Walking along the bank of the Limmat River, Thioro Bananzoro pondered the challenges Anabaptists have turned into opportunities over the last five centuries.
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MWC General Council votes U.S. pastor as president-elect
by MeetinghouseIt took three impromptu songs to count the ballots and confirm the results, but Anabaptist leaders from around the world elected J. Nelson Kraybill president-elect of Mennonite World Conference at …
Jenny Spenst is fascinated by her parents’ stories of life in the Soviet Union.
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Housing repairs and latrine projects in Haiti help build dignified lives
by MeetinghouseIn a matter of seconds, the January 2010 earthquake turned Elumene Charles’ modest, concrete home to rubble. She lost everything.
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MCC partner offers education, business opportunities to revitalize Haiti
by MeetinghouseBefore the magnitude-7 earthquake struck Haiti almost two years ago, Ronald Sadou Zami struggled to find work. Like many Haitians, he had discovered multiple ways to earn minimal income – …
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Haitians find trauma healing integral to post-earthquake restoration
by MeetinghouseWith dignified humility, Edouarnus Estivil calls himself a direct victim of the January 2010 earthquake: it destroyed his Port-au-Prince home, paralyzed his sister, and killed his mother, the head of …
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From “second conversion” to the helm of Mennonite World Conference
by MeetinghouseGeneral Secretary-Elect César García reflects on his journey and vision César García, an MB pastor and conference leader from Bogotá, Colombia, was recently appointed general secretary-elect of Mennonite World Conference. …
“MCC is an arm of the church; it is not a parachurch organization,” said binational chair Herman Bontrager at Mennonite Central Committee’s binational annual general meeting, June 10–11. The executive …
“I never thought I would be a landowner,” Horacio Cardenes, a 36-year-old father of four explained through an interpreter on “the happiest day of [his] life.” Through the project sponsorship …
To mark Mennonite Central Committee’s 90th anniversary, some 130 people gathered June 13–14 at a “Table of Sharing” conference. Presenters showed how MCC has shaped Mennonite identity as it fostered …
Maurice Phillips, a commercial fisher of Plaquemines Parish, La., took a group of disaster management leaders out on a small boat to “see the oil” on June 7. This is …
Martyrs Mirror is newer than the Bible and longer than some copies of it.
How much of your worship service is spent reading and hearing Scripture? Ten percent? Fifteen? More? Less? In 2004, Constance Cherry, who teaches worship and Christian ministries at Indiana Wesleyan …
“Are you a Mennonite?” a policeman asked as Ditrich Pana approached the huge white church where 5,800 Anabaptists from around the world had gathered.
Experiencing the variety of Paraguay’s Mennonites proved instructive for visitors and valuable for Paraguayans too.