MWR : Articles : Oct. 5, 2009

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Articles : Oct. 5, 2009

Goodbye to pastor

Sixteen people from Kidron Mennonite went to Mennonite World Conference in Paraguay in July, including all of our pastors.
Sending mission workers

The congregation was blessed to send out many of its members into local and overseas mission fields.
Special MYF

The MYF is a special and appreciated group of teenagers in our congregation.

Today’s poor need a jubilee

Power is shifting in the global economy with decisions made at the Group of 20 summit. Yet the group’s economic recovery plan holds as much peril as promise for the world’s poor.

Book answers the quirky questions

SCOTTDALE, Pa. — What do Mennonites believe in? Who started it? Are Mennonites allowed to fight people that attack them? Why do they live the way they do?
Earth-friendly bags give fabric second life

EPHRATA, Pa. — Paper or plastic?

Health and freedom

David L. Weldy’s letter on health care reform asks, “Should there be individual freedom and self-determination? Does an individual have a right to the fruits of one’s own labor? Is there any freedom if there is no freedom to fail?”

Bethel board chair defends decision to remove president

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — The chair of the Bethel College board of directors on Sept. 25 defended the termination of the president as necessary for the institution’s health.
Bolivian colonist, accused of rape, dies

An Old Colony Mennonite man in Bolivia accused of rape died Sept. 16 after being punished.
Minn. pastor tells of living communally

BLUFFTON, Ohio — Dissatisfied that the Christianity around him did not look like Jesus, Pastor Mark Van Steenwyk founded an intentional community in Minneapolis.