The official beginning date for Mennonite Church USA was Feb. 1, 2002, the day the new fiscal year began for most agencies. But most of us think of the denomination’s “birthday” as that moment in the summer of 2001 when delegates at the Nashville, Tenn., assembly voted to form our national church and Mennonite Church Canada …
In early August 1948, a remarkable event in the history of Anabaptist-Mennonite churches occurred. For seven days—first at Goshen, Ind., and then at North Newton, Kan.—Mennonites from countries that had fought each other in World War II met face-to-face to discuss their shared future …
Since I officially retired from my bishop oversight duties and college teaching a few years back, I have had the strange pleasure and puzzlement of hearing a variety of responses to that news …
Fifty years of continuous pastoral ministry at one Mennonite congregation must set a modern pastor longevity record. But length of faithful service is only one of the unique characteristics of Arthur Roth, pastor of Julesburg (Colo.) Mennonite Church, a member of the Central Plains Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA …
