The Italian Mennonite Church celebrated its 75th anniversary July 19-21 with an international gathering at new and old churches in Palermo.
The Italian Mennonite Church celebrated its 75th anniversary July 19-21 with an international gathering at new and old churches in Palermo.
Eduardo “Lalo” Hinojosa, 81, a pastor influential in the growth of Mennonite congregations in Brownsville and the South Texas border region, died June 3 in Houston.
Nguyen Quang Trung, 84, who led the Vietnam Mennonite Church through the hardships of restriction to official recognition, died March 23.
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.