Pastors, science teachers and environmental advocates convened for a weekend retreat at Laurelville in February. Creation Care: Stewards of the Earth, a program jointly sponsored by Mennonite Mutual Aid (MMA), the Church of the Brethren and Laurelville, aimed to encourage participants to persevere in the face of a culture that, in spite of warnings from the science community and pleas from the world’s marginalized peoples, has been slow to change its habits of consumption.

Keynote speakers included David Radcliff, who heads the New Community Project (NCP), and Luke Gascho, director at the Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College and a founding member of the Mennonite Creation Care Network.

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Catching up with...Gene Hartzler
Laurelville's Director of Facilities and Grounds is a huge soccer fan

Get to know Laurelville staff and Association members through "Catching up with...", a new Q & A segment we're adding to our monthly Breezes e-newsletters. This month we caught up with Gene Hartzler, whose tireless work this record breaking work has maintained clear roads at Laurelville for hundreds of guests.

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Laurelville's Wish List
New items added to a list of concrete ways you can contribute to Laurelville's ministry

New items have been added to Laurelville's Wish List. We always welcome donations of gently used (or new!) items that might be useful to our ongoing ministry.

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News archives posted online
Stay current (or catch up to speed) on Laurelville happenings

Now you can stay up to date on happenings at Laurelville, even if you junked an old issue of eBreezes or forgot the link to photos from a PKF weekend.

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John's Views

A tale of two cities
Walking on sand and snow in the month of February

Sand and Snow…..Both were significant for me in February. One might ask how? Thank you very much for asking. I had the privilege of spending several days in sunny Florida in February while Laurelville was experiencing some of its biggest snow storms on record. My flight was cancelled out of Baltimore and I was finally able to get the last seat of the last flight out of Harrisburg, Pa., thanks to the persistence of my lovely wife, Debbie.

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