Nancy Heisey, president of Mennonite World Conference from 2003 to 2009, will speak about the emergence of inter-Mennonite organizations such as MWC and Mennonite Central Committee Nov. 11 in a public lecture at Shenandoah Mennonite Historians’ annual meeting hosted at Park View Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Va.
Hesston College announced on Nov. 8 the resignation of President Joseph A. Manickam, a shift in focus from two-year to four-year degrees and a reduction of 13 staff positions due to financial challenges.
Mennonite Church USA is helping to fuel growth and diversity with its Thrive Church Planting Grants. This year’s repeat award recipients, Brooklyn Peace Church in New York and Community of Hope Mennonite Church in Bellingham, Wash., are building circles of community in creative, Jesus-centered ways.
The mobile meat cannery of Mennonite Central Committee has begun rolling through the United States so that volunteers can provide protein sources for people living through crises around the world.
Shelley Buller, executive assistant to the Mennonite Church USA Executive Board, has announced plans to retire at the end of 2023 after 46 years of service to the denomination.
Rod Suderman, 63, a former mission worker in Taiwan and China and Mennonite Central Committee regional representative in Northeast Asia, died Sept. 2 of anaplastic thyroid cancer in Surrey, B.C.
