Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : March 2, 2009

Congregations

• Sunday School revitalized

  How can we make Sunday school more exciting for children and teachers? What more can we do to enhance the way our children learn and retain Scripture? These and similar questions by the children’s nurture department resulted in a change in the children’s Sunday school curriculum — one created by members of JSMC that utilizes the Workshop Rotation Model of learning. Carole Giagnocavo, children’s nurture director, presented the concept to the superintendents and teachers of children’s Sunday school, who eagerly embraced the idea. The curriculum concept was then presented to the congregation. After months of planning and praying, on Dec 7, JAM (Jesus and Me) @ JSMC was inaugurated for children in kindergarten to grade six.

Editorial

• New directions for peacemakers

  The vision for Christian Peacemaker Teams — put forth initially by Ron Sider, author and professor, at the 1984 Mennonite World Conference assembly in France — is 25 years old this year.

Feature

• Spiritual homelessness leads to work with homeless

  NEWTON, Kan. — Lee Penner felt like a man without a spiritual home.

• The look of hope

  PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss., DIAMOND, La., and NEW ORLEANS — Some Mennonite Disaster Service clients gush with thanks. Others find just a few words are enough.

• War over, trauma goes on in Gaza

  A Mennonite Central Committee partner is working to aid families harmed by the recent 22-day war in the Gaza Strip.

• Germans learn ‘forgotten history’

  HALLE, Germany — When Darrel Weaver was offered an English-teaching job at Martin Luther University, he had no idea that his Mennonite background would provide classroom material.

• Interterm classes cross disciplines

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Bethel College students on campus for January interterm could choose from three new courses that evaluated modern issues and art forms through inquisitive and community-based learning.

• New Jersey pastor rallies teenagers to visit hospital patients

  CAMDEN, N.J. — Alberto Buster stepped out in an unusual act of hospitality on Christmas Eve.

Letters

• The real treasure

  The Feb. 16 editorial states that the treasure of Anabaptist churches is a commitment to imitating Jesus, including a life of nonviolence, and that this treasure must be protected and not lost by becoming mainstream American Christians.

• Abortion concern

  An open letter to President Obama: I am thankful God has placed you in this leadership role. Today I am writing about my concern for legalized abortion. As a follower of Christ’s living and teaching, I realize that all creation is sacred. I am a supporter of all mature, knowledgeable, intelligent persons having the privilege and right of free choice. In the case of unwanted pregnancies, that choice needs to come into play prior to conception. The participants must make the sane, responsible and conscious decision to take necessary precautions to avoid conception. That is the time of free choice.

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