With the resignation of Elaine Moyer as principal at Christopher Dock Mennonite High School (Lansdale, PA), the school’s Board of Trustees has implemented a transition process.
The board’s executive committee has been named as the Transition Committee: Phil Bergstresser, LeeAnn Bergey, Henry Longacre, and Ruth Yoder.
The Board reaffirmed and agreed on several foundational beliefs to guide their decisions during the transition. Dock will retain an unapologetic Anabaptist/Mennonite identity considered essential to retain Dock’s vision. Dock is committed to continued collaborative work with Penn View and Quakertown Christian Schools and on the GPS 2012 initiative.
A Search Committee was named to to find a new principal and prepare a transition timetable. Members include: Joy Sutter, chair; Hunter Hess, Sharon Fransen, Jim Lapp, and Henry Longacre. Their intent is to employ a replacement by the beginning of the new school year.
The Search Committee also released the following employment advertisement. More information relating to the search process can be found online at dockhs.org by clicking on “DockSearch.” The Committee invites prayers and suggestion of possible candidates from leaders and members in the Franconia Conference community.
ADVERTISEMENT for Principal at Dock
Christopher Dock Mennonite High School, a leading secondary school in southeastern PA with 400 students and 40 faculty members seeks an outstanding educational leader rooted in the Anabaptist faith to serve as principal for the school beginning in July 2009. The successful candidate will embody a strong sense of community/team building, demonstrate well-developed leadership and administrative skills, display excellent interpersonal and communication skills, be an educator with a passion for leadership in a secondary school, and be an active member of a congregation affiliated with an Anabaptist church. Master’s degree and educational leadership experience required. Interested applicants should submit letter of intent and curriculum vitae to: Joy Sutter, chair of search committee, 2671 Crabapple Circle, Perkasie, PA 18944, or email to DockSearch@gmail.com. Further information for potential candidates can be found at www.dockhs.org.
Franconia Mennonite Conference Prayer Focus - Week of March 1 - 7, 2009 Finland Mennonite Church - Pray for continued guidance, unity and direction through the upcoming pastoral transition time. Pray also for God’s blessing as the Finland congregation reaches out further into the community.
Thank you for your prayer support of Mennonite education. The Mennonite Education Agency has posted new Prayers for Faith and Learning for the month of March at www.MennoniteEducation.org/PRAYERS.
Quilters are needed to share their time and talents at Penn View while working to help complete the treasured 4th grade quilt, beginning Monday, March 2. Please join us for a time of quilting and fellowship as the quilters will be meeting on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. at the school, through the month of March. Feel free to stop by the main office any of these days and join in on the fun!
Karen’s Place, the coffee shop ministry of Doylestown Mennonite Church, will kick off the 9th Annual Blue-rock Madness Month on the first three Saturdays in March. Raging Grace, a Connecticut based blues-rock band, will be featured on Saturday, March 7 from 7:00 – 10:30 p.m. Admission is free. Donations collected will go to Mennonite Disaster Service to benefit hurricane victims in the Gulf area. Join this great time of Christian fellowship and music in a laid-back coffee-shop setting. For more information, please call the church office at 215-345-6377 or visit www.karensplace.org.
All are welcome to Evening Song and Prayer in the Taizé tradition at Perkasie Mennonite Church on Sunday, March 8 from 7 - 8 p.m. Using music from the Taizé community in France, as well as hymns of the church, come to gather in a candlelit atmosphere for scripture, song, silence, and prayers for our world, communities and loved ones.
You are invited to attend a Family Night Social & Volleyball Fundraiser at Christopher Dock on Monday, March 9 from 6:30 - 9:00 p.m. In addition to the volleyball tournament, there will be food, live music and a silent auction, with proceeds benefiting the Jeanine Musselman Scholarship Fund. A tithe will also support international attendees at this summer’s Mennonite World Conference in Paraguay. Call 215-362-2675 for more information or to register a volleyball team.
“See, I am doing a new thing!” Raising Hope 2009. On Sunday, March 29 at 6 p.m., join in a worship service of praise and thanksgiving for the new things that God is doing through Bridge of Hope BuxMont. The celebration is at Plains Mennonite Church, located at the corner of Welsh (Route 63) and Orvilla Roads. For more information go to www.bridgeofhopebuxmont.com or call 215-362-7640.
