People who need visas to attend the Mennonite World Conference assembly in Harrisburg, Pa., July 21-26 have encountered fewer problems than expected. For more than
Representatives from MennoMedia, Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church USA laid the foundation for a new song collection at an April meeting in Minneapolis.
The collection will include an electronic version as well as other supporting products.
The new volume will replace the 1992 Hymnal: A Worship Book, which succeeded the 1969 Mennonite Hymnal.
They are working with Eastern Mennonite Missions workers Joe and Gloria Bontrager, who are implementing a curriculum and model for training leaders.
The Bontragers begin by traveling to . . .
On April 14, 2014, the Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram took 276 girls from their secondary boarding school, built by Brethren mission workers in the 1940s . . .
He read about it in sociologist James Loewen’s book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. The book defines a sundown town as “any organized jurisdiction that for decades kept African Americans or other groups from living in it.”
Goshen is home to a large Anabaptist population and many Mennonite . . .
Evana announced its name — a combination of “evangelical” and “Anabaptist” — along with a transitional leadership team, a vision and a set of common values, at evananetwork.org on April 13.
Congregations that join Evana can continue to be part of Mennonite Church USA or any other group.
“We do not seek to prevent congregations from having other . . .
Meeting April 6-8 in Kansas City, Mo., the board approved the resolution — along with three others and one that’s still being worked on — for delegates’ consideration.
“We think it has the potential to help us live together with our disagreements,” said Ervin Stutzman, MC USA executive director, in a telephone interview after the meeting.
In 2014, College Mennonite Church in Goshen, Ind., spearheaded the rebuild of Dalton’s house, which now also . . .
