October 24, 2021 // Shaped By Service: Reflecting on the Journey of MCC and WMC

WildWords: Sermons from Wildwood Mennonite Church

This Sunday our worship service is a celebration of our church's work through and with the Mennonite Central Committee! As you may recall (through the timey-wimey fog of the pandemic year that was), 2020 marked 100 years of MCC, and we celebrated that long and deep and wide history in one of our Zoom services last fall. As part of the centennial festivities, we also raised over $10,000 for MCC's "New Roots" campaign, and this summer a tree was planted in front of the church building as a living tribute and inspiration for the ongoing work of "Relief, Development and Peace in the name of Christ."

All of that was and is excellent, but with our return to in-person worship (in small doses) this fall, we thought it would be appropriate to revisit the MCC Centennial, with a particular focus on the many, many connections between MCC and our congregation specifically. In this service, we heard from multiple MCC volunteers and staff, a braved the wind and rain for a quick trip outside to surround and dedicate our new "MCC Centennial Tree."

Listen for a testimonial from WMCer Bruno Baerg about his time serving with MCC and a sermon from Eileen Klassen Hamm, MCC SK Executive Director (and also a WMCer). The sermon is called "We Are Connected Like Tree Roots" and is drawn from 2 Corinthians 5:18-20.