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Articles : Feb. 1, 2010

Message of peace

Music was a significant part of our All Saints/All Souls Day service on Nov. 1. “Waiting: An Elegy for choir and cello,” a lament for the dead, was performed.
Pastoral changes

Baby dedication: Eliana Sartori, daughter of Eric and Rachel Sartori, on Dec. 20.

Pulling a nation from the ruins

Haiti owns the unfortunate label of “poorest nation in the western hemisphere.” That may be true financially, but money is not the sole measure of wealth. Haitians are rich in courage, generosity and resilience. These qualities, evident in the days after the Jan. 12 earthquake, hold the key to Haiti’s recovery.

More use of statement on conflict encouraged

Lavonne van der Zwaag and her 16-year-old daughter, Anna, wore pink last July at the Mennonite Church USA convention.
Haitians hold fast to faith after quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Did God abandon Haiti?
Calgary churches advertise peace

Six Calgary, Alta., Mennonite churches countered consumer-driven ads over the holiday season with a “Live for Peace” campaign.

Facts dispel church-state ‘confusion’

WASHINGTON — Legal experts from the left and right hope a new statement of shared principles on religious expression in public life will lead to fewer church-state lawsuits.
Message still rings true, King friend says at Bethel

NORTH NEWTON, KAN. — In 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the stage in Memorial Hall at Bethel College and told his listeners they needed to be “maladjusted.”
Democracy needs ‘loving community’

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Although Vincent Harding had been invited to Bethel College to give the keynote address at a program honoring Martin Luther King Jr., his main purpose for being on campus Jan. 16-18, he said, was not to speak but to listen.
Korean Anabaptist Fellowship founded

UPLAND, Calif. — From the seeds of shared stories, the Korean Anabaptist Fellowship was born Nov. 19-21.