Clinging Tightly, Holding Lightly

"The apostle Paul wasn't writing only to children and youth," Ross Erb, pastor of children, youth and families at Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA, in his Sunday sermon, "he was writing to all of us when he said: 'be transformed by the renewing of your minds.' As this happens, some of what we know may need to be re-evaluated. At times it may feel like everything is shifting, but it is at those times that we need to go back to the truth, to go back to Jesus, to center ourselves in our faith community, to test out our relation to the world in the context of our faith community. The service was the annual back-to-school event when children and young people, reaching certain age milestones, were given Bibles and Bible instruction books to acquaint them early with what is in the scriptures.