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Children’s home a Fortress of Hope

In 2008, members of Maple Grove Mennonite Church in Hartville, Ohio, turned $1,000 into $13,000 — and it launched a new mission trajectory.

According to Myron Weaver, the pastor at that time, each family was given $10 to multiply if they could. The $13,000 yield was collected at a harvest offering a few months later.

A large portion went to fund went to . . .

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

May 29, 2015

10 observations for these days

Thoughts from a seasoned pastor and former church executive 1. Anabaptism has always been diverse. “Will the real Anabaptist please stand up.” In any Mennonite

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May 27, 2015

White supremacy and class privilege in Detroit

They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and take them away; they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance.—Micah 2:2 Last year, my wife

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May 27, 2015

Hymns unite Swiss Reformed, Anabaptists

LEOLA, Pa. — A different kind of hymn sing took place May 6 at the Reiff farm near Leola.

Twenty people from Switzerland, mostly from the Reformed Church tradition, gathered with a wide variety of U.S. Anabaptists for worship.

Dale D. Gehman | For Mennonite World Review

May 25, 2015

How to get along with Romans (and other church folk)

Lessons from the Apostle Paul for the weak and the strong In his letter to the Romans, Paul writes to a church community of two

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May 25, 2015

Cycles of violence, cycles of virtue

The book of Judges is full of odd and graphic vignettes of violence, not unlike what one might see in a medieval action movie. Shamgar

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May 25, 2015

Pastoral ministry advocate: John Esau

An irony of his life is that during seminary in the early 1960s, his peers told him he wasn’t really suited for pastoral ministry, said

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May 22, 2015

Active year sees Mennonite schools merge, close

The boards of two Pennsylvania Mennonite schools have approved a plan to integrate into one unified school system with a single superintendent and board.

Penn View Christian School, a K-8 school in Souderton, will merge with Christopher Dock Mennonite High School in Lansdale. Each school’s board voted to do so in mid-April.

Penn View has 565 students in nine . . .

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

May 11, 2015

In a reversal of Babel, languages no barrier to building church in Congo

A global village came together in February to raise the rafters of a new building that will house Kanzala Mennonite Church in Tshikapa, Congo. Three

Lynda Hollinger-Janzen | Mennonite Mission Network

May 11, 2015

Newness of hope in the midst of disappointment

This is the last of four Bible studies by different authors on the key Scripture text for Mennonite Church USA’s next biennial convention, to be

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May 7, 2015

Why care about the environment?

Sometimes modern Christians, in our excitement about Jesus, think the incarnation of God first happened 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem. Actually, when we Christians get

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May 6, 2015

Healing trauma from abuse in faith communities

Powerful feelings and reactions emerge when faith communities realize that a faith leader has harmed someone. Fortunately, most faith communities have leaders who care deeply

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May 5, 2015

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