MWR : Articles : June 21, 2010

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Articles : June 21, 2010

Spring celebrations

The Haiti fundraising dinner raised $6,395, enough to build two houses through Gospel Growers.
Visitors with vision

The Easter sunrise service on April 4 was planned by Bek Linsenmeyer and celebrated the roles of women in the resurrection story. Izaete Nafziger portrayed Mary Magdalene as she visited the now-empty tomb and ran to tell the news. A women’s sextet provided special music, and Linsenmeyer shared a meditation.
New leadership

The church honored the Easter season with a startling Good Friday drama presented by Beth, Bill and Steve McConnell and Paul Johnson.

True evangelical faith for today

“True evangelical faith cannot lie dormant,” the Dutch Anabaptist leader Menno Simons wrote in 1539. He went on to describe what a wide-awake evangelist ought to do. The list included acts of mercy — feeding the hungry, consoling the oppressed — as well as teaching the Word of God, praying for persecutors, returning good for evil and seeking “that which is lost.”

Uninsured take care of their own

America’s 46 million uninsured include the Amish and plain-sect Mennonites, but they’re hardly typical.
Wee wonder

This summer Mennonite Publishing Network is releasing Wee Wonder, a new curriculum for 2-year-olds.
EMS dean brings different background

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Professionally speaking, Eastern Mennonite Seminary’s next dean is cut from a different cloth.
On peace index, U.S. ranks 85th

The world is slightly less peaceful than it was a year ago, in part as a consequence of the global recession.

Real forgiveness

Three articles in the June 7 MWR prompt us to think about forgiveness: after years of denial, Floyd Landis’ confession for using performance-enhancing drugs to win bicycle races; efforts in Fresno, Calif., to help rehabilitate registered sex offenders; and the decision by members of Stahl Mennonite Church in Johnstown, Pa., to not press charges against a former pastor who stole money from the church.
Too centralized

This is slightly an exaggeration, but the trend is there: The Anabaptist reformers rejected the institutionalized church and spoke of the priesthood of all believers, while the Catholic church had its hierarchy in Rome.