$17 million ransom demanded for Christian Aid Ministries staff, family members
This year has been busy for Canadian novelist Miriam Toews. Her latest novel, Fight Night, was released in August in Canada and October in the United States. A film version of 2014’s All My Puny Sorrows debuted in September at the Toronto International Film Festival.
With less than a year to prepare and gathering limitations still in place, the Mennonite World Conference assembly’s national planning committee is training volunteers virtually.
Families of the 17 Christian Aid Ministries mission workers and children held hostage in Haiti since Oct. 16 thanked Christians around the world for prayers in a statement shared Oct. 21 by CAM during a day of prayer and fasting in support of the hostages’ release.
When an electrical fire in August all but destroyed LaTanya Wade’s house near Philadelphia, she wasn’t sure where to turn. A city agency connected her with Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers.
An outpouring of $13,000 in donations and grants is helping a Mennonite church in Peru rebuild five houses ravaged by a fire Aug. 29.
Girl Named Tom managed to work a homecoming into their schedule amid competing on NBC’s The Voice, performing a sold-out concert Oct. 1 at Goshen College’s Music Center during Homecoming Weekend.
On Oct. 13, a jury in Arizona found U.S. Air Force airman Mark Gooch guilty of kidnapping and first-degree murder in Sasha Krause’s killing. The two didn’t know each other and lived hundreds of miles apart but shared an upbringing in the Mennonite faith. Krause committed to the church, while Gooch did not.
The Mennonite Church USA Archives has created an easy and free method to record births, deaths and marriages through the vital record form on its website.
