Mennonite Church USA, MennoMedia and Mennonite Education Agency’s Hispanic Ministries have been awarded a Schowalter Foundation grant to help churches thrive after COVID-19. The funds will be used to create workshops, curriculum, videos and other resources to equip congregations in a post-pandemic world.
First Mennonite Church in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., is sharing its story about being an inclusive congregation embracing LGBTQ people in a video available online.
The Women in Leadership ministry of Mennonite Church USA has released a Bible-based curriculum that explores the roots of patriarchy — a social structure in which men hold power.
Leaders within Illinois Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA released a statement encouraging forbearance concerning ministerial credentialing at the conference’s March 6 annual assembly, a year after the conference passed a resolution committing to a year of study while neither removing nor conferring credentials to pastors in same-sex marriages.