{"id":19226,"date":"2022-07-26T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=19226"},"modified":"2022-07-27T03:53:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T03:53:17","slug":"brethren-history-in-three-minutes-more-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/brethren-history-in-three-minutes-more-or-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Brethren history in three minutes (more or less)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Performed by NYCers Quinera Bumgardner from Stone Church of the Brethren in Huntingdon, Pa., and Jeffrey Copp from Columbia City (Ind.) Church of the Brethren; written by Walt Wiltschek<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In seventeen-oh-eight–
Write that down, that\u2019s the date–
There\u2019s a guy called Alex Mack;
Said the church is out of whack.
So this group, they made a vow,
In the town of Schwarzenau.
It’s not going like God planned,
So we have to take a stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight dunked in the Eder,
\u2019Spite the law and the haters;
Faith put to the test,
So they looked to the west,
Took a ship, crossed the ocean,
And they put their church in motion;
Praised the Lord, settled down,
In a place called Germantown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mack\u2019s son and Peter Becker
Start to do some work together,
Do a Christmas Day baptism
\u2018Neath the ice of Wissahickon.
Sauers printing what they could,
Glory to God, my neighbor\u2019s good;
Count the cost of non-resistance
When the war gets in your business!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jeffrey Copp and Quinera Bumgardner perform the Brethren history rap. Photo by Laura Brown<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Make sure all have what they need,
But we\u2019ll do fine without a creed.
Conrad Beissel stirs up strife,
Goes to live a cloistered life.
Mission trips head for the hills,
Preach the Word and do God\u2019s will;
Elder Wolfe says, \u201cDon\u2019t stop there,\u201d
and they head for the frontier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Kline goes to South and North,
Till he\u2019s shot while on his horse;
Henry Kurtz breaks out his pen,
And Sarah Major shames the men.
Annual meetings, hear the Spirit,
Change is coming, will we fear it?
Breaking bread, a feast of love,
On earth like heaven up above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mattie Dolby, Samuel Weir,
Saying things we need to hear.
Colleges and Sunday school,
While Holsinger says, \u201cJust be cool!\u201d
Guidance came from old James Quinter,
But the church began to splinter,
Anabaptist, Pietism–
Three-way split, we have a schism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goshen statement, that\u2019s seditious,
Brethren shaking in their britches;
Bethany starts training pastors;
Camps and homes, we\u2019re growing faster!
Kulp and Helser, Ryan, Stovers,
Spread the church the whole world over;
Seeds still growing till this day,
And Africa now leads the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the wake of devastation,
Brethren show cooperation.
M.R. Zigler, Anna Mow,
Dan West says, \u201cHey, have a cow!\u201d
And when each disaster strikes,
Brethren go by car or bike.
One bold call starts BVS;
When we serve, we\u2019re at our best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Move to cities from the farm,
C.O. status, Vietnam;
Studebaker doesn\u2019t run:
I want a shovel, not a gun.
We respond to global hunger,
While we care for kids and younger;
From our gifts we keep on giving,
It\u2019s another way of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staff in Elgin and New Windsor,
Our small size will never hinder.
As the decades keep on moving,
We find God goes right on proving
That we\u2019re strongest when we see us
Try to do the work of Jesus.
That\u2019s the word, three centuries–
And here we are at NYC. Peace!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— Walt Wiltschek is serving as one of the worship coordinators for National Youth Conference 2022, where this rap was performed during the morning worship service on Tuesday, July 26. He is executive minister of Illinois and Wisconsin District and on the editorial team for the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Messenger magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In seventeen-oh-eight–
\nWrite that down, that\u2019s the date–
\nThere\u2019s a guy called Alex Mack;
\nSaid the church is out of whack.
\nSo this group, they made a vow,
\nIn the town of Schwarzenau.
\nIt’s not going like God planned,
\nSo we have to take a stand….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[3,259,2255,1320,2062],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-19226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-national-youth-conference","tag-national-youth-conference-2022","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-2022"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19232,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19226\/revisions\/19232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19226"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=19226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}