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Articles : North America

MCC event to counter lure of military recruiters

AKRON, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee U.S. is organizing a Nov. 3-5 conference that will bring together youth and adults from across the church to gain tools to counter the lure of military recruiters and increasing militarism in U.S. society.
MCC workers help preserve Hmong culture

HICKORY, N.C. — At Hickory Hmong Mennonite Church, Mennonite Central Committee Summer Service workers helped ensure the Hmong language and culture is passed on to children and youth and assisted new Hmong families as they adjusted to the United States.
Summer changes prompt question: Pews or no pews?

WALDRON, Mich. — After a successful summer with a different format for worship, Salem Mennonite Church is trying to answer a deep theological question: “Pews or no pews?”
Urban ministry leader dies at 83 in Ohio

CLEVELAND — Edward C. Taylor, a leader in Mennonite urban-ministry programs for a decade in the 1970s and ’80s, died Aug. 24 at the age of 83.

Generosity flows from family’s simple-living choices.

INDIANAPOLIS — It’s said there are two kinds of rich people: those who have lots of money and those who have few needs.
Goshen professor perseveres in battle with paralysis

GOSHEN, Ind. — When Carolyn Schrock-Shenk was growing up in a Conservative Mennonite home near Middlebury, she was, at one point, the fastest runner in her elementary school and an all-around athlete.
MDS helps survivors restore normal lives

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. — People entering Brenda Payne’s new house a few blocks from the Gulf of Mexico paused at the top of her elevated porch to remove their shoes.
MDS prepares to return to Buras, La.

BURAS, La. — As Mennonite Disaster Service gears up to start new projects in Buras, devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, MDS remembers work that it did in the area not long after Katrina hit a year ago.
MDS service is Hesston ‘classroom’

HESSTON, Kan. — Seven disaster management students at Hesston College spent part of their summer on the Gulf Coast or in Canada as part of their course work.
Pastor eager to return to pulpit

BELLE CHASSE, La. — Tony Duplessis is looking forward to the day when he can go back to the pulpit at Lighthouse Fellowship Church.