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Mennonite Church USA to explore new structure

Seeking to hold the denomination together amid controversies over homosexuality, Mennonite Church USA will explore possibilities for a new structure.

At its Sept. 26-27 meeting in Kansas City, Mo., the MC USA Executive Board appointed a committee to look at new ways for area conferences to relate to each other.

The goal is to bring a proposal to delegates at next summer’s convention in Kansas City.

Paul Schrag | Mennonite World Review

September 30, 2014

Churches repudiate ‘Doctrine of Discovery’

SAN FRANCISCO — Church leaders from across the U.S. and Canada strategized about engaging the Mennonite church in the ecumenical effort to dismantle the “Doctrine

First Mennonite Church of San Francisco

September 29, 2014

Church planters make friends, follow the Spirit

WICHITA, Kan. — Because Byron and Hilda Pellecer “followed the bubbles” of the Holy Spirit, Imelda Samaniego worships on her front lawn.

On Tuesday evenings she joins a small group of adults and children in an outdoor Bible study the Pellecers lead.

Her neighbors, Juanita and Pascual, invited her. The couple . . .

Laurie Oswald Robinson | For Mennonite World Review

September 29, 2014

A surprising future?

The shape of God’s church of the future may surprise us. Can we agree that decision-making from only a few, top-down, is not satisfactory? Nor

Rachel Stella

September 29, 2014

It’s not like divorce

Some say the church used to be against divorce, but today we accept it. Wrong. Article 19 of the Mennonite Church USA Confession of Faith

Rachel Stella

September 29, 2014

Beating the heat, youth connect with N.Y. congregation

NEW YORK — On hot summer afternoons, Tiara Downer’s Summer Jam Cool Outs at King of Glory Tabernacle, a Mennonite Church USA congregation in the

Rachel Sommer | Mennonite Central Committee

September 29, 2014

Large Ohio church leaves MC USA

Hartville Mennonite Church, one of the largest congregations in Mennonite Church USA’s Ohio Conference, voted Sept. 7 to leave the denomination. The motion passed with

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

September 22, 2014

First woman ordained as a pastor dies at 87

Emma Sommers Richards, the first woman ordained as a pastor in a U.S. Mennonite congregation, died Sept. 6 in Goshen, Ind. She was 87.

Richards was ordained in 1973 by Illinois Mennonite Conference while serving as co-pastor of Lombard (Ill.) Mennonite Church with her husband, Joe.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

September 22, 2014

Interchurch confessing

What do Mennonites say when Lutherans ask whether we see them as fully part of the body of Christ? The question was posed during informal

Andre Gingerich Stoner

September 15, 2014

Reconciliation the Asian way

The ReconciliAsian peace center brings peace and reconciliation training to the Korean-American community in Los Angeles.

Co-directors Hyun Hur and Sue Park-Hur, who launched the center in January 2013, believe the tools of peace and conflict transformation are gifts the Mennonite church can offer. he Hurs attend Mountain View Mennonite Church in . . .

Sara Alvarez Waugh, Mennonite Mission Network | Mennonite Church USA

September 15, 2014