LANCASTER, Pa. — Middle school students from refugee families are expanding their language skills and cultural understanding, thanks to a program with Eastern Mennonite Missions involvement.
LANCASTER, Pa. — Middle school students from refugee families are expanding their language skills and cultural understanding, thanks to a program with Eastern Mennonite Missions involvement.
SOUTH HUTCHINSON, Kan. — As the North American church declines, people still love Jesus somehow.
But Jesus’ followers? Not so well-loved. “They think we stick with our own,” said Hugh Halter, the keynote speaker at the third annual conference of Anabaptist Renewal Circles, which drew 73 people to Journey Mennonite Church July 28-30. “But Jesus was the most inclusive person the world has ever seen.”
On Aug. 7, Pastor Al Taylor of Infinity Mennonite Church in Harlem, N.Y., headed west, on foot, toward Paterson, N.J. — a 20-mile trek from his starting point in Manhattan but just the first leg of a 34-day prayer walk from New York City to Chicago.
Mennonite Church USA’s Panel on Sexual Abuse Prevention has terminated its participation in the process to select an independent organization to look into institutional responses to allegations of abuse by Luke Hartman, former vice president of enrollment at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va.
Aquifers in the West Bank, Palestine, hold enough water to supply its inhabitants, but distribution is controlled by the Israeli government. Most of the water is directed toward neighboring Israel and the Jewish settlements dotting the West Bank.
