Mennonite Church USA will collect donations at its convention in Kansas City for funds to compensate victims of sexual abuse by church leaders and to
Buller Films and the Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., are in the early stages of a project that will explore American Mennonites’ impact on society and society’s impact on Mennonites.
Producer Burton Buller’s goal is to understand the role Mennonites have played in American political, social and economic culture, all through the lens of peace.
“These earthquakes hit in the heart of the area where Binay has been actively engaged in church planting for years,” said a regional representative for Eastern Mennonite Missions, who arrived in Nepal within a week of the April 25 earthquake to deliver initial EMM financial aid.
The document, “Radical Center,” was born out of conversations among Landisville Manor District leaders.
“Our discussions lead us to believe that the current ‘crisis’ within Mennonite Church USA is, in fact, an opportunity,” it states.
It calls Lancaster Conference “to practice unity in diversity in a way . . .
The grant is worth $500,000, or $402,150 in U.S. funds.
In Iraq, MCC will work with a partner, Iraqi al-Amal Association, to change the civics curriculum in schools in Najaf, Baghdad and Erbil governorates.
This choice would lead to his kidnapping.
Makhovskiy, who runs a small business copying keys and fixing shoes, is one of many committed volunteers working with the Mennonite Central Committee . . .
Not quite knowing what would come next, he co-founded the Alterna Community, a bilingual Anabaptist community of U.S. citizens and newcomers from Latin America that incorporates cooperative housing and covenanted Christian fellowship.
“I needed to see the oppressive wall, hear the stories of the people, see the occupation of the land and get a grasp of the injustices of the everyday existence of the Palestinian people,” said Sutter, a member of the Mennonite Church USA Executive Board.
