I’ve been trying to stay away from the political news these days. We don’t watch TV (it’s hooked up to the VCR and DVD players
William (Bill) Janzen, former director of Mennonite Central Committee Canada’s Ottawa Office, is being appointed to the Order of Canada in July in recognition of his contributions to government policy, refugee resettlement, citizenship, development aid and peacebuilding.
Mennonite Central Committee and its partners in Burundi are working together to respond to immense needs after torrential rainfall and a series of floods and landslides displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
A featured quilt at the New Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale in Ontario raised more than $20,000 for Mennonite Central Committee in late May and will make its home at Conrad Grebel University College.
Tina Warkentin Bohn, 95, whose diverse mission assignments spanned four continents and 38 years, died April 11 in Goshen, Ind.
