Taking cues from seeking peace like Jesus did, Mennonite Church USA convention online seminar presenters encouraged virtual participants to confront seemingly insurmountable systems of structural violence one personal interaction at a time.
Taking cues from seeking peace like Jesus did, Mennonite Church USA convention online seminar presenters encouraged virtual participants to confront seemingly insurmountable systems of structural violence one personal interaction at a time.
For years, Mennonite Church USA convention planners have wanted to offer an online option. The pandemic is pushing the convention across the virtual frontier, with in-person attendance expected to fall far below previous years for the July 6-10 event in Cincinnati.
Mennonite Church USA Executive Board member Jon Carlson has been nominated as the denomination’s moderator-elect, beginning in July.
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — The knitted scarves accumulating at Bethel College Mennonite Church were not abandoned there because of rising temperatures. Instead, they are illustrating them.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Mennonite Church USA Executive Board revised the denomination’s policy for bringing resolutions to the national delegate assembly during a meeting Jan. 17-18.
While it is too soon to know how big a financial hit Mennonite Church USA’s convention took due to lower registration in July, denominational leaders are adjusting to the reality of smaller conventions.
After two years locked up and dormant, the former Hopi Mission School in Kykotsmovi, Ariz., is again serving students. Now known as Peace Academic Center, the facility has a few finishing touches to go before it officially opens Aug. 14.
