Ministry born out of Katrina

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — Thi Nguyen was attending a Vietnamese Mennonite church in Philadelphia when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. He wanted to help and was invited to travel to Bayou La Batre as a service worker for the Mennonite Central Committee.

Over the two years he served with MCC, he was a translator and an adviser for many Vietnamese people.

“I got attached to this place,” he said.

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September 14, 2015

With grants, MCC assists displaced in Iraq, Syria

It’s been a year since Qasim left his home in Sinjar, Iraq. He was fleeing an advance by the Islamic State — the same advance that left tens of thousands of other Yazidis stranded in the mountains, trapped between hunger and dehydration and the threat of mass violence.

Qasim and his parents and three brothers, along with their wives and children, were able to get away from Sinjar, to a . . .

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September 14, 2015

High seas service

HESSTON, Kan. — A much older and landlocked group of “sea­going cowboys,” who first saw the wider world while caring for livestock aboard ships bound for post-World War II Europe, gathered for a reunion Aug. 31.

The attendees were volunteer cattlemen in the late 1940s — at the time fresh from high school or in college and looking for adventure. Today, the 14 men who . . .

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September 14, 2015

Piling up debt

D. Merrill Ewert and Patricia A. Anderson do the Mennonite community a good service by drawing attention to our colleges’ dependence on government subsidy (“The

September 14, 2015

Profile surveys world’s Anabaptists

Sociological surveys may be uncommon evangelistic tools, but Damien Pelende of the Democratic Republic of Congo found the Global Anabaptist Profile survey drew new people to his church.

The two-year project — a joint initiative of Mennonite World Conference and the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism at Go­shen (Ind.) College — profiled the demographics, beliefs and practices of 24 church conferences . . .

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September 14, 2015
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