Men who want to get real with God are invited to the Sons of the Father Conference led by Gordon Dalbey, author and international speaker on Friday, April 17 – Sunday, April 19 at Souderton Mennonite Church. Gordon’s first book, Healing the Masculine Soul, helped pioneer the Christian Men’s movement in 1988. Registration is $65. Gordon will also preach at the 9:00 and 11:15 a.m. worship services at Souderton Mennonite Church on Sunday, April 19. In addition, both women and men are invited to a free seminar at 6 p.m. on Sunday to hear Gordon speak on “Daughters of the Father: Healing the Father-Wound in Women.” For a brochure and registration details, visit www.soudertonmennonite.org or call 215-257-3643.
You are invited to the 3rd Annual Liberty Ministries Benefit Concert on Sunday, April 19 at 7 p.m. at Salford Mennonite Church. This year the Harmonaires will be providing a free concert for all of those who support Liberty Ministries. During the concert, there will be prison ministry updates and personal testimonies. Admission is free. An offering will be received.
The PA Relief Sale’s Silent Auction needs you! In addition to the Quilt Auction and Country Auction at the PA Relief Sale on April 3 - 4 in Harrisburg, the Silent Auction is another opportunity to contribute to Mennonite Central Committee. You can help by donating valuables to sell or by volunteering to help at the silent auction. A variety of items can be donated: gift baskets, lovely gifts that you don’t want (birthday, wedding and anniversary), a weekend at Spruce Lake or someone’s cabin, a week at a Timeshare, jewelry, ceramics, paintings, restaurant certificates, stationary and stamps, china, theater/orchestra tickets, etc. Making a gift/theme basket can be an especially fun project for Sunday school classes, youth groups and families. Items are needed by March 31. Please contact Barbara Souder for donations, logistics and questions at ladysouder@gmail.com, 610-933-3991 (home) or 617-817-1000 (cell).
Job Opportunity
Needed: Childcare for winter bible study. Rocky Ridge Mennonite church is looking for childcare givers for 6 weeks on Wednesdays (6:30 to 8:45 p.m.) from February 25 to April 1 during a Winter Bible Study. The childcare would be for infants through grade 5 in two separate groups and suggested curriculum and activities would be available. One adult and two to three youth are needed. Compensation will be offered for services. Contact Karen Moyer at 267-784-4876 ASAP if you are interested.
More than 60 pastoral, lay and professional leaders, representing 17 different congregations and para-church organizations from across Southeastern Pennsylvania attended the forum led by Mennonite Health Services (MHS) Alliance’s Rick Stiffney.
Bringing participants current context to the forefront, Stiffney, who serves as the Presidnet/CEO of MHS Alliance, began the day by showing the group a montage of current national and local headlines. Participants then spent the day working together in their organizational teams through three interactive modules on leading, planning and building a strong team. The modules focused on the nature of the call to serve, exploring how leaders, whether pastor or CEO, can create effective partnerships with boards to carry forward long-range planning in their particular context.
Erin Price, Zion Mennonite Church, appreciated Stiffney’s practical apporach, “I found the training refreshing and energizing. It was great to take time out of the normal day to day business of a board and discuss where we want to go and how we can work better together. Rick’s simple and basic teachings gave us applicable things we could take with us as a board and put into practice. I’m not only inspired me to be a better leader, but also to mentor and encourage other leaders.”
Karen Moyer, Rocky Ridge Mennonite Church, also noted the significance of taking time off from the business side of board meetings, “The self-assessment for leadership practices and then the opportunity for individual reflection and discussion within our team was most valuable for us. As leaders, we too often meet for ‘business’ without reflection or feedback on how our leadership is perceived or received.”
“What was most valuable to our team was being given the time to process, dream and plan together in a way that is not normally possible,” noted Breant Camilleri, Associate Pastor of Deep Run East Mennonite Church. “I think that each of us felt challenged to reevaluate our leadership approach and to look at how we lead our congregation with a new sense of focus and purpose.”
Jr. High Lock-In Reminder!
Remember to register your jr. high youth for the annual Franconia and Eastern District Conference Lock-In by Friday, February 27; space is limited! The Lock-in is scheduled for March 13 – 14 from 9 p.m. - 7 a.m. at Christopher Dock Mennonite High School. Students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades are invited to come for a full night of fun and fellowship! Rodger Schmell, pastor at Deep Run West, will speak on this year’s theme Deeply Rooted and Nate Stucky will lead worship. For more information or to register your group, visit www.franconiaconference.org or click HERE. Please contact Marlene Frankenfield at mfrankenfield@franconiaconference.org or Melissa Landis at mlandis@franconiaconference.org with any questions.
