Edmund Janzen, 88, president of Fresno Pacific University from 1975 to 1985 during a teaching career that included a stint at Tabor College and other church leadership roles, died April 14 at his home in Fresno, Calif.
Edmund Janzen, 88, president of Fresno Pacific University from 1975 to 1985 during a teaching career that included a stint at Tabor College and other church leadership roles, died April 14 at his home in Fresno, Calif.
From 1962 to 1991, Mennonite-related organizations operated residential schools for Indigenous people in northwestern Ontario. On March 6-8, 30 survivors from those schools gathered in Dryden, Ont., to tell their stories and begin their healing journeys.
Bethel College President Jon C. Gering will leave his position at the end of June. He has served as president since January 2018.
MennoMedia and Brethren Press are partnering to create a new quarterly Bible study curriculum.
Multnomah University was facing the end of its days. “We have cried, prayed, and walked a difficult path together as a community,” the Christian school’s president, Jessica Taylor, said in a 2023 video. “Without God’s provision, there was no path forward.”
Low enrollment and an ongoing budget deficit have prompted Freeman Academy in South Dakota to close at the end of this school year.
The Amsterdam Centre for Religion and Peace & Justice Studies is presenting a free online course on Tuesdays this spring on Mennonite peace theology and ethics.
While the restoration of Hesston College’s J.D. Charles Hall of Science and Arts moved ahead after a May 9 fire, the fate of feathered friends in the building remained uncertain.
Today is a wonderful day (November 13)! My youngest sister, Salsabeel (19), just learned that she had passed her high school exams with a 95.4 % average. She hopes this high score will enable her to study abroad and become a doctor.
Two Pennsylvania schools, Dock Mennonite Academy in Lansdale and Lancaster Mennonite School, hosted Anabaptist leaders from Ethiopia in October.
The higher education institutions affiliated with Mennonite Church USA, Mennonite Church Canada and the Mennonite Brethren denominations in the U.S. and Canada have released fall enrollment statistics, many revealing impacts of government shifts regarding international student visas.
A mix of vision, necessity and desire for unity led the Mennonite Brethren Church of Manitoba and Mennonite Church Canada to merge their colleges in Winnipeg to create Canadian Mennonite University in 2000. And that spirit continues today.
