Marisa Smucker, director of Mennonite Mission Network’s Mennonite Voluntary Service, has been named senior executive for MMN’s new ventures division.
Until the last several months of his life, missiologist and professor Wilbert R. Shenk, 86, who died July 13, continued to teach.
Erwin H. Rempel, 76, a mission worker and administrator who served on four continents from 1975 to 2009, died June 25 at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community in Harrisonburg, three months after a cancer diagnosis.
A memorial service for Earl Roth, who served for nearly four decades with Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo and as an administrator in North America, was held April 24 at Silverwood Mennonite Church in Goshen, Ind.
Mennonites in Colombia asked international siblings in faith for prayers in early May after a wave of protests and violence broke out across the country.
On a Sunday in November after worship, Alice Tou, a member of one of our Mennonite churches in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, asked to have a word with me. I could see she was worried. Large groups of Muslim neighbors kept arriving at her house, asking her to arrange a meeting with her pastor. They wouldn’t say why they wanted to see me.