Lampeter-Strasburg JULY 30, 2025
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VOL LXII • NO 13
Mennonite Strasburg Celebrates Life Will Host Active People Who Helped Storytelling Our Night Homegrown Create Passive Park
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Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania director Patrick Morrison in front of one of the steam locomotives that will be housed in the new exhibit. Photo by George Deibel
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t ra s b u r g C o m munity Park is referred to as a “passive park,” meaning it is designed for nature-based activities. The people responsible for making that happen were anything but acquiescent. Several of those community members were on hand June 9 for a celebration of the park’s 25th anniversary. The milestone was especially rewarding because of the effort it Cindy Baker speaks at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Strasburg Community took to get to this point. Park. Photo by George Deibel “We rallied the troops because off for development,” Baker said. Cindy Baker vividly recalls the day the journey began: March 24, 1998, we heard some of the council mem- “So we had over 200 people show the day of a Strasburg Borough bers were considering selling (the up for the meeting.” land where the park is now located) Only 125 fit into the conference council meeting.
Lydia Nolt noted that it’s one of her most memorable events of the year. Mennonite Life’s 14th annual Storytelling Night will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 4, at Landisville Mennonite Church, 3320 Bowman Road, Landisville. Everyone is invited. There is no admission fee, but Mennonite Life will welcome donations to support its mission. “Storytelling Night is a highlight for me,” said Nolt, who is an educator at Mennonite Life. “It’s one of my favorite events. I love attending. The stories that come out of it are so powerful. When you have two people in conversation with each other, different things come to light.” Hyacinth Stevens and Kevin Ressler will be the guest speakers. Stevens is a bishop in LMC’s New York District and works as executive director of Mennonite Central Committee East Coast. (LMC used to stand for Lancaster Mennonite Conference, but that group is now a nationwide conference.) Mennonite Life said that Stevens has spent 12 years pastoring King of Glory Tabernacle in the active Christ-centered community in the Bronx where she was raised. “She is passionate about embodying Anabaptist peace witness and bringing the Good News to her community wherever she goes,” Mennonite Life said. Stevens and her husband, Benjamin, have four children. Ressler is the CEO at Alliance for Health Equity and former president and CEO of United Way of Lancaster County, among
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