During the winter of 2002-03, many of us Mennonite pacifists were concerned about the probable U.S. invasion of Iraq. It was easy to feel powerless and hard to know how to raise one’s voice.
The Mennonite Church USA Executive Board has appointed a Resolutions Committee and published guidelines for developing resolutions for the 2027 Delegate Assembly, to be held July 9 at the First Financial Center in Cincinnati.
Tristan Peters took the scenic route from Winkler, Man., to the South Side of Chicago.
Construction by Mennonite Disaster Service’s Texas unit of a new building for a Mennonite church plant in Lamesa, Texas, has been delayed after deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in late August impacted volunteers in the Old Colony Mennonite community.
Former Christian Aid Ministries worker Jeriah Mast of Millersburg, Ohio, pleaded guilty Sept. 8 in federal court in Cleveland to charges that he sexually abused two boys in Haiti while he oversaw a school program for CAM.
Two unvaccinated Amish infants infected with measles died in August in Lancaster County, Pa., the nation’s first measles-associated deaths this year.