No matter the format, communication remains key
Some of the 35 youth who gave their lives to Christ during an August Bible camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo had been conscripted by forces of the Kamuina Nsapu rebellion in 2017. The anti-government revolt devastated the Nyanga area, killing people and plundering fields and homes.
COVID-19 has forced many people to embrace new forms of resilience, often spurring creativity. Two Lancaster, Pa., leaders serving the refugee and immigrant communities have been doing just that: Patience Buckwalter, executive director of the Grape Leaf Empowerment Center, and Krista Martin, Eastern Mennonite Missions Kingdom Team director.
When Ricardo Munoz was fatally shot by a police officer Sept. 13 in Lancaster, Pa., it wasn’t just a call to action for how the community responds to mental health and racial concerns, it redefined the concept of holy ground for Laurel Street Mennonite Church.
Mennonite Church USA colleges and universities will host a series of virtual Family Nights in conjunction with their Mennonite College Days schedule because COVID-19 has made an in-person collaborative travel schedule not possible.
South Central Mennonite Conference is beginning a year of discernment about whether to remain affiliated with Mennonite Church USA. The yearlong “Discovery Process” began after the conference’s July 25-26 online annual assembly and is the third step in a three-year process of discernment and discovery.
Garry and Kate Mayhew were cleaning up after dinner in their Beirut, Lebanon, apartment on Aug. 4 when they felt the ground shake just before they heard the boom, so loud and so powerful it threw them to the floor.
It can pay for a Mennonite Central Committee relief sale to try out an online auction. Prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, many sales around the U.S. and Canada are shifting to virtual events, often with positive results.
