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Iris de Leon-Hartshorn, director of intercultural relations for Mennonite Church USA, is excited about what immigrants have to offer to the church. “They have a lot of resources from their background experiences,” she said. However, she and others in the church realize more needs to be done to support leadership development. She is working on an initiative to consistently provide more ...
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The children at convention are like ushers in a very large church this week. Every morning, children from kindergarten through fifth grade walk around with big metal tubs collecting coins and bills from other conventiongoers.
The offering is going to Iglesia Menonita del Cordero, a congregation in Brownsville, Texas, ... [Read More]
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It takes more than gray clouds and cool temperatures to keep the junior youth out of the water. Young Mennonites spent Thursday afternoon relaxing and having a blast at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and at Zoombezi Bay, a water park connected with the zoo.
More than 200 kids piled into seven buses to make the half-hou... [Read More]
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It turns out that Stanley Green, the executive director of Mennonite Mission Network, and the rest of the staff are as comfortable in the kitchen as they are in the mission field.
At the exhibit hall, Mennonite Mission Network has begun giving cooking demonstrations of simple dishes from locations where they have work... [Read More]
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On black drawstring bags, T-shirts, convention posters and paper headings is the phrase “Breathe and be filled” from John 20: 21-22.
Eighteen months ago, in the Columbus Regency Hotel, a balanced group of 24 organizers — 12 representing the youth convention and 12 the adult convention — met to determine the 2009 Convention theme. Two and a half days later, the task was finished.
“T...
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