MWR : Articles : Dec. 7, 2009

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Articles : Dec. 7, 2009

Knitting, film, earthcare

The MYF and adult sponsors and helpers put a lot of work into football parking for University of Iowa home games as well as cleaning up afterward. We emphasized “family friendly” behavior on our property.
New volunteers

Arienne Johnson and Andrea Kraybill, Goshen College students, preached on Oct. 4.

Where thrift and generosity meet

Jokes about Mennonite thrift are older than that stash of rubber bands you can’t throw away. “You know you’re really a Mennonite,” says The Mennonite Starter Kit (Good Books, 1993), “when the fact that someone would save old bread bags to braid into doormats doesn’t strike you as odd.”

Leader looks back on a time of change

NEWTON, Kan. — The words of Isaiah 6:8 — “Here am I, send me” — didn’t impress 13-year-old Jim Schrag at the time.
Memoir of going home is acclaimed, critiqued

Rhoda Janzen freely admits readers shouldn’t take everything in her new memoir literally.

The new ‘church’?

The debate on health care in MWR has missed a critical question.

Drug violence enters Mexican colonies

A gang kidnapped an Old Colony Mennonite man Nov. 14 in the Mexican state of Durango and released him the next day after a ransom payment.
MCC giving down, with bright spots

AKRON, Pa. — Giving by U.S. contributors to Mennonite Central Committee is lagging behind last year’s levels, but supporters continue to show their generosity through donations to several special projects.
Ministry leaders’ legacy honored

HARRISONBURG, Va. — John R. Mumaw was not a large man, but he was a big person.
Virginia mission agency joins Italy quake project

L’AQUILA, Italy — Virginia Mennonite Missions is joining European Mennonites in raising funds for a building project in this earthquake-devastated Italian city.