Mennonite World Review

Articles : Mennonite Brethren

April 29 issue

• 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.

• 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.

March 4 issue

• MBs affirm peace priority

  PHOENIX — U.S. Mennonite Brethren talked about disagreements Jan. 24-26 on two articles in their Confession of Faith: “Society and State” and “Love and Nonresistance.”

Nov. 26, 2012 issue

• MB leaders approve spending cuts

  Citing reduced giving and church-planting commitments, the U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Leadership Board approved 2012-13 spending cuts during meetings Oct. 12-14 in Denver.

Oct. 15, 2012 issue

• After fatal windstorm, Bible camp keeps the faith

  GRAND FORKS, B.C. — A Mennonite Brethren summer camp is using tragedy to deepen faith.

Aug. 20, 2012 issue

• U.S. Mennonite Brethren pass million-dollar budget

  OMAHA, Neb. — Delegates to the U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches biennial convention July 27-28 unanimously passed a $1 million budget that increases investment in church planting, national staff and promotion and marketing.

June 25, 2012 issue

• MBs consider new model for giving

  Delegates at the U.S. Mennonite Brethren biennial convention — Conection 2012 — July 27-28 in Omaha, Neb., will focus on unity, both in fellowship and finances.

April 2, 2012 issue

• As churches grow, Canadian MBs seek unity, identity

  Mennonite Brethren congregations in Canada are growing, leading the denomination to reconsider organizational structures that have not kept pace.

Feb. 20, 2012 issue

• MBs plan to review confession of faith for Canadian church

  In the Mennonite Brethren church, a global confession of faith adopted in 2004 unites each of the International Community of Mennonite Brethren’s 19 member conferences.

Nov. 21, 2011 issue

• Canadian MBs find unity on atonement

  A Canadian Mennonite Breth­ren Bible study conference waded into a potentially divisive issue and found a denomination remarkably unified.

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