Fresno (Calif.) Pacific University set an enrollment record this fall by adding more than 250 students. Four other U.S. Mennonite colleges, universities and seminaries
Mamo Dula of Lancaster, Pa., who grew up in Ethiopia and recently visited, says MKC congregations are “vibrant and energetic, embracing an amazing range of ethnic groups.”
The decreto supremo — which has been written but not numbered or signed — could also take away land purchased in the last 15 to 20 years.
To one of the worshipers, the disconnect between words and actions symbolized a problem.
“We say things that we don’t do,” said Cherith Fee-Nordling, a professor of theology at Northern Seminary . . .
The voting options, to stay or to withdraw, are being submitted by the conference’s Executive Committee. Leaving MC USA would be a constitutional change and require a two-thirds majority.
No conference has withdrawn from MC USA in the denomination’s 12-year history.
