Until the last several months of his life, missiologist and professor Wilbert R. Shenk, 86, who died July 13, continued to teach.
Until the last several months of his life, missiologist and professor Wilbert R. Shenk, 86, who died July 13, continued to teach.
After almost six years of service, Anna Groff, executive director of the abuse prevention organization Dove’s Nest, submitted her resignation July 26. She will be an assistant professor of communication at Goshen College this fall.
Bienenberg Theological Seminary, the Mennonite Bible school in Switzerland, added its 11th sponsoring organization earlier this year.
Centering the value of unity, commitment to being God’s people together and having a kingdom identity, CMC, previously known as Conservative Mennonite Conference, met Aug. 6-8 in Goshen, Ind., for Multiply, its annual gathering.
Erwin H. Rempel, 76, a mission worker and administrator who served on four continents from 1975 to 2009, died June 25 at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community in Harrisonburg, three months after a cancer diagnosis.
New York, Ukraine, is once again known as New York, Ukraine. The town of Novhorodske was founded in 1889 by Mennonites under the name New York as part of an expansion of the Chortitza Mennonite colony.
