Eastern Mennonite University - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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Community is hard to find on this campus — but it does exist. It’s not found in flashing, self-sufficient neon signs or in the blast of a brassy horn. You can find it here and there in dusty corners or the plainness of a quiet face among the crowd. We must get out of ourselves and start reaching out for others if we are to have community among us. We've got to be free to be real. — student Darrell G. Miller Joan Miller During the year, such occasions as the unique amount of student involvement in the fall revival week, the student partici- pation in the conference on the Holy Spirit, the development of student groups for gospel teams, for low cost housing, for student participation in Probe ‘72, and other similar experiences are evi- dence that Christian community is the very real dynamic at EMC. — faculty

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| think we’ve experienced community in ways this year that we haven’t before. Our views didn’t become more alike, but our acceptance of that person and his views became more real. On the other hand, there have been times when we didn’t experience community; and those times were when someone said, “My experience is the only valid experience and you must have it too.”’ Hubert Pellman — student aon Elton Horst Irene Kanagy

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| have been told that at one time, everybody had to be in a K group at EMC. | can imagine how | would have felt about that last year. Quite paranoid, | assure you. Community at EMC began for me when a few of those who had already experienced it did some not too overtly Christian things. Nobody slammed me in the face with a verse. It was more like seeing that people were indeed finding completeness in Him. As some of that completeness was imparted to me, | began to be able to stand the idea of a prayer group. Miriam Kennel — student Bible department faculty Barb Rich, Geroge Hostetler, Ruben Padilla : ae ap ae as : 4 ee ? § 11