MWR : Articles : May 5, 2008

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Articles : May 5, 2008

Get me to the church on time

“Church time isn’t like regular time,” laughed a lay leader after fielding a question on a capital project’s timetable.

Kansas church rebuilds with support from across nation

GREENSBURG, Kan. — Jeffrey Blackburn, pastor of Greensburg Mennonite Church, searches for words big enough to convey the gratitude for Mennonite Church USA’s support after a May 4, 2007, tornado destroyed the church.
At Wheaton, an intersection with evangelicalism

WHEATON, Ill. — At Wheaton College, “the Harvard of the evangelical world,” Mennonites find commonalities with and distinctions from a dominant branch of American Christianity. They also bring an Anabaptist influence to Wheaton, where many of the nation’s most rigorous evangelical Protestant academics study and teach.

Inauguration opens Tabor centennial

HILLSBORO, Kan. — Tabor College will begin a year of centennial celebrations May 9-11 with the inauguration of its 13th president, Jules Glanzer.
Goshen grads sent to seek high goals

GOSHEN, Ind. — Goshen College’s class of 2008 received degrees April 27 after being encouraged to be lifelong learners and to reach for high goals.
Global food crisis could multiply MCC’s role

WINNIPEG, Man. — Soaring food prices threaten to increase global hunger and poverty — two issues at the forefront of Mennonite Central Committee programs in many countries.
B.C. church floor collapse during concert injures 40

The floor of a British Columbia Mennonite Brethren church collapsed April 25 during a Christian rock concert, injuring more than 40 people.
Pennsylvania students see prison from inside

LANCASTER, Pa. — A visit to a local prison April 2 put a human face to classroom discussions of crime and punishment for 98 Lancaster Mennonite High School sociology students.
MWR wins top award from press association

DALLAS — Mennonite Weekly Review received the top award in its category at the Associated Church Press annual convention April 22.
For EMS grad, commencement is something new

HARRISONBURG, Va. — For John M. Stoltzfus of Stuarts Draft, it was his first commencement ever. Growing up in the Amish Mennonite church in Pennsylvania, he had finished his formal schooling with the eighth grade.