Mennonite Central Committee is appealing for more funds to help meet basic human needs of Syrians who want to stay near their homes as large
Over the two years he served with MCC, he was a translator and an adviser for many Vietnamese people.
“I got attached to this place,” he said.
Qasim and his parents and three brothers, along with their wives and children, were able to get away from Sinjar, to a . . .
The attendees were volunteer cattlemen in the late 1940s — at the time fresh from high school or in college and looking for adventure. Today, the 14 men who . . .
The two-year project — a joint initiative of Mennonite World Conference and the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism at Goshen (Ind.) College — profiled the demographics, beliefs and practices of 24 church conferences . . .
“She was only 4 years old then,” said Ancar, who lives now in a home repaired by Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers.
One of those volunteers was the girl’s father. When he returned home after . . .
“It was indescribable,” said the husky man with regal bearing. “It still brings out emotion.”
Before one of the largest Iowa crowds drawn by any candidate this year, Republican Ted Cruz featured the story of Betty Görtz-Odgaard and Richard Odgaard at an Aug. 21 rally of 2,300 Christian conservatives focused on exercising . . .
The summit highlighted ways the 25-year-old organization has grown and is shifting beyond fellowship to providing guidance and accountability to its member conferences.
“But when it came to integrating those who had no church background, it was a complete culture clash,” McDade said.
The unchurched people didn’t know the songs. They didn’t like to sit through 30-minute sermons.
