Mennonitis

My wife told me i swear too much in blogs, so ill try to keep this one clean. I was asked to preach or "share" at a local Mennonite church's church retreat this past weekend. Ive known some of the folks for quite some time. Not your stereotypical long skirts, bonnetts, plain blue, quasi-amish types that you think of. In fact they readily describe themeslves as liberal. Im not exactly sure what that means in thier context. Anyway, they meet at thier church weekly for worship. They meet in an average looking home on man street. They are very active in local ministries, such as Heart and Hand, a local outreach of clothing and food and housing. They also host a sepearate home that houses 4 recent highschool grads for a whole school year of service. Pretty socially active bunch. Thier retreat was at a random campground in the middle of Cheat Mountain here in WV. It was beyond chilled. On the schedule next to breakfast for saturday morning is had.... ?... too cool. Worship was some scripture reading, praying, sharing, singing of hymns and me "sharing" for 20 minutes. It was small (25 adults, 10 kids) and intimate. After the sharing time there is a respond time, for reflections or questions concerning the message. Other than a few questions for clarification on thier theology, it could be a cool place to "worship". As scarry as it sounds, some of the families live in neigborhoods together. Communities, they call it. But they have two communities where there is shared property, but individual homes, some shared farming things if you want, but mostly taking care of each other. Sounds kinda Biblical. Damn, oops, sorry hun.