Loren Entz, 78, a mission worker who helped preserve local culture and language while sharing the gospel for 30 years in Burkina Faso, died June 27 in Winnipeg, Man.
Loren Entz, 78, a mission worker who helped preserve local culture and language while sharing the gospel for 30 years in Burkina Faso, died June 27 in Winnipeg, Man.
When Laura Schlabach arrived in Mongolia in 1993, there were only about 1,000 Christians in the sparsely populated country tucked between Russia and China. By 2025 that number had blossomed to an estimated 60,000, about 2% of the population.
Doris Kramer, 102, the first woman to serve on the Mennonite Board of Missions, the mission agency of the Mennonite Church, died May 20 in St. Jacobs, Ont.
“Waging Peace: A Militarism Summit” Nov. 6-7 at Forest Hills Mennonite Church in Leola, Pa., will bring together Christians to explore faithful responses to war, political polarization, nationalism and violence.
The Project for Refugee People in Ecuador ended its work April 30 after decades of supporting refugees fleeing violence in neighboring Colombia.
Nearly 700 people gathered Feb. 16 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Boliviana (Bolivian Mennonite Evangelical Church).
Mennonite Mission Network has appointed Juan Pacheco Lozano of Goshen, Ind., as regional director for Latin America. He succeeds Linda Shelly, who served since 2002.
