MB Foundation announced in its 2020 annual report that it gave its largest grant amount in a single year last year, totaling $906,118.
Mennonite Church USA, MennoMedia and Mennonite Education Agency’s Hispanic Ministries have been awarded a Schowalter Foundation grant to help churches thrive after COVID-19. The funds will be used to create workshops, curriculum, videos and other resources to equip congregations in a post-pandemic world.
Henderson Mennonite Heritage Museum and Park in Nebraska celebrated the grand opening of an exhibit about pacifists’ stories May 23.
First Mennonite Church in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., is sharing its story about being an inclusive congregation embracing LGBTQ people in a video available online.
The Women in Leadership ministry of Mennonite Church USA has released a Bible-based curriculum that explores the roots of patriarchy — a social structure in which men hold power.
Leaders within Illinois Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA released a statement encouraging forbearance concerning ministerial credentialing at the conference’s March 6 annual assembly, a year after the conference passed a resolution committing to a year of study while neither removing nor conferring credentials to pastors in same-sex marriages.
For years, Mennonite Church USA convention planners have wanted to offer an online option. The pandemic is pushing the convention across the virtual frontier, with in-person attendance expected to fall far below previous years for the July 6-10 event in Cincinnati.