Other Parts of our Family of Churches:
The Official Brethren in Christ Homepage
This is our “denomination”.
Brethren in Christ World Missions
We are a part of a world-wide church plant effort.
Mennonite Central Committee
We are a part of a world-wide relief, development and advocacy effort.
Mennonite Mutual Aid
MMA is a church-affiliated organization that nurtures the practice of holistic, biblical stewardship. They help individuals and groups act on their faith values in everyday decisions about resources.
Affiliated and Sister congregations
Circulo de Esperanza in Madrid
email: bruce@anabautistas.org
phone: +34-91-526-2471
Jesus Followers Who Organize in Cells
Touch USA
Network of Cell Churches in the US, links to world-wide movement.
Small Groups Network
How to lead a small group.
Allies in Ministry
Members of our congregations are connected to these organizations.
Brotherly Love Urban Youth Services
Bryan and Brenda Robinson lead this mission impacting the lives of inner-city youth.
Christian Community Development Association Online
The mission of CCDA is to inspire and train Christians who seek to bear witness to the kingdom of God by reclaiming and restoring under-resourced communities.
Covenant House
Helping teens in need.
Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust
Randy Nyce is director for this “homeplace” of Anabaptists in the U.S.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia builds and rehabilitates houses and neighborhoods by providing simple, decent, affordable homes in partnership with families in need.
Mission Year
Mission Year is a year long program where Christian young people live in an urban neighborhood volunteering, worshiping with, and loving their neighbors.
Mustard Seed Associates
Provides resources and a network for other committed Christians to anticipate the future, decode the culture, convey the Kingdom of God, and create new ways to be a difference and make a difference.
Philabundance
The Philadelphia region’s food-rescue organization
Project Home
Philadelphia’s leading homeless mission.
The Camden Houses
A community trying to “live outside the box”
The Simple Way
A community trying of subversive friends serving as a catalyst to spread the vision of loving God, loving people and following Jesus in our neighborhoods and in our world.
World Evangelical Fellowship
Challenges the western Church to speak out against the persecution of Christians.
Anti-racism and Reconciliation
Damascus Road
The MCC Anti-Racism Program provides anti-racism educating and resources from an Anabaptist perspective.
Resources for Multicultural Ministry
Offering stories, resources and pratical ideas for forming cross-cultural friendships and living your faith more effectively.
No Partiality
This site is a study guide for the book, No Partiality: The Idolatry of Race and the New Humanity.
The King Center
The King center is the living memorial and institutional guardian of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy.
Peacemaking
MCC Peace Office Newsletter
Resource for the world-wide peacemaking efforts of our relief, development and advocacy arm: the Mennonite Central Committee
Christian Peacemaker Teams
A group designed to “get in the way” of conflicting sides and cause peace.
Peace & Justice Network
From our Mennonite friends: a helpful collection of various ways to learn about how to make peace.
School of the Americas Watch
Dedicated to closing the School of the Americas (and related institutions) that are notorious for producing human-rights violators in the Latin American militaries.
Witness for Peace
Working for peace, human rights, justice and sustainable economies in Latin America and the Caribbean through socially responsible travel, personal experience, popular education and grassroots activism
Plowshares Institute
Our pastor is part of the Philadelphia Community Conflict Transformation training and action (ECRJ) birthed by the efforts of Plowshares to promulgate a method mastered in South Africa for meeting conflict with love and understanding.
National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund
Advocates for U.S. federal legislation that would enable conscientious objectors to war to have their federal income taxes directed to a special fund which would be used for peaceful (non-military) purposes.
Social and Environmental Justice
Carbon Neutral Digest
Discusses all things relating to carbon offsetting. Includes detailed descriptions of offset projects, offset provider ratings and interviews with industry leaders.
Conscientious Objection
MCC Peace Office
Information and resources on the peace position from our relief, development and advocacy arm: the Mennonite Central Committee
Center on Conscience & War
CCW works to defend and extend the rights of conscientious objectors.
