Mennonite Central Committee has reached a six-figure legal settlement with a couple who allege their employment as service workers in Burkina Faso was terminated without sufficient cause while they were on sick leave. The couple had raised concerns about workplace abuse.
The Vancouver Island University women’s basketball team refused to play a pair of games against Mennonite-affiliated Columbia Bible College in January because of alleged verbal and physical mistreatment of a transgender teammate by Columbia’s coach and players in October.
As the Mennonite Disaster Service family prays for and reaches out with care to fire survivors in Los Angeles, MDS volunteers are also helping fire survivors in Maui, Hawaii, by building safe housing and bringing a spirit of ohana, or extended family.
A Lancaster County, Pa., judge has ordered Paramount Management Group, a company that runs automatic teller machines, to pay $138 million to investors after missing revenue payments.
Suzette Shreffler was ordained for ministry Sept. 22 at White River Cheyenne Mennonite Church in Busby, Mont., becoming the first Northern Cheyenne woman ordained by Central Plains Mennonite Conference.