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New York churches assist new immigrants

NEW YORK — Mennonite Garifuna churches of New York City have been assisting numerous Garifuna immigrants who have arrived since June.

To date, they have assisted about 140 families, helping them with food, clothing, legal assistance and travel fare to legal and medical appointments.

Omar Guzman, pastor of the Mennonite . . .

Chris Fretz | Eastern Mennonite Missions

March 16, 2015

Network spreads ‘healthy infection’ in Venezuela

An ecumenical group of church leaders in Venezuela — led by a Mennonite, Erwin Mirabal — describes its educational mission with a metaphor of the gospel of Jesus as a healthy infection.

They say they are “infecting the churches of Venezuela with a sana doctrina (healthy doctrine).”

Holly Blosser Yoder, Central Plains Mennonite Conference | Mennonite Mission Network

March 16, 2015

Iowa pastor detained, faces deportation to Honduras

Mennonite Church USA officials are requesting support for the Honduran pastor of a Mennonite church in Iowa City facing deportation after being arrested by immigration agents March 3.

Max Villatoro, pastor of Iglesia Menonita Torre Fuerte (First Mennonite Church) . . .

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

March 11, 2015

Translation project completes Scripture for Qom

In Fortín Lavalle, Argentina, 200 people celebrated the arrival of the first complete Bibles in the Qom language Dec. 13.

Qom is the original name of the Chaco’s Toba indigenous people — a name they are reclaiming.

Sara Alvarez Waugh | Mennonite Mission Network

March 2, 2015

Supporting the undocumented, hospitality flows two ways

One day can change a life. A one-day learning trip to the U.S.-Mexico border in 2013 made a big impact on the lives of youth

Ardell Stauffer | Mennonite Church USA

March 2, 2015

Canned meat provides drought relief

Central America faced its worst drought in 40 years last summer when an El Niño weather pattern hit. The dry spell affected the first growing season between May and August, causing widespread crop loss.

To help farmers make it through to the second growing season, Mennonite Central Committee provided emergency food assistance to 1,666 families. That included a distribution of 30,384 cans of meat in El Salvador, Honduras . . .

Emily Loewen | Mennonite Central Committee

February 23, 2015

Locking up mothers and children

“I cannot watch the boy die,” said Hagar as she left her son, Ishmael, under a bush (Gen. 21:16). They had been exiled and were

Tammy Alexander

February 16, 2015

Finding hope at the border

There are never enough winter jackets in the stacks of sorted clothes in the salon de fiestas (fellowship hall) at Sacred Heart Church in McAllen,

Stephen Kriss

January 19, 2015

Planting opportunity, rebuilding lives

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Breezes flutter the sheer fabric hanging in the doorway of Gladys Joseph’s new home in Cabaret, 24 miles outside Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. There’s room in the yard for her children to play. And, for the first time since she was sent to Haiti’s capital city as a child, she’s able to have a garden — corn, beans, manioc and okra.

Five years after a devastating earthquake tore across Port-au-Prince . . .

Marla Pierson Lester | Mennonite Central Committee

January 12, 2015

Opinion: For children of God on the edge, a space to celebrate

QUITO, Ecuador — In my work with refugees, I’ve realized that sometimes simply creating spaces for people is a powerful way to change the human

David Shenk

January 5, 2015