Swiss Mennonites are raising funds to preserve the castle as a museum honoring the memory of Anabaptists who were imprisoned and tortured there as heretics between the 16th and early 18th centuries.
Longtime partner Al Najd Development Forum distributed locally purchased food to 230 families on behalf of MCC.
Some recipients of MCC’s one-month, $25,000 food distribution have been displaced by the violence.
The questions are part of the Being a Faithful Church process. The project — to help congregations discern God’s will through scriptural interpretation — has been going on since 2009.
Human sexuality, particularly same-sex relationships, is the topic currently being addressed. The following questions, which could be rephrased over the coming months, were approved for congregational discussion:
The occasion was Eastern Mennonite Missions’ annual Global Fair, held at the Hans Herr House and Museum in Willow Street.
Almost 2,000 visitors explored cultures from Germany, Chile and Cambodia, as well as those of local immigrants.
As the willow oak and yellow pine trees in my neighborhood begin to bud, as branches and stems turn from brown to green, the Eastern bluebirds arrive …
Grafting an immigrant congregation onto a deeply rooted Mennonite community in Upland is even harder work.
