Challenges accompany the joys of growth as tens of thousands of people new to Ethiopia’s Meserete Kristos Church swell the denomination.
Now with more than 600,000 participants, the world’s largest Anabaptist conference struggles to train enough pastors, find adequate meeting spaces and keep vehicles maintained for its teachers, who travel to distant outposts on rough roads.
TEMPE, Ariz. — Enough U.S. Mennonite Brethren want to allow women as lead pastors that they’ve opened an official discussion about it.
Recognizing diversity of belief, they want to build unity and understanding, whether or not the policy changes someday.
Among the lists of those disappeared during the dark times in what is now Ukraine, researchers have found roughly 400 pages of Mennonite names, with five or six names per page. That is just for Zaporizhzhia province.
Emma Jean Landis saw a need and found a way to fill it. She was just that kind of person.
One of the many ways the late Tunkhannock, Pa., resident did so was by quilting and making comforters for Mennonite Central Committee with her daughter Karen Alderfer of Athens, Pa.
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — In a region that thousands of Mennonites left generations ago, two dozen of today’s Mennonite leaders from across Europe gathered for three days of fellowship in October.
NEWTON, Kan. — A couple of months after the 2017 wheat harvest, Carol Duerksen imagined a different kind of harvest, one that could yield a crop of Anabaptist online curriculum that was cost-effective and downloadable.
Another congregation has joined the ranks of Mennonite churches publicly giving sanctuary to individuals facing U.S. deportation orders.
For years, North American Anabaptists have been realigning — breaking old affiliations, forging new relationships, revising church structures to fit changing times.
In 2018, two conferences tried a new strategy — rebranding.
She was nearly blind, overweight and shuffling into our front hallway. Our neighbor was poor but anticipated her children being together for supper.
TSHIKAPA, Congo — Violence in the Kasaï region has diminished during the past year, but the economic struggles that inspired the fighting persist. An alliance of international Anabaptist organizations continues responding to needs.
A Congolese army colonel has been arrested in connection to the death of a Mennonite United Nations investigator.
Braving frigid winds and a temperature below the freezing point, about 100 people gathered Nov. 10 at Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach, Man., to dedicate a statue honoring an Anabaptist martyr defined by an act on thawing ice.
