Martin Wiens, high school principal at Dock Mennonite Academy in Lansdale, Pa., was placed on administrative leave March 24 after a former student posted a video on social media March 21 alleging Wiens repeatedly engaged in physical contact that made him uncomfortable.
A driver lost control of his truck and ran into West Swamp Mennonite Church on March 9 near Quakertown, Pa. No one was in the church at the time. The driver suffered minor injuries.
Mennonite Church USA Executive Board member Jon Carlson has been nominated as the denomination’s moderator-elect, beginning in July.
Mennonite Church USA has awarded grants to 10 congregations supporting social justice work. The grants of $1,000 to $2,500 are the first from the denomination’s Justice Fund, established in June to support conferences and congregations working to combat poverty, dismantle racism, seek immigration justice or address police brutality/reimagine policing.
Lancaster Mennonite is selling two of its Pennsylvania school campuses to unify its pre-kindergarten through grade 12 education system at one location.
Members of Ambler Mennonite Church in Ambler, Pa., are surprising loved ones with “green” Valentine’s Day care packages.