Canadian Mennonite Brethren leaders needed to clear up confusion about whether their denomination was involved in a same-sex wedding. Responding to numerous inquiries, the leaders,
John Rempel of Toronto and Lauren Friesen of Chicago are working to produce a reprint of Forever Summer, Forever Sunday, featuring 93 photographs by Rempel’s grandfather, Peter Gerhard Rempel.
Conversations between Mountain View Community Church Pastor Fred Leonard and MB Mission Europe director Johann . . .
That was the question for the Mennonite Church USA Constituency Leaders Council as its members weighed three proposed resolutions on sexuality and church polity.
They chose the call for unity and tolerance.
“I can’t imagine a better first case,” said Josh Bacon, the facilitator who led the meeting between the two men.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, more than 1.8 million people were left in need of basic shelter, health and food assistance.
Co-pastor of Iglesia Menonita Torre Fuerte (First Mennonite Church) in Iowa City with his wife, Gloria, Villatoro was detained March 3. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reported the family’s attorney was informed by ICE March 20 when Villatoro’s plane landed.
These are listed as “action steps” after an affirmation of the Confession of Faith that emphasizes support for Article 19, which states marriage is between a man and a woman for life.
The resolution had 70 percent support — 163 . . .
Fundamentalism has taught conservative Mennonites to be spiritual abusers and to feel good about it,” Weaver, a Beachy Amish minister, told an assembly of theologically and culturally conservative Amish, Mennonites and Hutterites meeting near Nappanee March 12-14.
