Mennonites in Virginia’s Rockingham County range from the Old Order buggy-driving community to Eastern Mennonite University’s liberal arts university community, and everything between.
Mennonites in Virginia’s Rockingham County range from the Old Order buggy-driving community to Eastern Mennonite University’s liberal arts university community, and everything between.
Anabaptists around the world celebrated 500 years of Anabaptism around the week of Jan. 19, some marking it during Sunday worship services and others in special gatherings and conferences.
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.