Making a Deeper Relationship With God
The Kairos School of Spiritual Formation
Lancaster/Wernersville, PA
Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation
Washington, DC
Kindred Spirits
“TheOoze“ - Spencer Burke’s site is one of the more well-done and thorough-going ones around for those interested in the “emerging church.”
”Relevant” Magazine can be found at www.relevantmagazine.com- tagged as “God.Life.Progressive Culture,” Relevant seeks to find connections between the emerging generation and what God is “up to” in the world. -”Emergent” is an “emerging” group (the next generation, or those struggling to minister to them, apparently like this word) that is looking for new ways to build community and “be the Church,” for the next generation, including perhaps starting an “alternative seminary” and other ventures. Check them out at www.emergentvillage.org.
The Northumbria Community describes a network of hugely diverse people, from different backgrounds, streams, and edges of the Christian faith. We are united in our desire to embrace and express an ongoing exploration into a new way for living Christianly - a way that offers hope in the changed and changing culture of today’s world.
The Iona Community is a dispersed Christian ecumenical community working for peace and social justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship.
Our Musicians & Artist Friends
Musicians
Psalters
mewithoutYou
Saxon Shore
John Francis
John Mallinen
Denison Witmer
Meron
Sans Les Mots
Kid Kreyol
Mercury Radio Theatre
The Lil’ Bees
DJ Jon-a-Tron
Birds of Maya
Hunter Gatherer
Kuulski
Soporus
Monitors
The Tourist
Johnny Showcase
The Royal Malcontents
Burnt Toast Vinyl
Vinyl pressing and distribution run by Scott Hatch.
Potter St. Records
Record distribution in Kensington, Philadelphia. Run by Jaime Moffett.
Artists
Screen Printing
HYMY industries
Producing one-of-a-kind apparel (t-shirts, sweatshirts and other tops) and works on paper. By Will Stichter, Matt Neff and Christopher VanAuken.
Pottery
Lauren Stichter
Hand-thrown and hand-carved pottery, with a focus on explorations of lanterns.
Graphic design, painting and illustration
Lookingiswrong
Graphic design by Mike Almquist.
Ethan Harper
Comic strips and illustration.
Leanne Biank
Artist and painter.
Lizzy Janssen
Design, print, drawing, sketches.
Architechture and design
Bright Common
Design and fabrication studio, aiming to explore beauty through sustainability, efficiency, economy and craft in design solutions both great and small.
Minus Studios
Experimenting with designs for pre-fabricated, sustainable and affordable designs in Philadelphia and abroad. By Jeremy Avellino.
Films and photography
Get-Kinetic
Chaotic, average, lifeless, and boring (visuals) beware! Post production by Dan Gauthier.
Whispers In the Storm
Whispers in the Storm is an interactive photo-documentary, combining voices and images of urban Philadelphia. The ultimate purpose is to build bridges through storytelling.
This site/blog is a collaboration with Everquest: North Philly resident, rapper, producer, and minister of the gospel. Film of his story forthcoming.
Carina Romano
Photography, specialization in weddings.
Brae Howard
Artist and photographer.
Jauhien Sasnou
Photography and stuff.
Tattoo Artists
Kelly Smith
Old school and custom tattoos.
Luke White
Old school, new school and custom tattoos.
Amy Wagner (Hawaii)
New school and custom tattoos if you’re ever on Oahu.
Writers
Hairstylistry and cosmetology
Faith Hutchinson
Corrective color, dimensional hair color, hair design, long hair dressing, thermal reconditioning (Japanese method). Based out of Fishtown.
Collaborative/installations
Mark McQuilling and his high school art class
Publications we recommend
Sojourners Magazine about Christian community and non-rightwing Christian political thinking.
Third Way Cafe, a site that explores the peace movements among the Mennonites. Visitors will find stories of contemporary peacemakers, a capsule history of conscientious objection to the war through the years, plus more resources.
Digital Walk Encouragement for disciples in the digital age.