MWR : Articles : May 24, 2010

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Articles : May 24, 2010

Building bridges

Births: Colton Gene, March 1, to Nick and Michele Kimel; Jordan Easton, March 10, to Ryan and Ashley Troyer.
Published again at 92

Lois Kauffman published her first book, What’s That Noise?, in 1965, written to calm the fears of her brother. More than 100 of her children’s stories have appeared in Herald Press Sunday school papers. Now 92, Kauffman has published another book, Pedro’s Parade, an illustrated story about a boy who creates a parade with the help of friendly farm animals. This story written in the 1990s lay dormant until Kauffman’s son Dennis encouraged her and helped her to publish the book. Pedro’s Parade is written in English and translated into Chinese and Spanish.
Children engaged in Lent services

Throughout Lent the children’s feature incorporated a long piece of blue fabric. The first Sunday it was a tent under which the children could sit. Then it was formed into a well, a picnic blanket and a path. The fabric was then cut into cloaks, which the children decorated in Sunday school and then wore the next Sunday during the “Triumphal Entry.” As Jesus came down the aisle, they removed their cloaks and placed them on the path before him.

A test of support for immigrants

Since Scripture calls us to welcome the alien, can we worship in a place where immigrants feel unwelcome? That is a question Mennonite Church USA leaders need to decide this year. They are asking for advice from across the church.

Author explores Anabaptism without clothing of culture

Stuart Murray wanted to know what a naked Anabaptist looks like.
Iowa camp dedicates retreat center

WASHINGTON, Iowa — Crooked Creek Christian Camp recently dedicated Shepherd’s Inn, its newest retreat center.
MCC helps children of Palestinian refugees succeed in school

WEST BEIRUT, Lebanon — Nour Barkouk, a 15-year-old Palestinian refugee, wants to be a doctor.

A biblical theory?

Is the penal substitutionary atonement theory of Jesus’ death biblical or unbiblical?
Keeping it simple

Great editorial on the value of a simple lifestyle! As someone who still has my 20-year-old “Live simply, that others may simply live” T-shirt, I was distressed to see that we “non-plain” Mennonites find so little value in simple living. I wonder what people think “following Jesus in daily life” means, considering that Jesus was an itinerant rabbi with few possessions.
What they want

“Hard-Won Right Still Prized” correctly indicates that “in an era of high-tech warfare, military officials don’t need or want draftees.”