Representatives from Wisconsin & Chicago-area Mennonite churches: Milwaukee, Madison, Maple Avenue (Waukesha), Evanston, and Chicago Community, gathered at Milwaukee Mennonite Church on March 13, 2010 to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the conference's polity, to fellowship, to pray, to sing, and to eat together. Below are some of the items congregations brought to share that were symbolic of their church community.