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Summer’s End: A Baptism, a Birthday, and a Wedding

August 24, 2025 by Susan Burkholder 6 Comments

Yellow and red flowers

This summer has been wet and buggy, but it's coming to an end. For the past week or two, the mornings and evenings have been delightfully cool, the school buses have been running, and I'm ready for a new season. I didn't have any big adventures this summer, but I thought I'd write a newsy, circle-letter like blogpost about the past month. On August 3, my niece, Angie, was baptized in Mill Creek at Lancaster Mennonite School, along with three other young people from Crossway Mennonite … [Read more...] about Summer’s End: A Baptism, a Birthday, and a Wedding

Filed Under: Community, Family Tagged With: Faith, family

Packing at Blessings of Hope

August 21, 2019 by Susan Burkholder 4 Comments

Women and children bagging flour

"Let's go volunteer at Blessings of Hope!" My sister Brenda is the family planner (on the left in the above photo) and that's how 19 family members, mostly children, ended up bagging flour together on a Wednesday afternoon earlier this summer. It was great thing to do together as a family, and a fun way to support a local ministry doing an astonishing work. Blessings of Hope has been in my neighborhood for several years, and for a long time I thought it was a food pantry. Blessings of Hope, I … [Read more...] about Packing at Blessings of Hope

Filed Under: Family, Neighborhood Tagged With: family, Lancaster County, volunteering

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