May 13 issue
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Photo by Tilahun Beyene
Indonesia pioneer partnership bears lasting fruit
In 1978 Luke and Dorothy Beidler moved to Kalimantan, Indonesia — where the Dayak people live along wide rivers in a great tropical forest — as pioneer missionaries with Eastern Mennonite Missions.
In a groundbreaking partnership between an Anabaptist mission agency in the global South and two from the West, the Mennonite Mission Board of Indonesia (PIPKA), EMM and Mennonite Central Committee united to send the Beidlers and others from Indonesia and the U.S.
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Kenyan pastime
NAIROBI, Kenya — Travis Tice teaches kids baseball in a country where few play the game. He works with the Kenya Redsox, a Nairobi-based organization that ministers to at-risk youth through recreational sports.
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EMU volleyball coach facing charge of battery
HARRISONBURG, Va. — Eastern Mennonite University announced April 30 its men’s volleyball head coach was charged with sexual battery, a misdemeanor.
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Holy rollers move Ohio church
The old Sonnenberg Mennonite Church building of Kidron, Ohio, traveled half a mile down the road and took over a month to get there.
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MCC regional director biking to 50 churches in Kansas
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Before John Stoesz steps down as executive director of Mennonite Central Committee Central States, he’s spending the month of May on a farewell bike tour of 50 Mennonite churches in Kansas.
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Welcoming stance affects church transfer request
CONESTOGA, Pa. — A Pennsylvania congregation hoping to transfer from one Mennonite Church USA area conference to another after expressing openness to gay members has received an invitation to associate membership.
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Congo’s growth exceeds resources
The quest to learn more about how Mennonite Church USA congregations and agencies find resources for their ministries brought visitors from the Democratic Republic of Congo to the U.S. in April and May.
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Ten Thousand Villages Canada cuts staff and stores
Ten Thousand Villages Canada has responded to a disappointing Christmas sales season by reducing staff and stores and increasing ties with its U.S. counterparts.
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Modern hymn writers revive a lost musical art
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Most songwriters in Nashville want to get their songs on the radio. Keith and Kristyn Getty hope their songs end up in dusty old hymnbooks.
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New name, new hope for survival at Colo. church
ARVADA, Colo. — Arvada Mennonite Church reached what longtime member Menno Gaeddert sees now as the height of its activity in the mid-1970s.
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Visits to mosque lead to Muslim friendships
EDMONTON, Alta. — A young man at the Al Rashid Mosque warmly welcomed Donna Entz and Miriam Gross and thanked them for their work within his Muslim community.
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After Christendom, what?
Our culture is undergoing a profound post-Christian shift. Pew Research continues to track a growing number of those who claim no religious affiliation. Barna Group recently released a study evaluating 15 measures of nonreligiosity that indicated 37 percent of Americans are post-Christian. As a culture, we are moving away from shared language and assumptions of Christianity. The church as we’ve known it is moving to the margins.
April 29 issue
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Enhancing college diversity
Dina Gonzalez-Piña experienced a bit of culture shock when she attended Mennonite Brethren-affiliated Fresno (Calif.) Pacific University in the 1980s.
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MC USA picks KC for ’19 convention
Mennonite Church USA will hold its 2019 convention in Kansas City, Mo. The decision, made during an Executive Board conference call Dec. 18, was based on saving time and money.
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Fresno Pacific’s veteran students accomplish a new mission
FRESNO, Calif. — Mid-December is the quiet after the storm at Fresno Pacific University. Most students are home for Christmas break, while the more adventurous take a mission trip.
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Saying ‘yes’ to Bethel football was only the beginning
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Leland Brown of Galveston, Texas, is, by his own description, “not a ‘no’ person.” But since coming to Bethel College almost two years ago, he’s become much more willing to say “yes.”
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MB Pacific District to add church in Las Vegas
The U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches is expanding into Nevada. Las Vegas will be home to a congregation that extends Pacific District Conference’s footprint to six states.
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Tech and violence against women at Bluffton forum
BLUFFTON, Ohio — When she opened her Twitter account recently, the first photo Katelyn Brewer saw was of a woman in her underwear, accompanied by the message, “Doesn’t my girlfriend look sexy?”
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With new sounds, music a metaphor for change at Rosedale Bible College
ROSEDALE, Ohio — If you could time-travel back to Holmes County on Jan. 1, 1952, you might see the beginnings of Rosedale Bible College.
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Football player not guilty in Tabor student’s death
A criminal trial concerning the death of a football player from Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kan., ended April 16 in McPherson, Kan.
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Historian makes timely visit
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — “A clock of the people.” That’s how Arthur Kroeger of Winnipeg, Man., author of the 2012 book Kroeger Clocks, sums up the clocks’ history and meaning in Mennonite history.
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Kansas relief sale garners $469,000
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The 45th Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale raised about $469,000 April 12-13, coming up $5,000 short of last year’s total.
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MDS concludes Joplin project
JOPLIN, Mo. — Nearly two years after a massive tornado struck Joplin, Mennonite Disaster Service has closed its project site.
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Partners reunite in Ecuador and Colombia
QUITO, Ecuador — Members of U.S., Ecuador and Colombia Mennonite churches gathered for a time of learning and fellowship in March.
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Songs go where sermons can’t
MORDEN, Man. — Leaving the bright lights for the stillness backstage, frontman Jordan Janzen of The Color is stopped by a teenage girl who had to thank him in person: The message of hope in his song “Cinderella” helped pull her through a battle with anorexia in junior high.
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