Articles : Feature
May 27 issue
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Photo by Rhoda Keener
Sister Care events go international
When Carolyn Heggen considered going abroad with Sister Care — a Mennonite Women USA-sponsored seminar to empower lay women for caring ministry — she, as co-facilitator, wondered what she could possibly have to teach women outside the U.S.
“So much of what I know about courage, resilience and persistence I have learned from women overseas,” said Heggen. “But we do have resources of education, of free time to create and write, of technology that many women don’t have… . We don’t spend four or five hours a day securing enough water so we can cook and do our laundry.”
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Japanese Anabaptist pastors defend ‘peace Constitution’
Japanese Anabaptists’ peace stance is being tested as the government considers amending its constitutional article prohibiting war.
May 13 issue
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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