First Mennonite Church in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., is sharing its story about being an inclusive congregation embracing LGBTQ people in a video available online.
First Mennonite Church in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., is sharing its story about being an inclusive congregation embracing LGBTQ people in a video available online.
The Women in Leadership ministry of Mennonite Church USA has released a Bible-based curriculum that explores the roots of patriarchy — a social structure in which men hold power.
Leaders within Illinois Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA released a statement encouraging forbearance concerning ministerial credentialing at the conference’s March 6 annual assembly, a year after the conference passed a resolution committing to a year of study while neither removing nor conferring credentials to pastors in same-sex marriages.
For years, Mennonite Church USA convention planners have wanted to offer an online option. The pandemic is pushing the convention across the virtual frontier, with in-person attendance expected to fall far below previous years for the July 6-10 event in Cincinnati.
Akron Mennonite Church hopes to break ground on a four-acre Akron Memory Garden and Nature Preserve, which will incorporate the existing burial ground and repurpose a large lawn to include a nature preserve and education area, walking paths and columbarium.
