Photo: Jerrell Williams of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Photo provided by Jerrell Williams. Franconia Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA and The Mennonite, Inc., have jointly appointed
MÜNSTER, Germany — An unprecedented time of forgiveness came in May to the site of a notorious and violent Anabaptist uprising.
Sixty years ago, Mennonites from Chihuahua, Mexico, crossed the Belize River and landed at a flat area now called the Mennonite Beach. What the settlers saw in 1958 was a dense rain forest on land they purchased to make into farms. Today, the drive to Mennonite Beach in Spanish Lookout passes fertile fields of beans and corn and cattle in pastureland.
Michael J. Sharp, a Mennonite worker with the United Nations who was killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2017, was awarded the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Medal on June 1 in New York City in recognition of service to the U.N.
