Mennonite Church USA is helping to fuel growth and diversity with its Thrive Church Planting Grants. This year’s repeat award recipients, Brooklyn Peace Church in New York and Community of Hope Mennonite Church in Bellingham, Wash., are building circles of community in creative, Jesus-centered ways.
Rod Suderman, 63, a former mission worker in Taiwan and China and Mennonite Central Committee regional representative in Northeast Asia, died Sept. 2 of anaplastic thyroid cancer in Surrey, B.C.
A severe water shortage could not stop the baptism of 120 people in August by Meserete Kristos Church pastors in southern Ethiopia.
Mennonite Brethren Foundation has redirected more than $200,000 remaining in its COVID Church Relief Fund to be used for church planting.
The Mennonite Brethren Convention of Paraguay is celebrating its 50th anniversary by setting a goal to plant 50 new churches.
A memorial service for Earl Roth, who served for nearly four decades with Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo and as an administrator in North America, was held April 24 at Silverwood Mennonite Church in Goshen, Ind.
Mennonite Church USA is accepting applications for its Thrive Church Planting Grant, a $5,000 renewable grant created to nurture ministry needs of new, missional peace churches in the United States.
