Blooming Glen Mennonite Church

Our Mission | On a Journey Together with Jesus

Our Values | Biblical Guidance, Peaceful Practices, and Generous Service

Our Goal | To welcome our neighbors in Upper Bucks & Montgomery Counties to join us in

following Jesus daily in life.

Our Commitment | To grow as an authentically Anabaptist-Mennonite congregation, embracing

discipleship, community, and reconciliation as the essentials of the Way of Jesus.

Our Strategy | Renewing, Organizing, and Planning

1. Church Together - organizing God’s people to express God’s purpose through curating worship (loving God), community care (loving one another), and cooperative mission (loving our neighbors).

2. Define & Align - establishing clear and interactive leadership that governs our policies (CLB), manages our assets (foundations), guides our ministries (elders) and coaches our discipleship (church staff).

3. BG Next - preparing for the future by communicating well, understanding our environment, and thoughtful succession planning.

Our Beliefs | We embrace the Statement of Shared Convictions of Global Anabaptists (2006) as our

entry point to church membership. We hold the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite

Perspective (1995) as our shared teaching position in alliance with and as a member

of Mosaic Mennonite Conference, which is in partnership with Mennonite Church

USA.

Everything is changing. But people don’t resist change, they resist loss. To be healthy, we must stay together and move forward. We want to be quick and nimble, but not in a hurry.

At Blooming Glen Mennonite Church, we are working to grow, to stay strong, and to plan for what’s next. Together, with Jesus, we’re eager for the future!

As God’s people, we commit ourselves to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord of our lives.

For more information about Mennonite beliefs:

VISION STATEMENT OF MOSAIC MENNONITE CONFERENCE

Embody the reconciling love of Jesus in our broken and beautiful world.

Blooming Glen Mennonite Church began as Mennonites migrated north from Germantown, near Philadelphia. The first meetinghouse, built in 1753, was a small log cabin structure located across Blooming Glen Road from the present building. Artist, Berdine Leinbach, has created the rendition seen here.

The following 250 years included many changes and challenges. Faithfulness to following Jesus was often unpopular. New innovations such as Sunday school brought transitions to the church, including a move from the German language to English.

As time passed new leaders were ordained and meeting houses were built and added to. New areas of mission and outreach were created and new programs and church organization instituted.

In 2003 Paul Lederach, who served as a pastor and bishop for the congregation, wrote a history book, Seeking What Cannot be Seen, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the church. It concludes with a reference to the anniversary hymn, “O Blessed Church,” written by J. Edward Moyer. The hymn notes that Blooming Glen is a singing church, a praying church, a preaching church, and a sharing church. These foundational practices of Mennonite faith have been shared by thousands of people through the years at Blooming Glen and today their stories of faith blend with our current stories as we seek to follow Jesus faithfully.

[Book and Fraktur are available for a donation.]