As Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers build homes in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, they also learn about who they’re helping. At least half the residents in the colonias are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the country, and many are applying for asylum.
A new initiative in northern Indiana offers shelter from the stress and complexity of immigration law. La Posada (shelter or inn) is opening to the public in May out of an office in Sunnyside Mennonite Church in Elkhart.
Mennonite Church USA has announced the worship speakers — led by Samuel Sarpiya, an Anabaptist pastor from Ontario — for its special session of the delegate assembly May 27-30 in Kansas City, Mo.