Franconia Mennonite Conference Prayer Focus - Week of February 22 - 28, 2009
It is Camp Men-O-Lan’s desire and prayer for 2009 “that God may renew & reconnect Men-O-Lan to our Churches, and to effectively support and energize their youth, in becoming resolved followers of Christ, generational leaders and good stewards in our Communities.”
Attention all Music Directors and Worship Leaders: Worship Summit 2009 by Integrity will be a one day event held at Hope Valley Community Church in Red Hill, PA on Saturday, March 7 via satellite. The event will be from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., with a light lunch provided. Ticket prices are as follows: $49.00 per person for a group of 10 or more; $69.00 per person if you register by Feb. 2 (we still have a limited number of tickets at this price); $89.00 per person if you register after Feb. 2. For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact Lisa Landis, Ministry Director of Finland Mennonite Church, at 215-234-4045.
It’s time again for the Jr. High Lock-In! The event, sponsored by Franconia and Eastern District Conferences, is scheduled for March 13 - 14, 9 p.m. - 7 a.m. at Christopher Dock Mennonite High School. Students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades are invited to come for a full night of fun and fellowship! Rodger Schmell, pastor at Deep Run West, will speak on this year’s theme Deeply Rooted and Nate Stucky will lead worship. Youth will also be able to play a variety of games, sing karaoke, watch movies, participate in a Wii tournament, and much more! This year’s giving project will be collecting baby kits for MAMA Project. Registration deadline is Friday, February 27; space is limited. For more information or to register your group, youth sponsors click HERE. Please contact mfrankenfield@franconiaconference.org or mlandis@franconiaconference.org with any questions.
On March 30, 31, and April 1, you can help feed the hungry here and abroad by contributing your money or your time in support of the MCC Mobile Canner Project at Christopher Dock High School. An outpouring of support is necessary to embrace the compassionate call to help “meat” the needs of hundreds of thousands of hungry and starving people around the world. If you are interested in donating your time, please contact the Franconia Mennonite Conference Center at 215-723-5513 ext. 123. Tax-deductible contributions may be made payable to the “MCC Canner Project” and mailed to 771 Route 113, Souderton, PA 18964.
All are invited to the 7th Annual Regional Men’s Chorus Celebration at Weaverland Mennonite Church in East Earl, PA beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 29. Five men’s choruses, including an ensemble that sang together 45 years ago at Freeman Jr. College in South Dakota, will be participating in this concert featuring a variety of sacred music. Dr. Marles Preheim, Professor Emeritus of Music at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas, will lead both the ensemble he directed while teaching at Freeman Jr. College and the mass chorus. There is no admission charge but a freewill offering will benefit the work of Mennonite Central Committee.
PA Relief Sale! Join the festivities on April 3 and 4 at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg. Come for the food, bid on items at the Quilt Auction and Country Auction, and shop at the Ten Thousand Villages booth, flower booth and other artisan displays. Children will enjoy activities in the Children’s area including an auction just for them! Since 1957, all sale day proceeds, nearly $11 million to date, benefit the worldwide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee which include aid to the victims of poverty and other man-made and natural disasters. A schedule of events can be found at http://pareliefsale.org.
Catch the biggest trout! Come to Spruce Lake Retreat May 1 - 3, for Spring Family Weekend and the annual Trout Fishing Derby! The lake will be newly stocked for the event. You won’t have to drive far for this weekend of quality family time, plenty of fun, spiritual encouragement, and an evening concert by Joe Hesh and Caleb. Package price for a family of four – which includes almost everything – is $325.00. (Packages adaptable to fit your family size.) For reservations, call 800-822-7505 or visit www.sprucelake.org.
Job Opportunity
Dock Woods Community is looking for a full-time Activity Coordinator in the Skilled Nursing Unit. Job responsibilities include planning, organizing, directing and presenting activities. In addition, this team member will also be responsible for coordinating, orientating, supervising, instructing, and developing volunteers in the activities department. A therapeutic recreation degree and an ADC (Activities Director Certified) certificate are preferred. Interested candidates should send resume along with salary requirements to the HR Dept., 275 Dock Drive, Lansdale, PA 19446; fax to 215-565-2413; or email nmiller@dockwoods.com.
On February 21, one of Perkasie Patchwork Coffeehouse’s favorite bands returns to sing and play the night away as we look forward to spring. DayBreak and opening act Glass Roses will perform folk music at the Perkasie Patchwork Coffeehouse in the Perkasie Mennonite Church hall at 4th & Chestnut Streets in Perkasie, PA. Experience the warmth and energy of DayBreak on a winter’s night.
Doors open at 7 pm with performances at 7:30. Adults $9, Adults over 65 $7, Students 13 and up $4, 12 & under free. Refreshments will also be available for purchase.
The musicians of DayBreak have been harmonizing together in and around the Lehigh and Bucks Counties of Pennsylvania since 1990. The group includes Cliff Cole playing the hammered dulcimer, guitar, and percussion; Anna Lisa Yoder on the violin, mandolin and bouzouki; Rob Yoder on concertina, guitar, bodhrán, harp and mountain dulcimer. DayBreak also incorporates the musical skills of their children: Emily Cole on voice and pennywhistle, Trudy Yoder on cello, Lydia Yoder on violin and bodhrán, and Seth Yoder on hammered dulcimer and keyboard. Everyone lends their voices to a growing repertoire of winsome and compelling songs. DayBreak has performed in various settings including The Bethlehem Musikfest, Longwood Gardens, Godfrey Daniels Coffeehouse, The Allentown Mayfair, Foy Hall at Moravian College, Celtic Classic, Perkasie Patchwork Coffeehouse, Kutztown Pennsylvania German Festival and at various clubs and churches. Along with their three recordings, DayBreak is featured in the soundtrack for Expressions of Common Hands, a documentary on Pennsylvania German folk arts. Visit www.daybreakfolk.com for more information.
Opening act Glass Roses features daughter/father duo Emily Rose and Cliff Cole in combination with friend Rob Fedorczyk. This team combines hammered dulcimer, voice, tin whistle, slide and electric guitar, bass guitar, and percussion in genres from folk to folk rock. All three are experienced musicians and composers.
Check out our website at www.perkmenno.org for directions or more information, or call 215-723-2010.
Upcoming Perkasie Patchwork Coffeehouse shows:
March 21 – Wayfarers and Company + Steve Begley
April 16 – Ken Kolodner + Boys of County Bucks
May 16 – Kim & Reggie Harris
October 17 – Gordon Bok
November 21 - Charlie Zahm & Tad Marks + Unsafe At Any Speed
Franconia Mennonite Conference Prayer Focus - Week of February 15 - 21, 2009 Bethany Birches Camp, Vermont – Pray that Bethany Birches Camp may be open to the ways God wants to use their ministry, whether in old or new ways. Pray they may go with assurance that all it takes is willingness.
On Tuesday, February 17 at 7 p.m. the Peace and Justice Film series at Blooming Glen Mennonite Church will be showing Voices of Civil Rights. A group of journalists, photographers and videographers embark on a 70-day bus trip around the country uncovering a trove of civil rights memories and experiences through the small, personal stories of the men, women and children who lived through those turbulent times. The film was produced in 2006 by the History channel and Biography. Please call Sarah with questions at 215-510-2979.
It’s Penn View Hoagie Sale time again and the students are currently taking orders for the fundraiser that is being held this year on Tuesday, March 10. If you would like to order these delicious hoagies or Landis Supermarket hoagie coupons please notify a Penn View student in your congregation by Monday, February 23. Both the hoagies and the Landis coupons are being offered at $4.50. Volunteers are needed on Tuesday morning, March 10 to help on the assembly lines. If you can help, please call the school office at 215-723-1196 to sign up. Thank you for your support in helping us reach our goal of 10,000 hoagies sold!
All are invited to Methacton Mennonite Church on Friday, February 20 at 6:30 p.m. for a free movie. Our Friend Martin is a movie for kids with a message for everyone. Free popcorn and drinks will be provided.
You are invited to 24 hours of worship and prayer. Worship teams and prayer leaders will be leading in nonstop worship and prayer on Friday, February 20, 8 p.m. - Saturday, February 21, 8 p.m. at Hopewell Christian Fellowship, Telford.
All are welcome to attend the February prayer gathering of Franconia Conference on Saturday, February 28 from 1 – 3 p.m. (note change of time) at Souderton Mennonite Church. Come to worship, to pray and to be encouraged as we connect to each other and God. Noel Santiago, Executive Minister of Franconia Conference, will be sharing God’s word with the group. Time will also be spent in the House of Prayer in the Fellowship Hall of Souderton Mennonite Church. Come and be blessed!
