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.
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.
Mass shootings are a reality in the United States. There were 610 mass shootings in 2020, defined as when four or more people have been shot or killed, not including the shooter.
In the silence between the warnings of air raid sirens, the sound of a small choir echoed out of a church sanctuary in western Ukraine. Just the night before, Anna, administrative coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee Ukraine, had hummed a few bars of the song during an evening tea break at the church.
Mennonite Central Committee is celebrating 50 years of thrifting with the anniversary of the first MCC thrift shop opening in 1972.
Lawrence Homer Hart, He’amavehonevėstse (Sky Chief), principal peace chief of the Cheyenne and a Mennonite pastor who worked to bring reconciliation to both peoples, died March 6. He was 89.
