Times to treasure
The weeklong summertime program was filled with a balance of family fun, work, good food, activities, campfires and spiritual growth. Ellen Rosenberger, mom of Elizabeth, along with David, 11, Emily, 9, Lucy, 7, and Amanda, six months, signed her family up because she treasures the opportunity to help her kids experience what’s it’s like to serve on a mission trip. “You never know what trips can do for a child,” she said. Her husband, Luke Rosenberger, pastor of East Bend Mennonite Church in Illinois, recalled how, when he was 11 years old—the same age as his oldest child, David—a mission trip to Nicaragua with his own father changed his life. Luke’s parents, Judy and Dan Rosenberger, also came along with others from church: Lena Kreeb, 11, and her father, Matt Kreeb; Jayne Eby and her son Bradon, 16, and their family friend Kyleigh Kiogima, 20. REPAIRING THE CAMP The Amigo Centre serves as a church retreat facility, children’s day camp, summer camp, and a place to connect with nature for many groups. For Cheryl Mast, who coordinates outdoor education
MDS Family Program draws generations together to grow the seeds of service
Five-year-old Elizabeth Rosenberger is good at finding treasure. During the MDS Family Program at the Amigo Centre in Sturgis, Michigan, she collected feathers, pretty rocks, flowers, shells, and pine needles she eventually tied together to make a broom. “I’m making a movie,” she explained, as she divided her time between sanding the wooden sides of a fire extinguisher box and tending to her collection. At the Family Program there were treasures for everyone, from grandparents to infants, from teenagers to toddlers.
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