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.
Maitland, the pastor of Bethel Mennonite Church in Mandeville, had just finished delivering an impassioned sermon when he sat down next to his wife, according to Lynn Suter, who attended in her role as director of operations and international ministries of Virginia Mennonite Missions.
“He was fairly immediately in distress. His wife put her arms around him to . . .
To date, they have assisted about 140 families, helping them with food, clothing, legal assistance and travel fare to legal and medical appointments.
Omar Guzman, pastor of the Mennonite . . .
Speaking at Mennonite World Review Inc. annual corporation meeting March 6 at Hesston College, Duane Goossen said politics is fundamentally about how people with different ideas and values live together.
Goossen is senior fellow at the Kansas Center for Economic Growth and a member of Southern Hills Mennonite Church in Topeka.
Max Villatoro, pastor of Iglesia Menonita Torre Fuerte (First Mennonite Church) . . .
The congregation, which takes an affirming stance toward gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, had been a nonvoting member for 10 years.
Working as a custom home builder in 1995, Goossen fell from a balcony, whipping his neck and bruising his spinal cord. His arms and legs were paralyzed. Intensive care and extensive rehabilitation followed.
The student was sexually abused by a teacher, Matthew David Yoder, who pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree sex abuse in March 2014. He was sentenced to 32 months in prison.
LMS superintendent Richard Thomas said the opportunity came as a surprise.
