MWR : Articles : April 21, 2008

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Articles : April 21, 2008

Building unity at two levels

“Following Christ is best done together,” says Victor Wall, executive secretary of the International Community of Mennonite Brethren, writing in Christian Leader, the U.S. MB magazine. He encourages MBs to grow in unity at all levels, from individual to international.

Author connects Anabaptist and Emergent movements

OAK PARK, Ill. — Brian McLaren, an author and speaker, has conflicting views about the term “Christian.”

Many gifts raise new Thai church building

BORABU, Thailand — When Pat and Rad Houmphan did not have enough funding for a new church building and fellowship center, they trusted in God’s provision.
India seminary expands its role

PUNE, India — Union Biblical Seminary has received approval to train doctoral candidates, filling a need for Mennonites and other evangelical Christians.
Canadian MB Churches ordain first two women

Two British Columbia pastors this spring became the first women ordained for pastoral ministry by the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches.
Teen girls get positive message

They crossed the border in late January and made their way through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas, leaving in their wake a positive message for hundreds of teenage girls.
MMA grants help during economic hard times

GOSHEN, Ind. — For the first time, Mennonite Mutual Aid’s annual spring Sharing Fund drive enables people to target their donations to provide aid to people in financial crisis.
African-American visitors explore missions in Africa

Members of the Jola and Balanta tribes welcomed African-Americans as long-lost cousins last fall in the tiny West African nations of Gambia and Guinea-Bissau.

Inspired to rebuild

Haggai, one of the minor prophets, is not a book that usually gets much attention. But it contains lessons for our own life and time.

Last footwashing?

The practice of footwashing has been meaningful to me during my long life. I am now asking myself, however, whether I participated in it for the last time during the past Maundy Thursday.