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We’re reworking the apprenticeship curriculum at the Mennonite Worker. “Apprenticeship” is the learning portion that new residents go through when they come to our community. We’re developing a week-long learning intensive (that will also be open to folks from outside the community) as well as some required reading.

Below is our tentative reading list. We’d love to hear any suggestions for materials you think we should add or remove from the list:

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Hospitality/Jubilee
Hospitality (welcoming the stranger) is not only a relational posture, but also an economic practice. For the Mennonite Worker, hospitality leads to jubilee (redistribution that leads to a gift economy). Any act of hospitality that doesn’t hold the potential for jubilee isn’t hospitality. Likewise, any practice of jubilee that is closed to outsiders rejects Jesus’ call to love neighbor and enemy.

• Dorothy Day. Loaves and Fishes
• Jean Vanier. Becoming Human
• Ched Myers. The Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics

Resistance
We are called to be a prophetic people, naming and challenging oppression wherever we find it as we seek to embody an alternative.

• Van Steenwyk, Mark. The unKingdom of God
• Guzder, Deena. Divine Rebels: American Christian Activists for Social Justice
• Thurman, Howard. Jesus and the Disinherited
• Waziyatawin. What Does Justice Look Like

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Simplicity/Sustainability
We want to embrace joyful abundance as we respect creation. Simplicity and sustainability require radical contentment and attentiveness as we honor the land and all God’s creatures rather that treat them as resources.

• Melissa Nelson, Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future
• Doris Janzen-Longacre. Living More with Less
• Jose Hobday. Simple Living

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Prayer
We want to be a community that is rooted in God’s presence. By nurturing spiritual rhythms, we want to be animated by the Spirit of God rather than be energized by the frenetic anxiety of modern civilization.

• Daniel Wolpert. Creating a Life with God
• Christine Sine. Return to Our Senses
• Thomas Keating. Open Mind, Open Heart
  

Peacemaking
Blessed are the peacemakers. We want to be a people who pursue reconciliation and love in all relationships.

• Walter Wink. Jesus and Nonviolence
• Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love
• Mark Kurlansky. Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea
• Thich Nhat Hanh. Creating True Peace

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In June, we launched a 12 Step Program for folks who are addicted to Empire. The group meets Tuesday nights at 7:45pm at 2420 11th Ave S, Minneapolis. The program was developed by Seminary of the Street in Oakland, California. This is how they describe the program:

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We have all been molded and shaped to some degree by the systems in which we live and by the worldview that underlies them, which includes individualism, white supremacy, the idealization of self-sufficiency, dubious ideas about how to achieve security, status, and esteem, and so on. That is not to say that we have succumbed completely. In fact, quite the opposite is true. We have probably all resisted as much as we can. Still, prolonged exposure to this culture has hurt us and diminished our humanity. We want it back. In this ongoing experimental 12-step program, we will focus on recovery from this process.

All are invited.

Update: As of July 15th, we’ve raised $3500, which is 70% of our goal!

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With the generous support of our friends, we’ve been able to do a lot of renovation work at Simone Weil House. However, the repairs are going to cost us more than we anticipated. We are also finding ourselves over budget as we’ve experienced some housing transitions (since our residents help pay the bills, having several people move out has depleted our reserves).

Between now and July 21st, we’d like to raise $5000 :

• $1000 for materials for remaining kitchen renovations (we’re doing all the labor ourselves).
• $3500 to restore our reserves in light of recent departures.
• $500 for other household repairs.

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We’d also like you to consider to donate, on a recurring basis, to our staff fund. Currently, we only one person on staff, Mark, who raises about $650/month. We’d like to see that increase and, ideally be able to free up other members of the community to dedicate more time to our ministries.

To make a donation online, click here . Otherwise, you can send a check to:

The Mennonite Worker
2420 11th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55404

If you aren’t able to help us financially, here are some other things you can do to support us:

• books/materials related to peacemaking and/or radical Christianity
• artwork
• large food dehydrator
• a loft bed for the main guestroom at Simone Weil House
• food donations (especially: coffee, beans, rice, and fresh produce)
• energy efficient light bulbs
• toilet paper
• dish soap
• canning lids
• toiletries for guests (toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, shampoo/conditioner, etc)
• laundry soap
• bus passes
• grocery gift cards

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We would also welcome your advice. In coming months, we’ll be developing a business plan for forming a cooperatively run business so that we can become financially self-sustaining by 2016. We have a number of ideas, but welcome input from our friends. Stay tuned for more!

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We have residential openings in September or October: preferably a couple or folks who are willing to share a room. Please spread word: we’re moving into some exciting new directions as a community and would love to be joined with folks who not only want to live in an intentional Christian community, but would like to help give shape to our next season of ministry. In the next several months, we’ll be launching the Gene Stoltzfus Center for Creative Peacemaking, starting a community business (more on that below), and releasing a new educational initiative.

Residents are those who have come to the Mennonite Worker to share in our way of life. New residents agree to stay with us for at least nine months. Folks have come to our community as a learning opportunity with the intention of moving on after nine months. Others come intending to become members after a time of additional discernment.

New residents are encouraged to limit their out-of-community workload so they are free to fully participate in the life of the community. Some activities new residents may participate in may include: offering hospitality to overnight guests, cooking, bicycle repair, gardening, dumpstering, hosting visiting groups, food prep, praying, protesting, studying, etc. During the initial few months of their stay with us, new residents will engage in a time of “hands on” learning. It is a loosely structured time of engaging our core values in a variety of ways–reading, watching documentaries, learning trips, learning new skills, and more. Everyone is given freedom to learn at their own pace, but our hope is that everyone will be stretched to engage new ideas and embrace new practices.

