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Radio broadcast celebrates Mennonites at Goshen

GOSHEN, Ind. — For those in the audience, the May 2 live performance of A Prairie Home Companion at Goshen College was a show they’ll never forget. But for the 27 students in the college’s Chamber Choir, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Brian Yoder Schlabach | Mennonite World Review

May 5, 2015

Board’s resolution ‘tests’ Membership Guidelines

Announcing a new resolution for delegates May 4, the Mennonite Church USA Executive Board says it is “testing the status” of the denomination’s Membership Guidelines.

The resolution asks delegates at the June 30-July 5 convention in Kansas City to reaffirm the Guidelines and the . . .

Mennonite Church USA | Mennonite World Review staff

May 4, 2015

Small Canadian conference puts ‘Christian’ first

The Chortitzer Mennonite Conference, with 10 congregations in western Canada, has chosen a simpler name. At their annual meeting in Steinbach, Man., on April 18,

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

May 4, 2015

EMU president announces retirement

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Eastern Mennonite University President Loren E. Swartzendruber announced April 30 that he plans to retire June 30, 2016.

The date will mark 13 years of leadership as the university’s eighth president and 33 years in Mennonite higher education, including 10 years as president of Hesston (Kan.) College.

Eastern Mennonite University | Mennonite Education Agency

May 4, 2015

MCC responds with food, shelter, supplies in Nepal

Mennonite Central Committee will begin its Nepal earthquake response by working with a local organization in the remote, eastern area of the country, providing food and other essential items to affected families.

Support for about 200 families in Okhaldhunga District will assist people whose homes are no longer safe for use and who have less than one week of food available. Priority will be given to female-led households, and households . . .

Julie Bell | Mennonite Central Committee

April 30, 2015

MWC visa problems fewer than feared

People who need visas to attend the Mennonite World Conference assembly in Harrisburg, Pa., July 21-26 have encountered fewer problems than expected. For more than

Mennonite World Conference

April 27, 2015

It’s time for a new hymnal

The time is near for the next generation’s hymnal. Scheduled for release in 2020, it will be more than a printed book.

Representatives from MennoMedia, Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church USA laid the foundation for a new song collection at an April meeting in Minneapolis.

The collection will include an electronic version as well as other supporting products.

The new volume will replace the 1992 Hymnal: A Worship Book, which succeeded the 1969 Mennonite Hymnal.

MennoMedia

April 27, 2015

East Africans strengthen training for rural pastors

MWANZA, Tanzania — Mennonite bishops in Tanzania and Kenya are striving to meet the need for local, affordable training for village pastors.

They are working with Eastern Mennonite Missions workers Joe and Gloria Bontrager, who are implementing a curriculum and model for training leaders.

The Bontragers begin by traveling to . . .

Chris Fretz, Amanda Miller | Eastern Mennonite Missions

April 27, 2015

Year after girls’ abduction, Nigerians’ hearts still ache

The Church of the Brethren in Nigeria continues to mourn the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls — and members’ loss of life and property — a year after the kidnapping.

On April 14, 2014, the Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram took 276 girls from their secondary boarding school, built by Brethren mission workers in the 1940s . . .

Mennonite World Review staff

April 27, 2015

Indiana-Michigan cites Goshen pastor’s ‘variance’ for same-sex ceremony

Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference has identified a Goshen, Ind., pastor as at variance with its teaching position for officiating a same-sex covenant ceremony. The pastor, Karl

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

April 22, 2015

Goshen, Ind., confronts its sundown town past

When Dan Shenk began researching the sundown town history of his city, Goshen, Ind., he was surprised how much information he found.

He read about it in sociologist James Loewen’s book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. The book defines a sundown town as “any organized jurisdiction that for decades kept African Americans or other groups from living in it.”

Goshen is home to a large Anabaptist population and many Mennonite . . .

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

April 20, 2015

With a name and leaders, Evana group moves ahead

Evana Network will be the name of a new Anabaptist group of churches set to launch in September.

Evana announced its name — a combination of “evangelical” and “Anabaptist” — along with a transitional leadership team, a vision and a set of common values, at evananetwork.org on April 13.

Congregations that join Evana can continue to be part of Mennonite Church USA or any other group.

“We do not seek to prevent congregations from having other . . .

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

April 20, 2015
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