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Call to serve abroad is a ‘remarkable adventure’

CAPINGA, Mozambique — Rebecca Standen wears a headlamp to light the way and checks a pot of chima bubbling over the fire outside her tiny

Mennonite Central Committee

February 2, 2015

United for a safe community

FRESNO, Calif. — The Goliath they face is huge: gang violence, unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse and more. But, like David, United Faith Christian Fellowship is boldly stepping up to the challenge.

The violence hit home for the small Mennonite Brethren congregation a couple of years ago when a neighborhood house was hit by gunfire in a gang altercation. The home belonged to the parents of a young woman in the church family and shook up the congregation.

Kathy Heinrichs Wiest | For Christian Leader

January 30, 2015

Coming to church

Church is a place for the vulnerable, not just those who have it all together This is the aftermath of the disaster that spread throughout

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January 30, 2015

Mennonite Mecca in the rifted rock

Like the early Anabaptists, we are called to follow the rule of Paul. During a wintry trip to Switzerland, my friend Erik and I decided

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January 30, 2015

How I pray: A journey of faith in the absence of certainty

A bestseller in the year 2000, The Prayer of Jabez quotes 1 Chronicles 4: 10, where Jabez cries out to God, “ ‘Oh, that you

anna

January 30, 2015

Praying with Jesus for unity

The difference praying for unity can make in our lives and congregations Silence, prayer, work, worship. Mennonites living like this? We tried it. Thirty years

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January 30, 2015

The woman behind ‘Mennonite Community Cookbook’

February cover story: A look at the life and influence of Mary Emma Showalter (1913-2003) Many Mennonites today know Mary Emma Showalter Eby as the

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January 30, 2015

An ‘earth keeper’

Jon Zirkle weeds outside in the Goshen, Ind., area. Photo provided. After a long day of feeding the chickens, mixing soil, and monitoring produce, Jon

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January 27, 2015

AMBS students join Fort Benning SOA witness

ELKHART, Ind. — For the students who traveled from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary to Fort Benning, Ga., in November, the experience of witnessing for peace and justice raised questions while it inspired and challenged them.

Taylor Dwyer-Zeman, Katerina Friesen and Sandra Stevens participated in the Nov. 21-22 march on the Stewart Detention . . .

Mary E. Klassen | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

January 19, 2015

In Benin, economic empowerment born out of tragedy

COTONOU, Benin — It took the death of a child to create a community bank that brings more abundant life to many people in Benin.

Lynda Hollinger-Janzen | Mennonite Mission Network

January 19, 2015

Bluffton forum game show puts Ebola in context

BLUFFTON, Ohio — The emphasis was on perspective in “Ebola and Fear: A Public Health Perspective,” offered by Ross Kauffman Jan. 6 in a Bluffton

Bluffton University

January 19, 2015

Planting opportunity, rebuilding lives

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Breezes flutter the sheer fabric hanging in the doorway of Gladys Joseph’s new home in Cabaret, 24 miles outside Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. There’s room in the yard for her children to play. And, for the first time since she was sent to Haiti’s capital city as a child, she’s able to have a garden — corn, beans, manioc and okra.

Five years after a devastating earthquake tore across Port-au-Prince . . .

Marla Pierson Lester | Mennonite Central Committee

January 12, 2015