Instead, delegates at this summer’s convention will turn their attention to polity, or church governance, as they deal with issues of sexuality and authority.
At the consultation, held Jan. 8-10 in Kingston, participants shared their understandings and practices of baptism and explored how their thinking . . .
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary—Kansas Center hosted a rural ministry course Jan. 20-22 capped by a seminar by S. Roy Kaufman on “The Mission of a Rural Congregation” Jan. 24 . . .
The violence hit home for the small Mennonite Brethren congregation a couple of years ago when a neighborhood house was hit by gunfire in a gang altercation. The home belonged to the parents of a young woman in the church family and shook up the congregation.
A few minutes after leaving his home with another pastor, Huynh Thuc Khai, each on his own motorcycle, they were accosted by two men who knocked Khai from his motorcycle.
Quang, who was following, stopped to assist the younger pastor. The two assailants signaled five other men, who assaulted Quang with clubs and bricks.
