Learning of immigrants’ experiences inspires young adults’ interest in future service
Anastacio Basil Marin, a “grandfather” of the Evangelical Garifuna Anabaptist congregations in Central America and the United States, died June 26 at Sentara RMH Medical Center in Harrisonburg, Va. He was 62.
Mennonite Voluntary Service is closing its Washington, D.C., unit, ending Mennonite Mission Network’s volunteer presence in the nation’s capital. The unit house will be put up for sale in August.
Mennonite Mission network welcomed six new directors to its leadership team during the past year.
Most of the Mennonite Voluntary Service unit houses were quiet March 3-6, with locked doors and darkened windows. The San Francisco unit apartment, however, was fuller, louder and livelier than the pandemic had enabled it to be in years.
While Anabaptist theological education is offered around the world, it is largely absent from French-language theological programs. Le Centre de Formation à la Justice et à la Paix (CFJP, Justice and Peace Training Center) is changing that.
At the end of the first evening of “From Chaos to Shalom: Exploring Peace Theology Together,” emcees Andios Santoso and Joe Sawatzky struggled to wrap up the Zoom session. The concluding prayer had been spoken. But none of the nearly 100 attendees wanted to sign off quite yet.
