Here are five things worth paying attention to this month. I recommend selecting one or two and jumping in over the next week. 1. Speaking
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.
Mennonite Brethren congregations in Ukraine have organized an aid distribution network as the Russian invasion causes mounting humanitarian crises.
The Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale set what is believed to be a record for the highest price paid for a single item during the April 8-9 fundraiser for Mennonite Central Committee at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson.
