Posted by:
lefthandedgoat
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Date: August 23, 2013 10:13AM
We have a daughter (BYU grad, MO husband, 3 kids) who lives in an area with TONS of Mennonites of all stripes (there is a lot of diversity in/of Mennonite churches). After she decided the Mormon Church was full of it, she church shopped around in all of the normal places and then settled on a fabulous Mennonite congregation (she still feels a need to have a church for social reasons). This congregation is pretty progressive on a lot of levels (lots of social justice issues) and has the most fabulous music program I've ever seen (and acoustical sanctuary to match).
I visited her last week and the youth group, that really had their stuff really together, ran the Sunday service- not like a Mormon congregation would do but, really ran the service from beginning to end. They reported on their trip to the annual "convention" of Mennonite Youth in Phoenix a few weeks ago. Here's a link to a video clip of one of their praise bands - looks a little like a rock concert – and a lot more fun then any Mormon youth event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfadrq4JyE