Meat canned by Mennonite Central Committee has traveled around the world, and now it’s hailing a taxi in New York City.
Meat canned by Mennonite Central Committee has traveled around the world, and now it’s hailing a taxi in New York City.
The Mennonite Disaster Service unit in Lancaster, Pa., is coordinating volunteers making coronavirus protection masks at a rate of 21,000 every three days. By April 13 they had made 55,000.
At least seven residents at Mennonite Home Communities in Lancaster, Pa., who tested positive for COVID-19 had died as of April 14. Twelve staff members had also tested positive and were self-isolating since they developed symptoms.
The people who came on Sunday, March 22, to Mellinger Mennonite Church in Lancaster, Pa., never got out of their cars. Pastors Roger Weaver and Dan Cloyd offered drive-through prayer in the carport throughout the morning for anyone interested.
Mennonite churches and other organizations are finding new ways to operate or canceling activities to stem the spread of coronavirus.
Jeanette Harder had not even received a printed copy of her new book when she learned 740 fresh-off-the-press copies had been handed out at a conference.
With the whir of sewing machines, the snip of scissors and the hum of conversation as music to work by, volunteers across two continents completed 9,504 comforters as part of Mennonite Central Committee’s Great Winter Warm-up in January.
