Regier has been traveling to the East Unit, a minimum-security section of Hutchinson Correctional Facility, regularly since last spring. This fall, Will Shoup, a senior literary studies major, joined her.
Violence and armed conflicts have forced hundreds of thousands of people to seek safety in neighboring countries and within Ukraine. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and wounded.
“Every person has to decide how to respond,” said . . .
The Kennells, of Albuquerque, N.M., are North American ambassadors for SEMILLA, a role they took on this year. They returned Nov. 30 from a three-week trip through five countries, where they met with eight groups of students.
They asked students about their experience with SEMILLA — good and bad — as well as their hopes and dreams for the school.
This was the undertaking at Mennonite Disaster Service over the last two years. The bulk of the work took place at MDS’s warehouse locations in Columbus, Miss., and Lititz, Pa. Longtime MDS volunteers Lloyd and Irene Letkeman . . .