Germantown Mennonite Church

02/21/2025

This Week at GMC -- Women's+ retreat tonight! -

This Sunday Pastor Jay will preach from Luke 7:36-50…about how Jesus speaks of forgiveness and grace as embodied and in relationships.

02/14/2025

This Week at GMC -- If you hate babies, then you're gonna hate church this Sunday -

Covid levels in our area have been fluctuating over the past weeks. Masking is encouraged at GMC and we have KN95 masks you may use. Adult and child size masks are available. As always, if you are sick, please stay home and join worship via Zoom. If you test positive for Covid a few days after being...

02/07/2025

This Week at GMC -- Just another Super Sunday at GMC -

This Sunday — Working with Mennonite Disaster Service, led by Phil & Dottie Baumgarten, Duane Hershberger and Jay Johnson

01/31/2025

This Week at GMC -- Communion Sunday -

February 9 — Working with Mennonite Disaster Service, led by Phil & Dottie Baumgarten, Duane Hershberger and Jay Johnson

01/24/2025

This Week at GMC -- Congregational meeting after the service -

This Sunday, in continued recognition of the 500th anniversary of the beginning of Anabaptism, Pastor Jay will facilitate group reading and learning about Anabaptist history.

01/21/2025

Five hundred years ago today, a group of young adults revolted against the theocracy that ruled them. They re-baptized each other on confession of faith, proclaiming that membership in the body of Christ is not a genetic inheritance or a citizenship card. They proclaimed a faith in the radical nonviolent way of Jesus.

For the last five hundred years -- 341 of them here in Germantown -- we have kept working on this commitment. We can mark this anniversary, alongside our Anabaptist siblings all over the world, by listening to the new podcast from Mennonite Action, by showing up for New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia - Nuevo Movimiento Santuario this Saturday at 2pm, and by praying for each other and reaching out to each other. Anabaptists have always known that we make Christ known in the world by our living. As Anna Jansz wrote to her son before her martyrdom in 1539 at the age of 30,

"But where you hear of a poor, simple, cast-off little flock, which is despised and rejected by the world, join them; for where you hear of the cross, there is Christ. . . . Love your neighbor. Deal with an open, warm heart. Give your bread to the hungry, clothe the naked, and do not tolerate having two of anything, because there are always those who are in need."

[Photo: The site of the first Anabaptist baptism in North America in 1723, a few miles from Germantown Mennonite Church. Photographed on January 21, 2025.]

01/17/2025

This Week at GMC -- MLK Sunday Service -

Covid and other respiratory infection levels in our area have been on the rise over the past 4 weeks. Masking is encouraged at GMC. Adult and child-size KN95 masks are available at the church for your use. Additionally, GMC has a plentiful supply of Covid test kits. These are available on the table....

01/10/2025

This Week at GMC -- Let's talk baptism -

Covid levels in our area have been on the rise over the past 4 weeks. Masking is encouraged at GMC and we have KN95 masks you may use. As always, if you are sick, please stay home and join worship via Zoom. If you test positive for Covid a few days after a service, please contact the church office s...

01/03/2025

This Week at GMC -- Epiphany Sunday with Lydia Wylie-Kellermann -

Lydia Wylie-Kellermann is our guest preacher this Sunday, January 5. Lydia will speak about her new book This Sweet Earth. Her book  asks: "What does it mean to be a parent in the age of climate change?"

12/20/2024

This Week at GMC -- 🕯🕯 LOVE CANDLE be LIT! 🕯🕯 -

- Tuesday, December 24, 7pm - Christmas Eve Service at our Historic Meetinghouse (6133 Germantown Ave). A service of scripture, song, and candle-lighting, with cookies to follow

12/13/2024

This Week at GMC -- 🎄🎄 CHRISTMAS PAGEANT Y'ALL 🎄🎄 -

- Tuesday, December 24, 7pm - Christmas Eve Service at our Historic Meetinghouse (6133 Germantown Ave). A service of scripture, song, and candle-lighting, with cookies to follow

12/06/2024

This Week at GMC -- Meet Tareq Abuhalima and hear his witness -

Tareq Abuhalima will share with us during our worship service. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Tareq is a Graduate Assistant at Bluffton University's Peace Arts Center. Tareq is also doing his Master's in Business Administration at Bluffton University. He grew up in Gaza City, previously taught at the....