Backyard music festival in North Carolina introduces MCC to diverse communities
Mary K. Oyer, a music professor who influenced many Mennonites’ relationship with the fine arts, died Jan. 11 in Goshen, Ind. The Goshen College professor emerita of music and former professor of church music at what is now Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary was 100.
Patricia J. Shelly, 71, a Bible scholar and denominational leader known to generations of Mennonites as the composer of popular worship songs, died Sept. 4 at her home in Newton, Kan., after a three-year struggle with pancreatic cancer.
Virginia Mennonite Missions has received a $1.2 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to expand the work of The Soil and The Seed Project, a faith formation project based in Harrisonburg, Va.
Kids’ community theater is a place where children grow in faith and friendship through musical theater.
A chance airport encounter allowed Simon Okoth to bring the cultural mixing of Mennonite World Conference to Mennonite congregations in Uganda.
As a massive “heat dome” made a warm summer even hotter in parts of the U.S. and Europe, leaders are already sweating the coming winter.
A half century ago, I drove to the Hollywood Bowl to attend a Peter, Paul and Mary concert.
