William (Bill) Janzen, former director of Mennonite Central Committee Canada’s Ottawa Office, is being appointed to the Order of Canada in July in recognition of his contributions to government policy, refugee resettlement, citizenship, development aid and peacebuilding.
I did not want to leave my home. I did not want to leave Mexico. But today I embrace where I am in Kansas and thank God that I met amazing people here.
Stefany Cortes, a senior at Freeman Academy in South Dakota, won the top prize for her essay on immigration in the annual Mennonite Central Committee U.S. National Peace & Justice Ministries public policy essay contest.