For more information about the application process, go here .

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Come celebrate with us! We recently purchased a new hospitality house ( Simone Weil House) and are throwing a party. Our new house will expand our capacity for hospitality as well as be the home for the Gene Stoltzus Center for Creative Peacemaking. We will open and dedicate the Center later in the spring. Bring snacks or beverages if you’d like.

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Housewarming gifts will be gladly received, but aren’t necessary. If you’d like to know more about what we still need for the new house, please contact us .

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A little ways into the party, we will share a bit about our vision for the house and formally dedicate the house. We will also give folks an opportunity  to contribute to our kitchen renovation fund.

Join us for our second annual karaoke dance party celebrating the work of the Mennonite Worker.

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Come get your groove on. Sing a few songs. Laugh with friends old and new. Drinks will be available (with a suggested donation). We’ll have snacks aplenty. And there will be several opportunities to give.

All proceeds will be used to support our ongoing work.

On Sunday, a house came on the market (off of 11th Avenue and 24th street). It is a 113 year old triplex. The city values it at 125k…it is beautiful, but we’ll need to eventually raise money for a new boiler system and update the electrical. They’re asking for about $115,000.

The seller is has lived in the house for 20 years. She has other offers (investors) but told us she’d sell it to us if we could show her that we are capable of paying the full amount. We have 24 hours to come up with the rest of the money. We have a few solid leads. But if you are able to donate money to the Mennonite Worker or offer a no/low interest loan, please contact us and we’ll go from there.

We have 75k in the bank. There is also an organization that we’ve been exploring partnership with (they do education and retreats focused on contemplation, prayer, arts, and healing…and are very like-minded) that has offered to help us with a 25k stake in partial ownership. So we are about 15k short. Not to mention that we’d like to have some money left in the bank for things like curtains and other new house stuff.

Any amount helps. The light may be at the end of the tunnel. If we’re able to secure the funds, we’ll close on October 31 and begin the move before Christmas!

Agape is the Koine Greek work for “self-giving love”.  In early Christian tradition Agape is also the name for communal meals and times of togetherness and mutual sharing. Often, these “love feasts” were Eucharistic (that means they functioned as the Lord’s Supper). In that spirit, we celebrate the Agape every week, bringing together elements of a traditional Eucharist meal, prayer, confession, and praise. Anyone may lead. And all are welcome to eat at the table.

Here is an example of the liturgy for our agape meal on Sunday nights:

CALL TO THE FEAST

One: This is a table of welcome. All are free to come and eat.
As we gather at this table, we remember these words of our brother
Jesus: “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger,
and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”

All: We come to this table hungry and thirsty. Satisfy us, O God.

One: As we gather at this table, we remember these words of our brother Jesus: “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

All: We come to this table weary and burdened. Give us rest, O God.

One: As we gather at this tale, we remember that Jesus comes to us in the stranger, in the hungry, in the thirsty, and in the one needing warmth.

All: We come to this table as strangers in a strange land. Welcome us into your family, O God.

PRAYER OF ADORATION

One: Let us pray. Living God, you are present in our midst.

All: and we praise you.

One: You are tearing down walls of alienation and exclusion.

All: For this, we praise you…

One: Because, in Jesus, you have shown us a way of hospitality, simplicity, prayer, peacemaking, and resistance.

All: we praise you.

One: Because your Spirit makes a new path for us, as we struggle to live in the belly of Empire.

All: We praise you.

One: weak as we are, you fill us with hope.

Lover of our souls, you give us joy.

All: and we praise you. Amen.

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

One: We remember that Jesus said: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment.”

All: Merciful God, we confess that we have not loved you with our whole heart. It is easy to be distracted with fickle dreams and selfish desires. Forgive us.

One: And Jesus reminds us of a second command: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

All: Loving One, we confess that we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. Our hearts too easily put our needs above the needs of others, seeking comfort and safety without regard for those who have greater need.

Pause for a time of silent confession. Consider these questions:
1) Am I reconciled to all at this table?
2) Does anyone here have a need that it is within my power to meet?
3) Is there anything I cling to that keeps me from offering love to those at this table?

One: Hear the good news: In the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of our brother Jesus, God proclaims forgiveness. In the name of Jesus, you are forgiven!
All: In the name of Jesus, we are forgiven!

SETTING THE TABLE

One: We take joy in the meal, where we give our love and attention to one another, and remember that Jesus too is here, with us. In the midst of this sacred meal we set three symbols to remind us of his promises to us:

Reader 1: A candle, to remind us that he poured out his Holy Spirit upon us, giving us new life, new power, and new hope. We, filled with this Spirit, bring the presence of God into a broken world.

Reader 2: Bread, for he is the bread of life. He nourishes us and we put our trust in him.

Reader 3: A cup, a reminder of his sufferings. He took up the cup with his friends before he was crucified and his blood flowed.  He suffers still when the oppressed suffer injury at the hands of the powerful.

One: Jesus  is with us! Let us open our hearts to God and to one another. Amen.

PASSING THE PEACE

The people gathered offer one another a sign of peace. Usually, this is a hug, but a handshake is also appropriate.