Voice of youth helps life-seasoned couple find new meaning through service
I, a Bethel College-educated woman, speak from a place of many kinds of privilege, including White privilege. I received the blessings of being born to a hard-working Kansas farm family with Christian values. I experienced family as people who take care of each other. My Mennonite community will never stop loving and showing grace […]
Experiencing God in the jungle
Karina, Shannon, and I, along with a group from Goshen were led by the Ross Richer family as they introduced us to their life in Tena and Zábalo. Our trip was an incredible experience in the jungle getting to know the indigenous community, the Cofán, and some of the richest biodiversity in the world. The nearly two-week […]
“God’s mission lost a good friend”
GOSHEN, Indiana (Mennonite Mission Network) – Barbara Eichorn Bergey served God with compassion, professional excellence, and a commitment to prayer, whether she worked at a church camp in Pennsylvania, in an office in Indiana, or on another continent. Eichorn, 70, died May 16. Stanley W. Green, executive director of Mennonite Mission Network, who benefited from […]
Mennonites in Venezuela share faith through food and shampoo
In desperate times, Anabaptist communities find innovative ways to be the church by offering meals, health care, human dignity, and teaching the way of peace. ELKHART, Indiana (Mennonite Mission Network) – In the midst of constant inflation and economic uncertainty, Venezuelan Mennonites minister creatively in and through their churches, sharing food and supporting their communities. […]
Lamb with a lion’s strength: Anabaptist vision informs response to crisis in Venezuela
Erwin Mirabal, president of the Iglesia Evangélica Menonita de Oriente (Evangelical Mennonite Church of the East), reflects on how reading the Bible from an Anabaptist perspective guides the church’s response to an economy that leaves more than half of the population under-nourished. Today in Venezuela, food can’t be purchased. Commerce is paralyzed, and medicine is […]
God’s promise to sustain in South Texas
God’s Promise to Sustain (GPS) as seen from my perspective last week in Coastal Bend at the MDS [Mennonite Disaster Service] work site was a grateful blessing. Grateful to have Ike and Priscilla lead the site as project managers, Helmut and Karin to organize and cook all meals for all diverse nutritional needs, and grateful […]
SENT 2018: Peace churches for the 21st century
SENT conference taps into the Anabaptist historic peace position. ELKHART, Indiana (Mennonite Mission Network) – There’s a movement building in Mennonite Church USA. It’s diverse, multicultural, and energized to take the church to new places. Nearly 100 leaders from across Mennonite Church USA gathered at Living Water Community Church in Chicago for the third annual […]
Making a difference together
Upon driving the last few minutes to reach Bloomington, Texas, nobody really knew what to expect of our calling to help out with Mennonite Disaster Service [MDS]; none of us had been to Bloomington before and weren’t too aware of the damage there. As we entered the town, however, we noticed debris and several abandoned […]
New energy—An interview with Hendy Stevan
Hendy Stevan received an unexpected invitation from his senior pastor—to pack his bags, leave his Indonesian home and bring new energy to a congregation in New York City.
U.K. Anabaptist Theology Forum explores legacy of MMN worker Alan Kreider
BROMSGROVE, England (Mennonite Mission Network and Eastern Mennonite Mission) — Participants at the Anabaptist Theology Forum applauded when former Mennonite Mission Network worker Eleanor Kreider walked into the conference room in Barnes Close near Birmingham, England. Some considered her a spiritual mentor or close friend; others had never met her, but had been influenced in some […]
Annual Colombian camp participation on the rise
ELKHART, Indiana (Mennonite Mission Network) – Surrounded by the lush beauty of the Colombian highlands and with damp ground under their feet, Mennonite youth came, in record numbers, to their annual youth camp. Jan. 5-8, 90 young adults and leaders traveled to Cachipay, the birthplace of Iglesia Menonita de Colombia, IMCOL (Mennonite Church of Colombia), […]
Global disciple and teacher
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) – C. Norman Kraus, who served as a long-term mission worker in Japan, died Apr. 6, 2018, at Sentara RMH Medical Center in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He was 94. Norman and his wife, Ruth, served in Japan for six years through Mennonite Board of Missions, a predecessor agency to Mennonite […]