MWR : Articles : May 28, 2007

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Articles : May 28, 2007

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Editorial

Gift of humor blessed the church

Lee Eshleman, who died May 17 at the age of 43, was one of the best-loved people in the Mennonite church. We like people who make us laugh, and we love those whose humor warms our hearts and brings us joy.

Feature

Illinois church embraces diversity with pastoral search

MARKHAM, Ill. — In the Sunday morning chairs at Community Mennonite Church, worshipers with skin tones from dark to light sit side-by-side to pray and praise.
‘Post’ key to literacy, information in Mexico

NUEVO CASAS GRANDES, Mexico — Jake Fehr doesn’t have a subscription to Die Mennonitische Post, but whenever he has enough money to buy a paper he stops at the Mennonite Central Committee resource center here to pick one up.

News

Peace path planned in Switzerland

LIESTAL, Switzerland — Bienenberg Bible Institute is planning to build a peace path to promote peace and to commemorate the help American Mennonites gave to Europeans after World War II.
Mobile meat canner completes its 60th year

AKRON, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee’s mobile meat canner completed its 60th year of operation in April. The 2006-2007 meat-canning season yielded 562,329 cans of meat for hungry people around the world.
Doctors join for Congolese health

NYANGA, Congo — Twenty surgically gloved fingers raced against the dwindling supply of fuel in the hospital generator.
Canadian pastor brings Anabaptist message to churches in South Korea

SEOUL, South Korea — A Korean pastor from Canada returned to the land of his heritage recently to spread the Anabaptist perspective on Christian faith.
Bethel grads, families celebrate

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Commencement at Bethel College traditionally places high emphasis on family. As in the past several years, members of each graduate’s family were invited to stand and be recognized when he or she walked across the Memorial Hall stage to receive the diploma.
Africans side with Zimbabwe’s president against the West

When African leaders nominated Zimbabwe – a country with 2,200 percent inflation, looming famine, and authoritarian tendencies — to chair the U.N. Commission for Sustainable Development this month, they may have been sending the world a message.
‘Yerba mate’ helps fuel outreach in Argentina

CHOELE CHOEL, Argentina — Broken-down vehicles and empty thermoses may be among the church’s best mission strategies, a four-member Mennonite Mission Network RADical Journey team is discovering.