A Ten Thousand Villages volunteer is now chief executive officer of the fair-trade retailer. The nonprofit company’s board of directors announced on April 14 that Dan Alonso of Mechanicsburg, Pa., began as CEO on May 1.
A Ten Thousand Villages volunteer is now chief executive officer of the fair-trade retailer. The nonprofit company’s board of directors announced on April 14 that Dan Alonso of Mechanicsburg, Pa., began as CEO on May 1.
Mennonites Against Militarism — a collaboration of Mennonite Central Committee U.S. and Mennonite Church USA — is planning an initiative to counter military recruitment of U.S. youth.
Two anonymous donors have given more than $100,000 to MennoMedia to support the Believers Church Bible Commentary series.
Natacha Kyendrebeogo of Burkina Faso is looking forward to seeing “one family with a lot of members, worshipping the same Father.”
MennoMedia and Kindred Productions have reached an agreement for MennoMedia to assume full ownership of the quarterly devotional magazine Rejoice!.
War-Tax resisters from the Harrisonburg, Va., area gathered April 16 to publicly donate $2,370 to organizations working for peace and to meet human needs.
The University of Hamburg department of peace church theology hosted “Creating Peace Without Weapons? There Is No Way to Peace Along the Way of Security” April 29 in Hamburg, Germany.
A Mennonite Brethren congregation in Bakersfield, Calif., has reached a settlement in a lawsuit with a female member who alleged a former pastor abused his position as a marriage counselor to make sexual advances.
As Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers build homes in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, they also learn about who they’re helping. At least half the residents in the colonias are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the country, and many are applying for asylum.
