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With a new trailer, annual MCC meat canning tour begins

AKRON, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee is operating a brand new mobile cannery as it begins the 2015-16 season of canning meat for people in

Ed Nyce | Mennonite Central Committee

October 12, 2015

Enrollments mostly down; Bethel bounces back

Bethel College in North Newton, Kan., is the brightest spot among U.S. Mennonite college and seminary enrollments, with six of the eight institutions showing declines.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

October 12, 2015

Lancaster Conference nears decision on withdrawal

Lancaster Mennonite Conference’s Bishop Board will meet Oct. 23 to consider an updated proposal to withdraw from Mennonite Church USA, effective on or before Dec. 31, 2017.

The proposal, given as a draft to credentialed leaders at LMC’s Leadership Assembly on Sept. 18, incorporated feedback from “Listening and Vision Casting” meetings held in eight churches across the conference Aug. 15-Sept. 8.

After the Bishop Board finalizes a recommendation, LMC’s 412 active credentialed leaders will vote on it, perhaps by the end of the year.

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

October 5, 2015

Refugees on Greek island inspire European CPT project

Two years ago, Christian Peacemaker Teams saw a need on a small island in the Aegean Sea. In July, that hunch was confirmed when a refugee crisis on the Greek island of Lesbos dramatically escalated.

The 630-square-mile island is home to about 85,000 residents but sits far closer to Turkey than Greece. Lesbos is only four to five miles from the Turkish coast at its closest points.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

October 5, 2015

Europeans confront hard truths of Nazi era

MÜNSTER, Germany — In the city infamous as the site of an attempt to establish an Ana­bap­tist kingdom by force in 1535, more than 100 people participated in a conference on “Mennonites in the Era of National Socialism” Sept. 25-28.

Organized by the Men­no­nit­ischer Geschichts­verein (Ger­man Mennonite . . .

John D. Roth | Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism

October 5, 2015

Hopi school dispute takes a legal turn

An impasse over finances, transparency, authority and land ownership between Hopi Mission School and Mennonite Church USA is moving from conversations to courtrooms.

On Sept. 14, MC USA filed a complaint with Navajo County (Ariz.) Superior Court asking that the school board be . . .

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

September 28, 2015

Kenya church planters are trained to multiply

NAIROBI, Kenya — Multiplication — one of three Eastern Mennonite Missions core values — was at the heart of a training on “simple church” concepts

Andrew Mashas | Eastern Mennonite Missions

September 28, 2015

Flood, robbery bring S.D. churches together

A flood and a robbery brought two Mennonite Breth­ren congregations in Sioux Falls, S.D., closer in late August. An Aug. 27 storm flooded Christ Community

Mennonite World Review staff

September 28, 2015

Deceased Canadian pastor is accused of sexual misconduct

Mennonite Church Eastern Canada announced an allegation of sexual and ethical misconduct by a pastor who died 21 years ago. On Aug. 30, three Ontario

Mennonite World Review staff

September 28, 2015

EMU, Goshen leave Christian college association

Two Mennonite colleges have withdrawn from a Christian college association to avoid causing division over their openness to hiring married gay and lesbian faculty.

The presidents of Goshen (Ind.) College and . . .

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

September 21, 2015

MC USA board discusses resolutions’ implications

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Mennonite Church USA Executive Board on Sept. 17-19 discussed the implications of resolutions passed at the denomination’s convention this summer.

Board members emphasized that two resolutions — “Forbearance in the . . .

Mennonite Church USA

September 21, 2015

Opening a window of hope amid Syrian war

Roseangela Jarjour talks daily with pastors in Syria working for peace and providing a reason for Syrians who stay to hope, even as they hear bombs drop around them.

“The priority is really to bring peace into our country, so we keep our people in our country,” Jarjour said during a Mennonite Central Committee video press conference Sept. 17.

She is a Syrian who works for an MCC . . .

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

September 21, 2015
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