The steering committee for Mennonite Church USA’s Women in Leadership Project is ready to plan a conference, create undoing-sexism training and find ways for men to assist
“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.
Individuals can also join by signing the . . .
Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va. . . .
Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) has been facing the assault of violent extremist Islamist group Boko Haram for years.
On July 13, EYN President Samuel Dali described the depth of the crisis . . .
