Photo: Artist Kris Shenk, Goshen, Ind., displayed a piece made of "upcycled" items--household items that had once been discarded--at the Mennonite Arts Weekend in Cincinnati
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Fort Collins Mennonite Fellowship’s sanctuary is just that for the community’s homeless. The city has 150,000 people yet only two homeless shelters. Its homeless population is twice as great as the number of shelter beds. Sixty percent of the homeless are families.
The next chapter for the German Mennonite Historical Society is chronicling steps to modernize the group’s research center while digging deeper into the past. In October, University of Regensburg history professor Astrid von Schlachta began as director of the Mennonite Research Center in Weierhof. She is sharing the position in a one-year transition period with Gary Waltner, who will step aside in October after decades of work that literally built the research center from the ground up.
