MWR : Articles : March 23, 2009

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Articles : March 23, 2009

Values and beliefs

During a seven-week period in January and February, our worship services and Pastor Marty Troyer’s sermons focused on the six values that our congregation identified and affirmed during our long-range planning process. These values are our Mennonite heritage, worship together, relationships with one another, call to service, desire to grow and our location.

A call to walk with each other

The beautiful South African film Yesterday reminds watchers how little separates any of us in the world. Yesterday, the protagonist, works a small plot of earth and adoringly cares for her young daughter.

Encyclopedia online — all 14,160 articles

Richard Thiessen recently reached an important milestone, but his celebration was muted. That’s because everyone was asleep.
Quizzers learn Bible, life lessons

LANCASTER, Pa. — At first, Dawn Waltman thought Bible Quizzing was for academic Bible scholars.
When Easter was news

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Archived Easter radio specials from the 1960s are now available for a new generation online at Third Way Café.
Professor teaches conflict resolution, pastoral care in Palestine

WINNIPEG, Man. — Palmer and Ardys Becker, formerly of Hesston, Kan., are under special assignment by Mennonite Church Canada to teach and serve at Bethlehem Bible College in Palestine-Israel.

Builder of houses

Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat for Humanity, was well known in the Mennonite community. Fuller died Feb. 3, and a memorial service was held March 14 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Sprinkled throughout the audience of 2,000 mourners was a representation of Mennonites, some of whom were former Habitat for Humanity volunteers and board members.

After murders, families find a healing path

GOSHEN, Ind. — Four sisters — Ruth, Frieda, Bess and Suzy — have lived 40 years without their mother. Helen Klassen, a Sunday school teacher, was murdered March 14, 1969.
Former missionary sentenced in Virginia

A former missionary to China received a suspended sentence of nearly 10 years March 10 in Harrisonburg, Va., on charges of filming child pornography and taking indecent liberties with a child.
Church closes; vision lives on

HILLSBORO, Kan. — Such was the world view of Carson Mennonite Brethren Church of Delft, Minn., that even in closing its doors it made one more mission-minded decision.