New policy catches up with practice, allows service on teams but not as individuals
Twenty years ago last fall, Ruth Yoder Wenger was licensed by Lancaster Mennonite Conference to serve as lead pastor of North Bronx Mennonite Church in New York City. Wenger’s licensing was one of several that have defined the presence of women in ministerial roles in the conference, now known as LMC, over the last few decades.
After voting to welcome and affirm LGBTQ people, a Mennonite Brethren congregation in California is waiting to see how its district will terminate its membership.
Joren Basumata, 80, former leader of Bharatiya Jukta Christa Prachar Mandali (Indian United Christ Evangelistic Church, or BJCPM) died Oct. 15.
The man convicted in October of kidnapping and murdering a New Mexico Mennonite woman was sentenced to life in prison two years after committing the crimes.
Anabaptist World call for submissions: “Service — Loving by doing”
About 50 people were sentenced to death Jan. 29 in the Democratic Republic of Congo in connection to the 2017 murders of United Nations investigators Michael J. Sharp and Zaida Catalán.
Tornado survivors in Mayfield, Ky., worked alongside volunteers from Mennonite Disaster Service as they hauled away the heaviest debris in freezing temperatures in January.
