For more than 50 years, the Paris Mennonite Center has served as an Anabaptist witness to French communities and scholars from around the world. A couple from Kansas will take the lead in discovering its next chapter.
Virginia Mennonite Conference reaffirmed its membership in Mennonite Church USA while also extending space for three more years for VMC congregations to choose not to be considered part of the denomination at its July 18-20 summer delegate assembly at Harrisonburg Mennonite Church.
William (Bill) Janzen, former director of Mennonite Central Committee Canada’s Ottawa Office, is being appointed to the Order of Canada in July in recognition of his contributions to government policy, refugee resettlement, citizenship, development aid and peacebuilding.
Tanzanian Mennonites’ gift to Anabaptists around the world is their ability to retain youth in the church, said Leah Makoyo, a former Tanzanian church leader, during a visit to Pennsylvania.