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MB youth challenged to consider their identity

DENVER — Every four years, high school students from Mennonite Brethren churches across the country get together for the largest gathering of Mennonite Brethren in the United States.

This year, 780 students and youth . . .

Christian Leader

May 11, 2015

MWR wins seven awards from press association

TORONTO — Mennonite World Review won seven awards, its second most ever, at the annual convention of Associated Church Press on May 1. For the

Rachel Stella

May 8, 2015

Charges dropped in immigration detention protest

LUMPKIN, Ga. — A judge in Georgia on April 9 dropped charges against a group of immigrant-rights activists, including the leader of an Anabaptist community.

Steve Pavey | Mennonite Church USA

May 7, 2015

Radio broadcast celebrates Mennonites at Goshen

GOSHEN, Ind. — For those in the audience, the May 2 live performance of A Prairie Home Companion at Goshen College was a show they’ll never forget. But for the 27 students in the college’s Chamber Choir, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Brian Yoder Schlabach | Mennonite World Review

May 5, 2015

Board’s resolution ‘tests’ Membership Guidelines

Announcing a new resolution for delegates May 4, the Mennonite Church USA Executive Board says it is “testing the status” of the denomination’s Membership Guidelines.

The resolution asks delegates at the June 30-July 5 convention in Kansas City to reaffirm the Guidelines and the . . .

Mennonite Church USA | Mennonite World Review staff

May 4, 2015

Small Canadian conference puts ‘Christian’ first

The Chortitzer Mennonite Conference, with 10 congregations in western Canada, has chosen a simpler name. At their annual meeting in Steinbach, Man., on April 18,

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

May 4, 2015

EMU president announces retirement

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Eastern Mennonite University President Loren E. Swartzendruber announced April 30 that he plans to retire June 30, 2016.

The date will mark 13 years of leadership as the university’s eighth president and 33 years in Mennonite higher education, including 10 years as president of Hesston (Kan.) College.

Eastern Mennonite University | Mennonite Education Agency

May 4, 2015

MCC responds with food, shelter, supplies in Nepal

Mennonite Central Committee will begin its Nepal earthquake response by working with a local organization in the remote, eastern area of the country, providing food and other essential items to affected families.

Support for about 200 families in Okhaldhunga District will assist people whose homes are no longer safe for use and who have less than one week of food available. Priority will be given to female-led households, and households . . .

Julie Bell | Mennonite Central Committee

April 30, 2015

MWC visa problems fewer than feared

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

Mennonite World Conference

April 27, 2015

It’s time for a new hymnal

The time is near for the next generation’s hymnal. Scheduled for release in 2020, it will be more than a printed book.

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.

MennoMedia

April 27, 2015

East Africans strengthen training for rural pastors

MWANZA, Tanzania — Mennonite bishops in Tanzania and Kenya are striving to meet the need for local, affordable training for village pastors.

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 . . .

Chris Fretz, Amanda Miller | Eastern Mennonite Missions

April 27, 2015

Year after girls’ abduction, Nigerians’ hearts still ache

The Church of the Brethren in Nigeria continues to mourn the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls — and members’ loss of life and property — a year after the kidnapping.

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 . . .

Mennonite World Review staff

April 27, 2015
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