Minnesota woman makes 100 comforters for MCC centennial
Garry and Kate Mayhew were cleaning up after dinner in their Beirut, Lebanon, apartment on Aug. 4 when they felt the ground shake just before they heard the boom, so loud and so powerful it threw them to the floor.
It can pay for a Mennonite Central Committee relief sale to try out an online auction. Prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, many sales around the U.S. and Canada are shifting to virtual events, often with positive results.
In 1920, the Russian Mennonites’ world was in upheaval. Civil war had been raging for three years, creating political and social chaos and leaving the country’s Mennonites impoverished, hungry and fearing for their future. Their brethren in North America responded by founding Mennonite Central Committee, putting aside their sectarianism to come together to feed the hungry and clothe the naked.
Hurricane Hanna brought added misery to a community devastated by COVID-19 on July 25 when it hit South Texas and Mexico. For New Life Christian Center in San Benito, Texas, the damage served as inspiration to keep praying and assisting neighbors.
Nine years of war in Syria have given 14-year-old Kareem Haddad (name changed to protect his security) a lot of reasons to want to study medicine, especially neurology. When Kareem was in second grade, his father, a pharmacist, was killed by shrapnel on the streets of Jaramana.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the 54th annual Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale, scheduled for Oct. 2-3, is determined to go on. Last fall’s sale raised nearly $400,000 for Mennonite Central Committee.
Refugees and other displaced people living in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria already were struggling to subsist before COVID-19 became a health and economic threat.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Mathare settlement isn’t an easy place to stay clean and healthy on an ordinary day, so preventing COVID-19 from infecting people in a crowded slum of Nairobi is a challenge.
