Tanzanian Mennonites’ gift to Anabaptists around the world is their ability to retain youth in the church, said Leah Makoyo, a former Tanzanian church leader, during a visit to Pennsylvania.
Riki Neufeld, a pastor at Schänzli Evangelical Mennonite Church in Muttenz, Switzerland, is this year’s recipient of the Menno Simons Sermon Prize.
Mennonite Central Committee and its partners in Burundi are working together to respond to immense needs after torrential rainfall and a series of floods and landslides displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
The Mennonite Brethren conference in Colombia has called on the global Anabaptist family to support them in prayer after the La Samaritana MB congregation in La Toma gave shelter in May to about 300 people fleeing violence between illegal groups and the army.
The Movement of Anabaptist Women Doing Theology from Latin America, or MTAL, celebrated its 20th anniversary with a workshop in El Salvador on April 14-16.
Mennonite World Conference’s Executive Committee accepted churches from Tananzia and Ukraine as new members and approved funding for theological education during meetings April 8-11 in Curitiba, Brazil.
Nguyen Quang Trung, 84, who led the Vietnam Mennonite Church through the hardships of restriction to official recognition, died March 23.