What began as a simple gesture in the 1970s has grown into a cross-country friendship spanning decades, generations and nearly 3,000 miles.
What began as a simple gesture in the 1970s has grown into a cross-country friendship spanning decades, generations and nearly 3,000 miles.
Six people were killed Aug. 12 in Michigan when a truck went through a stop sign and hit a van carrying members of an Amish community to a funeral.
Comparisons between early Anabaptism and global Anabaptist (and even non-Anabaptist) expressions of faith abounded at a conference hosted by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies in Elizabethtown, Pa., July 22-24.
Zion Mennonite Church in Hubbard, Ore., was back to holding worship services in its sanctuary Aug. 10 after a person broke into the church the evening of Aug. 2 and started a fire inside.
About 300 Plain Mennonite youth and young adults gathered June 29 at Lime Rock Meetinghouse in Lancaster County, Pa., to hear teachings on Christian nonresistance.
Mennonite Collegiate Institute, a high school in Gretna, Man., has permanently shut down. The decision to close the 136-year-old residential school was made July 7 at a meeting of delegates from its 11 supporting congregations.
Bluffton University’s Board of Trustees has named the 11th president in Bluffton’s 125-year history. J. Alexander Sider has accepted the call to serve as Bluffton’s next president, effective Aug. 1.
Lacey Scully of Wichita, Kan., is the new editor of Christian Leader, the magazine of the U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. She succeeds Connie Faber, who retired in May after 31 years on the USMB denominational magazine staff, including 21 years as editor.
