About 15 former Mennonite Voluntary Service participants and members of two host congregations gathered Aug. 7 to honor the closing of Mennonite Mission Network’s 42-year-old Washington, D.C., MVS unit.
About 15 former Mennonite Voluntary Service participants and members of two host congregations gathered Aug. 7 to honor the closing of Mennonite Mission Network’s 42-year-old Washington, D.C., MVS unit.
Responding to concerns about an LGBTQ-affirming resolution that Mennonite Church USA delegates approved in May, Virginia Mennonite Conference leaders issued a statement saying the conference upholds the Confession of Faith and maintains a policy of suspending the ministry credential of any pastor who conducts a same-sex marriage ceremony.
Anabaptist Disabilities Network has created a study guide for the Mennonite Church USA Accessibility Resolution, which delegates approved in May.
Mennonite Church USA released a summary of a 2021 membership study on May 27. Titled “The Mennonite Experience,” the study was conducted by Springtide Research Institute and is the first since Conrad Kanagy’s Road Signs for the Journey was published in 2007.
Mennonite Church USA has engaged professional facilitators to help create a comfortable and safe environment for discussions at its May 27-30 special delegate assembly in Kansas City, Mo.
