Members of churches in many Mennonite World Conference national bodies are experiencing unemployment and hunger due to shortages of food and income. This has led to contributions that are below budget, reported chief operating officer Len Rempel in November to the MWC Executive Committee during a virtual meeting.
Following an extensive review, Multiply — the global mission organization of the Canadian and U.S. Mennonite Brethren Churches — has decided to release its president, Randy Friesen.
Anabaptist Disabilities Network and Discipleship Ministries of the Church of the Brethren will co-sponsor a free webinar with Amy Julia Becker, “Do We Want to Get Well? Healing What Divides Us,” Jan. 21.
A new children’s book by a Manitoba author and illustrator addresses racism through hockey and adoption.
Mennonite Church USA announced Jan. 5 it is continuing to plan for both in-person and virtual programming at its biennial convention, scheduled for July 6-10 at Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati.
A man who was charged this summer with kidnapping a Lancaster County, Pa., Amish teenager has now been charged with her murder. Linda Stoltzfoos, 18, disappeared June 21 while walking home from church to her parents’ Upper Leacock Township home.
Mennonite Creation Care Network announced Dec. 23 that Wendy Janzen of Kitchener, Ont., is the 2020 recipient of its Art and Jocele Meyer Award.
Samuel S. Funkhouser began his role as executive director of the Brethren & Mennonite Heritage Center in Harrisonburg, Va., on Jan. 1.
On the morning of Jan. 6, an interfaith group of religious leaders gathered outside of Luther Place Memorial Church in Washington. For two hours, the clergy prayed for an end to violence, for an eradication of white nationalism and for a groundswell of racial justice.
After 45 years of Mennonite Mission Network ministry based in France, Janie and Neal Blough are beginning a stage of life they call reorientation rather than retirement.
Mennonite Brethren participants addressed how to hold a position opposing Medical Assistance in Dying, yet offer a pastoral presence in a culture that says yes to it, in a Nov. 24 Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary webinar titled “Navigating MAID.”
Everence, Mennonite Central Committee U.S. and Mennonite Disaster Service are inviting donors to contribute to the COVID-19 Congregational Relief Fund and have announced an additional match of $50,000 to assist churches facing financial crisis due to the pandemic.
