40 registrants will get a free copy of the book, which is now available through popular booksellers and publisher Herald Press. Registrants will be sent a Zoom link to join the sessions.

"Mennonite Church USA received requests across the denomination to provide an Anabaptist grounded resource for clergy and congregations to engage in learning about the call for police abolition. When we confess 'Jesus is Lord' we are leaving behind systems that operate by coercion, violence and punishment. Mennonites have long recognized that following Jesus occurs in our bodies and with our lives. We remove ourselves from military service because we refuse to harm or kill people at the direction of the state. We affirm that all people are made in the image of God. We believe that it is incumbent upon the church to discuss and discern policing as another form of state-sanctioned violence"
Defund the Police? An Abolition Curriculum by Mennonite Church USA, Tuesdays at 7pm: A group of us will gather to engage this together (curriculum linked here). We will initially meet only by zoom: Join Zoom Meeting (Meeting ID: 835 8601 2963 - Passcode: 329384 - Phone: 253-215-8782). All meetings @7pm on Tuesday: Sept 7, 14, 28, Oct 12, 19, Nov 2, 16, 30, Dec 14. Before the first gathering next week, please watch the 18-min video and listen to the 1-hr podcast listed as "pre-work" on the "Introduction" page, on the link above (just scroll down!). Contact: Pastor Megan Ramer, megan@seattlemennonite.org.

You're invited to a book group with Sarah Augustine! SMC is a member of the new Repair Congregations and Communities Network of the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition. Sarah has offered to meet this fall with the Network to discuss her new book, The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery. Here is the link to register for the book discussions. The first 40 registrants will get a free copy of the book, which is now available through popular booksellers and publisher Herald Press. Registrants will be sent a Zoom link to join the sessions.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89793670080?pwd=eXF4b09vbmkyZ1VIZ0dUVzJOeG9Gdz09
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Passcode: 706421