Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : March 30, 2009

Congregations

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  Blanket project links youth, mentors

  Beatrice, Neb. — Peace Club members from Beatrice Mennonite Church and First Mennonite Church met with their adult prayer partners in the basement at Beatrice Mennonite Church recently to tie a blanket for the Nebraska Mennonite Central Committee relief sale.

  Peace Club is the Wednesday evening program for elementary children attending the two churches. Each has been paired with a church member who is a mentor. The prayer partners were guests at three sessions this year.

Editorial

• A temple not built of stone

  People don’t go to church. People are the church. Being a fellowship rather than belonging to an institution is basic to the Mennonite concept of how to be Christian.
  

Feature

• ‘Rosanna’ reconsidered

  STRASBURG, Pa. — In 1940, at the age of 68, Joseph W. Yoder published the story of his orphaned Irish mother raised by an Amish widow.

• Praising God in their mother tongue

  ORODARA, Burkina Faso — Eight workshop participants eyed each other self-consciously and shifted uneasily on metal chairs in the recording studio.

• Bosnians face war memories

  HRUSTOVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The birth dates on the cemetery’s wooden grave markers and stone monuments vary, but the year of death is the same — 1992.

• Voice for the world’s unheard

  Tigist Tesfaye Gelagle, a 25-year-old Ethiopian Mennonite, has a keen interest in people outside her culture and in interfaith bridge building.

Letters

• Training pastors

  It’s great when our educational institutions train non-Mennonite men and women for pastoral ministry. But where are our own denominational leaders coming from? We should train any person called to Christian ministry, but we should also excite more of our own denominational members to the challenges of pastoral service and church leadership.

News

• West Bank CPT team meets with British diplomat

  AT-TUWANI, West Bank — British diplomat Tony Blair met with members of Christian Peacemaker Teams while visiting this Palestinian village in the southern West Bank March 19.

• Pastor tells of plane crash escape

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Rocky Miller’s last memory of his plane sinking into the sea was the splash.

• MMA cites stability despite ’08 losses

  GOSHEN, Ind. — Mennonite Mutual Aid’s 2008 financial results show a net loss of $3.2 million but also reveal long-term strength and stability, MMA leaders said.

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