Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers have begun the arduous process of mucking out and cleaning up homes in the town of Central, La., resulting from the worst U.S. disaster since Superstorm Sandy in 2012. There is a need for more volunteers.
Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers have begun the arduous process of mucking out and cleaning up homes in the town of Central, La., resulting from the worst U.S. disaster since Superstorm Sandy in 2012. There is a need for more volunteers.
Huntington Mennonite Church in Newport News, Va., is home to four electric car-charging stations, thanks to a member with a passion for creation care who wants to see other congregations take on similar projects. Russell DeYoung is a senior research scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, where he studies the effects of climate change on the Virginia coast.
When he was 15, Juan Marrero, now an Anabaptist pastor in Philadelphia, used a pair of boxing gloves to settle a dispute with a young man who attacked his aunt and broke her ribs. Hand-to-hand fighting isn’t how many Anabaptists interpret what it means to turn the other cheek. And yet, choosing to box — rather than wield guns or knives — created peace in Fairhill, one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods.
CORVALLIS, Ore. — Joining other Christian denominations that support the antiracism goals of the Black Lives Matter movement, Mennonite Mission Network will give $10,000 to partner with The Voices Project to offer nonviolent action training and organizing strategies.
GOSHEN, Indiana — James E. Brenneman announced on Aug. 17 that he will step down from his role as the 16th president of Goshen College at the end of the 2016-17 academic year, concluding 11 and a half years of service to the college.
DENVER — The U.S. Mennonite Brethren national convention July 29‐30 was all about moving forward toward an unknown future.
An effort to mobilize potential Amish voters in Pennsylvania and Ohio to support Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is continuing in spite of a decision by one nationally read newspaper to drop a political action committee’s advertising.
When Suzette Shreffler caught a man stealing from her thrift store, she did not call the police. She confronted him, explained to him why stealing was wrong and had him volunteer for an hour to make restitution.
LANCASTER, Pa. — Middle school students from refugee families are expanding their language skills and cultural understanding, thanks to a program with Eastern Mennonite Missions involvement.
Holy Spirit fire dances in Bercy Mundedi’s eyes. It sets aflame the ministries to which she has been called — the most recent being to lead the Kalonda Bible Institute in Democratic Republic of Congo.
SOUTH HUTCHINSON, Kan. — As the North American church declines, people still love Jesus somehow.
But Jesus’ followers? Not so well-loved. “They think we stick with our own,” said Hugh Halter, the keynote speaker at the third annual conference of Anabaptist Renewal Circles, which drew 73 people to Journey Mennonite Church July 28-30. “But Jesus was the most inclusive person the world has ever seen.”
Mennonite Church USA’s Panel on Sexual Abuse Prevention has terminated its participation in the process to select an independent organization to look into institutional responses to allegations of abuse by Luke Hartman, former vice president of enrollment at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va.
