Mennonite Church USA is helping to fuel growth and diversity with its Thrive Church Planting Grants. This year’s repeat award recipients, Brooklyn Peace Church in New York and Community of Hope Mennonite Church in Bellingham, Wash., are building circles of community in creative, Jesus-centered ways.
Rod Suderman, 63, a former mission worker in Taiwan and China and Mennonite Central Committee regional representative in Northeast Asia, died Sept. 2 of anaplastic thyroid cancer in Surrey, B.C.
Mennonite Church Eastern Canada, an area church of Mennonite Church Canada, will welcome diverse congregations from Ontario and Quebec into membership during its annual meeting April 29-30 at Redeemer University in Ancaster, Ont.