MWR : Articles : April 5, 2010

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Articles : April 5, 2010

First service held

Jan. 10 was an exciting day as we held our first service in Reamstown.
Lessons from abroad

On Jan. 10, Sara Beachy told us about her work in Thailand under the International Peace Committee. She works with international refugees seeking to immigrate to the U.S. There are about 150,000 refugees in Thailand, many from neighboring Burma. She does the first interview for these folks, with the aid of an interpreter. This interview is the first of at least three, including one by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and a final one before the application for immigration is approved. She left to return to Thailand the next day.
Community activities

Emmanuel Mennonite had its last worship service at Westminster Presbyterian Church Feb. 28.
Renewing commitments

An Epiphany worship series included the annual “Covenant Renewal” Jan. 17, when people shared “100-word testimonies” to verbalize their commitment to God and to church membership at Community for another year or for the first time.
Compassion for Haiti

A spaghetti dinner, planned and carried out by 11-year-old Elizabeth Nisly with the encouragement and assistance of many friends and relatives, netted nearly $4,500 for the MCC Haiti relief project. She also wrote a touching poem.

A step toward health care justice

Passage of health care reform is a victory for principles of justice that Mennonites have affirmed in church statements and actively supported.

Manitoba town welcomes refugees

WINNIPEG, Man. — Safe resettlement could not come quickly enough for a Palestinian family that fled violence in Baghdad, Iraq, about four years ago and is now living in rural Manitoba.
New kind of Christianity

Traditional Christian values and modern culture need not clash, according to Brian McLaren.
Generosity crosses cultures

When Jeff Wintermote, pastor of Trinity Mennonite Church in Hillsboro, Kan., bought a wall-hanging from a Hmong woman in Thailand, he did more than help provide her year’s earnings.

It’s beyond them

I am uncomfortable with what many of our dear brethren have been saying in our publications, or statements to the “outer world,” or to folk of other religions, or to secular people of no faith. How can these folk even understand our biblical perspectives of Christian faith?