MWR : Articles : Sept. 4, 2006

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Articles : Sept. 4, 2006

A step toward gender equality

The first cracks in the structure of male dominance in Mennonite leadership are only a little more than 30 years old. By the standards of slow-changing church history, that’s only yesterday. Full equality of women and men in the pulpit is still a hope rather than a reality.

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.
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.
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.
Year of work has touched many

GULFPORT, Miss. — “Tough” would be one way to describe Remy Desemar.
Olympian sees beauty despite AIDS suffering

WINNIPEG, Man. — What struck Olympic athlete Cindy Klassen most when she visited Mennonite Central Committee-sponsored HIV/AIDs projects in Nigeria and Ethiopia this summer wasn’t the poverty or the suffering but the joy-filled hospitality, faith and hope of people who meet their challenges head on.

Needs remain great as MCC continues post-Katrina work

AKRON, Pa. — From New Orleans to Houston to Meridian, Miss., Mennonite Central Committee continues its more than $2 million response to Hurricane Katrina, a year after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005.
Newspaper story links kidnappings of reporter and CPT Iraq workers

Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll believes she may have been held hostage in Iraq by the same insurgent group that held four Christian Peacemaker Teams activists and killed one of them earlier this year.
Goshen presidential inaugural set Sept. 10

GOSHEN, Ind. — Goshen College is preparing for festivities to inaugurate James E. Brenneman as its 12th president, culminating with a public installation ceremony at 2 p.m. Sept. 10 in Sauder Concert Hall.