Micah Brickner is the communications director at Eastern Mennonite Missions. He is involved in the formation of Branch & Vine, a Brethren in Christ congregation in Lancaster City, PA where his wife, Heather, is pastor.
Articles by Micah Brickner
I sat quietly at a row of long rectangular tables. My wife, Heather, and my two-year-old son Lucas sat to my left, with my sister, brother-in-law, and nephew adjacent to us. Country renditions of familiar hymns flowed from an inconspicuous speaker in the corner of the fellowship hall of a small…
I have told this story to a few people and have often received responses like, “You have got to be joking … that sounds just like the parable of the Good Samaritan.” Unfortunately, I assume there has often been a bit of skepticism in those persons’ responses…