Friday, November 20, 2009
A close friend of the Anabaptist family is counseling Mennonites to take a deep breath: It’s time to bring out the “right stuff,” Jim Wallis told the crowd of 500 attending the final adult worship service.
“I want to pull out your best stuff,” said Wallis, president and chief executive of... 
Tonight was not the first time youth worship turned into a dance party, but Greg Boyd was still surprised when he looked out over the energetic crowd at Saturday evening’s worship service, the finale of convention week.
“I’ve been in a couple of Mennonite church services, and none of them look like tonight,” Boyd told the near-capacity crowd, as yo... 
Laura Bowman marches to the beat of a different drummer. The beat she hears is peace.
Following Saturday night’s youth worship, James Roynon, facilitator for the Peace and Justice Support Network, awarded Bowman, of Archbold, Ohio, the first Different Drummer Youth Peace Award for Mennonite youth.
“This was an effort to recognize young people who are working for peace... 
With colorful bags of snacks and thank you cards, about 180 children went to five hotels to recognize the hard work of the hotel staffs during the convention, and give something back to them.
“This is our way of saying thank you to a group of people that oftentimes aren’t thanked and to tell them they are special,” said Carol Grieser, the conventionR... 
A detectable level of tension accompanied Mennonite Church USA delegates into their meeting on Saturday afternoon as they gathered for a final session to discuss a proposed statement about the church’s perspectives on human sexuality.
The resolutions committee drafted the document, titled “A resolution on following Christ and growing together as communities ev... 
“Are you feeling groovy?!” bellowed brothers Keith Lyndaker Schlabach and Brent Lyndaker at the start of their seminar, “Got game? Developing and playing peace games: A PeaceGrooves gathering.”
They had to repeat the question several times until a satisfactorily energetic “Yes!” echoed through the audience.
The brothers began their project, PeaceGrooves, out o... 
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