With the whir of sewing machines, the snip of scissors and the hum of conversation as music to work by, volunteers across two continents completed 9,504 comforters as part of Mennonite Central Committee’s Great Winter Warm-up in January.
With the whir of sewing machines, the snip of scissors and the hum of conversation as music to work by, volunteers across two continents completed 9,504 comforters as part of Mennonite Central Committee’s Great Winter Warm-up in January.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Mennonite Church USA Executive Board revised the denomination’s policy for bringing resolutions to the national delegate assembly during a meeting Jan. 17-18.
A Pennsylvania man has been charged with fraud for targeting conservative Mennonites and Amish with a scheme that left nearly $60 million unpaid to investors in a Berks County creamery and investment program.
The U.S. Mennonite Brethren Board of Faith and Life has reaffirmed a policy that bars women from serving as lead pastors.
A conservative movement of congregations may depart the Church of the Brethren this year in what the recently named Covenant Brethren Church says is an effort to help churches prioritize biblical authority and maintain Brethren identity.
NEUWIED, Germany — Germans commemorated an infamous historic date during the annual meeting of European Mennonite leaders.
Mennonite schools are returning to routines after earthquakes struck Albania in November and Puerto Rico in January.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa. — In the late 1980s, Marilyn Houser Hamm, Ken Nafziger and Marlene Kropf began Laurelville’s Music and Worship Leaders Retreat when they gathered singers and musicians to test songs and resources for possible inclusion in what became Hymnal: A Worship Book.
Statements of regret, confession and grief for harm done to LGBTQ people punctuate the report of the Membership Guidelines Advisory Group. Mennonite Church USA policies “have done violence to the personhood of LGBTQ people,” says the report, released Jan. 27.
A Mennonite Church USA advisory group is recommending “retiring” the denomination’s Membership Guidelines and adopting a “healing practice of nondiscrimination” regarding LGBTQ people.
NEW HAMBURG, Ont. — Ten Thousand Villages Canada announced on Jan. 21 the closure of its corporate operations, including the head office and distribution center in New Hamburg, as well as wholesale operations, 10 company stores and its Canadian online store.
The executive directors of Mennonite Central Committee U.S. and MCC Canada sent the following letter Jan. 9.
