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Assembly called to wrestle with community, autonomy

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Each person is never alone. They must live in community. Yet each also craves independence and autonomy.

Citing Jacob wrestling with God in Genesis 32, Wieteke van der Molen told Mennonite World Conference assembly attendees July 24 that since the interests of the group will always collide with those of the individual, each person must wrestle with friction and frustration.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

July 25, 2015

Peace workers imagine a global network

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Mennonite peace workers from around the world huddled in a tent July 24 at the Mennonite World Conference assembly to dream of

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

July 24, 2015

Historians address Nazi influence on Mennonites at MWC assembly

HARRISBURG, Pa. — An influential chapter of 20th-century German Mennonite history that has been predominantly either romanticized or glossed over received significant attention in back-to-back

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

July 24, 2015

Ecumenical relations mark MWC meetings

HARRISBURG, Pa. — During both morning and evening worship sessions on July 22 and 23 at the Mennonite World Conference assembly in Harrisburg, representatives from

Gordon Houser | For Meetinghouse

July 24, 2015

A gift of peace from the persecuted

Mennonite World Conference's Global Youth Summit 2015 discussed gifts and calling July 17-19. One participant shared his church’s story of giving gifts of peace in

Elina Ciptadi-Perkins

July 24, 2015

Mukawa calls for reconciliation with God, others

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Nzuzi Mukawa, a Congolese Mennonite Brethren pastor and educator and the MB Mission team leader for Sub-Saharan Africa, challenged his audience to leave Mennonite World Conference assembly on July 23 as men and women who are reconciled with God and with others.

Mukawa’s text was 1 Sam. 25:1-35 . . .

Connie Faber | For Meetinghouse

July 24, 2015

At MWC assembly, MCC cans vegetables for first time

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee’s mobile meat canner went vegan for the Mennonite World Conference assembly, switching for one week from pork, beef and

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

July 23, 2015

Testimony of a church-conflict casualty

HARRISURG, Pa. — Remilyn Mondez of the Philippines warned about the perils of church conflict and then sprung a surprise.

Speaking July 23 at the morning worship service of the Mennonite World Conference assembly, Mondez told the story of a girl named Lenlen. When Lenlen was 2, her parents switched from a liberal Mennonite church to a conservative one. She grew up wearing a cape dress and a head covering.

Paul Schrag | Mennonite World Review

July 23, 2015

Praising in painful times

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Yukari Kaga, a pastor from Hokkaido, Japan, admitted Peter’s praise in his letter to the early church seems “a little strange to

Anna Groff | For Meetinghouse

July 23, 2015

Lord I want to be in that number

Doubtless you have heard the song, "When the Saints Go Marching In." We did a rousing version of it today at Mennonite World Conference assembly,

Lori Guenther Reesor

July 23, 2015