Penn View Christian School presents Godspell Junior on Friday, February 27 and Saturday, February 28 at 7:30 p.m. Based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew, Godspell Junior is a groundbreaking and unique reflection on the life of Jesus, with a message of kindness, tolerance and love. To reserve tickets contact the main office at Penn View Christian School at 215-723-1196. Tickets will also be available at the door before each performance.
You are invited to an open house to celebrate the move of the MCC East Coast Regional Office to Philadelphia on Friday, March 6 from 4 - 8 p.m. at 900 E. Howell Street, Philadelphia, PA (plenty of parking space is available). Come see the new location and meet some new neighbors and friends in Philadelphia. Expect food and fun with a little something for the children as well. For further questions, please contact Nereida Babilonia, MCC East Coast Administrative Assistant in Philadelphia, at 215-316-9464.
There are 2 houses for rent adjacent to Methacton Mennonite Church in Worcester Township. If you have interest in a five bedroom colonial or a three bedroom rancher, call Paul Meyers Real Estate at 215-721-9444.
If Conrad Kanagy’s statistics on the profile of congregational leaders are accurate, the average Mennonite leader reading this article will remember, some even with nostalgia for a time when rebellion against the “establishment” was cool, the words of the Five Man Electrical Band’s hit song in 1970 – “Signs, signs, everywhere a sign.”
Yes, according to Kanagy, there are plenty of warning signs out there, and just as in the 70s, those of us who notice can view the signs in a variety of ways. For some of us, the signs that warn of an aging and shrinking Mennonite Church are “blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind.” We wish they were not there. For others, the response might be more like the final lyrics of the hit song, as we look the other way, “thank you Lord…I’m alive and doing fine.” But because Kanagy’s signs are carefully researched, reflecting both current reality and future implications, neither resenting nor dismissing the signs will likely help change the course of the Mennonite church.
The Mennonite Church USA is rapidly aging. There are clear signs of significant current and future decline that is only partially offset by those parts of the Mennonite church that are growing. These areas of growth are primarily the so-called “ethnic/racial” congregations, and new church plantings growing on the denominational margins.
Conrad Kanagy has made a number of vital recommendations in his book. From my perspective within Virginia Mennonite Conference, I would like to add some of my own observations.
My perspective includes the experience of helping to start Immanuel Mennonite Church some 13 years ago, a visionary congregation in Harrisonburg that brought together ethnic/racial, non-cradle and traditional Mennonites into one exciting, chaotic and, in some ways, radically Anabaptist group. It includes the struggle of planting a church in Munich, Germany more than 20 years ago, a diverse group that included young, alienated and marginalized new Christians, while trying to connect to the historically-rooted German Mennonites at the same time. Currently, as a professor of mission and culture at Eastern Mennonite University, my perspective includes the experiences of leading and listening to young Mennonite adults on learning expeditions in the Middle East and around the Mediterranean, far from the constraints and safety of their heritage. It includes teaching a course this past fall entitled “The Church in a Changing World” to 30 young adults, both Mennonite and from other traditions, who share a deep interest in the church, while not being very satisfied or involved in the church they grew up in.
So how should we respond to Kanagy’s signs? Are these signs of hope or warning? Or are they both, depending on how one looks at them and where one is looking from?
Let’s look at the implications of one of the clearest, most disturbing signs that Kanagy’s study points out – the rapid aging of the “cradle Mennonite” members of the Mennonite Church. This decline is offset only partially by a sign of hope – the significant growth of non-cradle Mennonites.
If there is both a pronounced decline among cradle Mennonites on one hand, and significant growth among racial/ethnic and other non-cradle Mennonites on the other, then profound, even radical change, is inevitable. The Mennonite Church as we know it today will not exist in the future. It will either continue to decline by mistaking the inertia of its rich heritage as progress and seeking to continue the trajectory of the past. Or it will be revitalized by experiencing a demographic, cultural, ecclesiological, theological and spiritual revival. Neither scenario is comforting for everyone, especially for those who are custodians of the heritage, leaders who have worked diligently and faithfully, who have invested their lives into achieving positions of influence in the denomination and who, as stakeholders in the denominational status quo, are keenly interested in maintaining and extending it.
