Maria Cortes won the grand prize for her essay on the U.S. immigration experience in the annual Mennonite Central Committee U.S. National Peace & Justice Ministries high school essay contest.
Mennonite Central Committee has established the Michael J. Sharp Global Peacemaker Award to recognize and encourage courageous peacebuilders across the world.
Bruce Enns has been appointed general director of Multiply, the mission agency of U.S. and Canadian Mennonite Brethren churches, effective May 16.
Mennonite Mission network welcomed six new directors to its leadership team during the past year.
Four years into their partnership, the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition and Indigenous partner organization Ka’ Kuxtal Much Meyaj sent a joint delegation to the United Nations in April.
Most of the Mennonite Voluntary Service unit houses were quiet March 3-6, with locked doors and darkened windows. The San Francisco unit apartment, however, was fuller, louder and livelier than the pandemic had enabled it to be in years.
In the 1950s and ’60s, a group of American Anabaptist graduate students got to talking about the place of Mennonites in the modern world. One product of this conversation was an influential series of pamphlets.