Save for the future, but don’t forget the beauty of now
A fellow Bethel College alum once told me he “would rather have 50 2% solutions than two 50% solutions.” I think there’s wisdom in this idea — wisdom we can apply to economic and racial justice.
Edmund Janzen, 88, president of Fresno Pacific University from 1975 to 1985 during a teaching career that included a stint at Tabor College and other church leadership roles, died April 14 at his home in Fresno, Calif.
From 1962 to 1991, Mennonite-related organizations operated residential schools for Indigenous people in northwestern Ontario. On March 6-8, 30 survivors from those schools gathered in Dryden, Ont., to tell their stories and begin their healing journeys.
David Chow, a Mennonite Brethren pastor from Calgary, Alberta, has been appointed Mennonite World Conference regional representative for North America.
As Sandra Shenk volunteered at the Mennonite Relief Center in Hinton, Va., during its annual chicken canning project in late February, she recalled the verses that were part of her Sunday school class earlier that week.
