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Foundation’s record year benefits MB church

HILLSBORO, Kan. — MB Foundation earnings set records in 2014, so the U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches’ financial agency is sharing an unprecedented amount with

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

February 2, 2015

Government to pay fees of Conestoga attorneys

The federal government will pay $570,000 in legal fees to attorneys who worked with a Mennonite-owned Pennsylvania cabinet company that challenged a birth control mandate

Mennonite World Review staff

February 2, 2015

Call to serve abroad is a ‘remarkable adventure’

CAPINGA, Mozambique — Rebecca Standen wears a headlamp to light the way and checks a pot of chima bubbling over the fire outside her tiny

Mennonite Central Committee

February 2, 2015

Worship our children?

Whatever [parents] are doing is for the child’s sake, and the child’s alone. Parents no longer raise children for the family’s sake or that of

Sarah Kehrberg

February 2, 2015

Learning from stories that stink

As I took down my string of Christmas cards and letters, I smiled as one friend noted the danger of a Christmas letter becoming “a

Jane Yoder-Short

February 2, 2015

Rural churches face unique challenges

HESSTON, Kan. — Rural congregations are highly attuned to the seasons. While fields lie fallow and winter wheat slumbers, representatives from Midwestern Mennonite Church USA conferences gathered in Kansas for a look at the gifts and challenges unique to such churches.

Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary—Kansas Center hosted a rural ministry course Jan. 20-22 capped by a seminar by S. Roy Kaufman on “The Mission of a Rural Congregation” Jan. 24 . . .

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

February 2, 2015

Alterna Community: Pointing to God’s kingdom

After nearly 30 years of teaching at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., I am seldom blown away by a chapel service. You could say

Don Clymer

February 2, 2015

Christian leaders ask presidential candidates how they’ll fight poverty

WASHINGTON — Mennonite Church USA leaders have joined with a group of Christian leaders looking ahead to what the next president might do to address

Mennonite Church USA | Mennonite World Review

February 2, 2015

Neighbors level home tied to abducted Amish girls

Neighbors have bought, burned and buried the house of a couple facing federal charges after kidnapping a pair of New York Amish girls. The (Syracuse)

Mennonite World Review staff

February 2, 2015

United for a safe community

FRESNO, Calif. — The Goliath they face is huge: gang violence, unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse and more. But, like David, United Faith Christian Fellowship is boldly stepping up to the challenge.

The violence hit home for the small Mennonite Brethren congregation a couple of years ago when a neighborhood house was hit by gunfire in a gang altercation. The home belonged to the parents of a young woman in the church family and shook up the congregation.

Kathy Heinrichs Wiest | For Christian Leader

January 30, 2015