While considerable effort by denominational leaders may be directed towards managing the resources from the institutional center of the denomination, it is the edges that are the most exciting, that have the most potential for either authentic renewal or colossal failure, just like all faith movements in Scripture and history demonstrate. Whether the Mennonite Church experiences slow death, rapid failure or sustainable renewal depends on the ability of denominational leaders to respond to the current and potential growth on the margins.
The margins include young adults who have grown up in the Mennonite church and attended its schools, who love Jesus and are committed to following him, but find the denomination irrelevant and even unfaithful in its successes and cultural conformity. The margins include non-Mennonite people with a growing interest for Anabaptist ideas and commitments, such as Shane Claiborne, Shane Hipps, Greg Boyd and students and professors at places like Fuller Theological Seminary. Within Virginia Mennonite Conference there are people like Ron Copeland of Our Community Place, racial/ethnic congregations, new congregations being planted and Emerging Churches, some with Mennonite identity and affiliations like The Table. These are signs of hope, but only if we heed them.
Hope in the time of denominational decline lies in the capacity for denominational institutions to seize the opportunity to change, to begin or continue to decentralize, to shift control of agendas and resources from the center of the denomination toward the margins. It means investing in young adults (according to Kanagy, persons 18-35 are three times more likely to start a new congregation than persons over that age bracket) and non-cradle Mennonite leaders, empowering them to participate in missional leadership opportunities in the world. It means accompanying young adults and non-cradle Mennonites as they take risks of change, giving them the genuine leadership responsibilities they seek and the freedom to experiment with ways of making the good news attractive, relevant, credible and powerful in the post-modern world. Paul did this at great personal risk. The Anabaptist leaders did this. They made mistakes, but the church grew with hopeful, energetic, creative and confident young leaders.
We Mennonites might fear denominational decline and death, but we are not on a dead end road. We are on the road toward the Kingdom, toward the future, through the world. The biblical story of faith is one where the people of God move toward the promise. The early church moved through the Empire toward the promise. The early Anabaptists moved through Christendom toward the promise. That is the road we are on but it is up to us to move on it.
That is the journey of faith Jesus calls us to. Jesus calls us to move with him, away from our edifices of modernity, our bulwarks of security that have become our prisons. Jesus calls leaders to follow him into the world, into the future and to take others with us. If we do so, we may well move from maintaining a denomination with modern institutions and assumptions, to an Anabaptist movement and network that is more authentically Christian and less culturally Mennonite. We may become an Anabaptist movement and network that innovates in mission and education, that creates decentralized and flexible structures that exist for the primary purpose of helping local congregations make the good news of the Kingdom visible, credible, relevant, attractive, prophetic and sustainable everywhere.
May we lead, educate, work and live toward this mandate, this promise and this vision. May the Mennonite Church in North America not only read the signs, but become a sign of hope, a sign of the Kingdom. May the church always move toward the future, into the world, with confidence in the risen Lord.
With the resignation of Elaine Moyer as principal at Christopher Dock Mennonite High School (Lansdale, PA), the school’s Board of Trustees has implemented a transition process.
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“Leadership is the art of inspiring others to want to work toward a shared vision” was the framing quote for the day long leadership forum, entitled Finding Our Way Together: Leadership in Challenging Times, held at 
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The musicians of DayBreak have been harmonizing together in and around the Lehigh and Bucks Counties of Pennsylvania since 1990. The group includes Cliff Cole playing the hammered dulcimer, guitar, and percussion; Anna Lisa Yoder on the violin, mandolin and bouzouki; Rob Yoder on concertina, guitar, bodhrán, harp and mountain dulcimer. DayBreak also incorporates the musical skills of their children: Emily Cole on voice and pennywhistle, Trudy Yoder on cello, Lydia Yoder on violin and bodhrán, and Seth Yoder on hammered dulcimer and keyboard. Everyone lends their voices to a growing repertoire of winsome and compelling songs. DayBreak has performed in various settings including The Bethlehem Musikfest, Longwood Gardens, Godfrey Daniels Coffeehouse, The Allentown Mayfair, Foy Hall at Moravian College, Celtic Classic, Perkasie Patchwork Coffeehouse, Kutztown Pennsylvania German Festival and at various clubs and churches. Along with their three recordings, DayBreak is featured in the soundtrack for 
Opening act Glass Roses features daughter/father duo Emily Rose and Cliff Cole in combination with friend Rob Fedorczyk. This team combines hammered dulcimer, voice, tin whistle, slide and electric guitar, bass guitar, and percussion in genres from folk to folk rock. All three are experienced musicians and composers.
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