The Costco-style black coffee burns on the slow heat downstairs in the break room at MB Biblical Seminary as members of the staff and administration brave the California winter in order to crank up for another year at good old MBBS.With the forecast predicting a barrage of nasty winter storms for central California poised to drop almost 2 inches of rain, the storm windows are locked and loaded. Fortunately for everyone, the work ethic around here says, "Rain? Winter? We don't need no stinking winter! Put on another pot of the good old black sludge and let's get to work!"
Dedicated to bringing the best in theological, pastoral and therapeutic training, MB Biblical Seminary -- an evangelical anabaptist seminary -- unlocked the doors, welcomed in 2008, and said, "Let's learn."
"Oh yes, we're excited about the new year," said Nancy Williams, secret operative for the Black Sludge Coffee Drinkers of the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary club. "In fact, just this morning I made a pot of coffee designed to keep all of the staff awake, alert and smiling as they provide the utmost in customer service. Don't tell anyone, but I put in two extra scoops of grounds into that first pot..."
So as 2008 begins, the staff and others at MB Biblical Seminary dedicates itself to drinking a lot of coffee and making sure that MBBS continues to offer top notch, high quality training and equipping of people for ministry in the church and in the world. Good coffee always helps as we seek to explain our evangelical and anabaptist theology.
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