Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Marla Pierson Lester

June 13, 2011 issue

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  Photo by Silas Crews/MCC

  MCC counselors help Haitians live, work legally in U.S.

  BROOKLYN, N.Y. — In a small storefront beside First Haitian Church of the Brethren on Flatbush Avenue, Mennonite Central Committee East Coast immigration counselor Sara Mateo-Deo leans toward client Emmanuel Limonta, flipping through the thick sheaf of documents he has brought.

  As Mateo-Deo and Limonta confer in Spanish, Sylvia Shirk, pastor of Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship, uses her Haitian Creole to interview a woman who wants to bring her husband to New York from Haiti. Mere­dith Fortin, a law graduate working for Lutheran Social Services, works with a third client in French.

Feb. 28, 2011 issue

• Hoping for better future amid uncertainty in southern Sudan

  AKRON, Pa. — Southern Sudan is poised to become the world’s newest nation, and Mennonite Central Committee workers in the region see jubilation and challenges ahead.

• MCCers see joy, challenge for new African nation

  AKRON, Pa. — Southern Sudan is poised to become the world’s newest nation, and Mennonite Central Committee workers in the region see jubilation and challenges ahead.

Jan. 3, 2011 issue

• Love for Lapp crosses borders

  AKRON, Pa. — Two months after Mennonite Central Committee worker Glen Lapp and nine other aid workers were killed in rural Afghanistan, Lapp’s father, Marvin, brother Jerry and cousin Joe were welcomed in the guesthouse in Kabul where Lapp had lived.

March 29, 2010 issue

• MCC aid takes many forms in Haiti

  AKRON, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee structural engineer and medical volunteers are giving aid in Haiti, and distributions of food and relief supplies are ongoing as MCC plans next steps in its multiyear earthquake response.

Feb. 8, 2010 issue

• MCC responds to Nigeria violence

  AKRON, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee is planning a relief effort to respond to the needs of thousands of people forced from their homes by violence in the city of Jos and outlying areas of Nigeria’s Plateau State.

May 26, 2008 issue

• Appalachian gardens grow with MCC seeds

  Mary Sturgill’s answer to rising food costs lies just outside her home in Eolia, Ky.

Oct. 15, 2007 issue

• MCC book forum features Native American authors

  AKRON, Pa. — A new book forum supported by Mennonite Central Committee helps readers delve into the writings of Native American authors and see how their stories intersect.

Aug. 13, 2007 issue

• Amish sewing room inspires Puerto Ricans

  COAMO, Puerto Rico — Inspired by an Amish sewing room in Lancaster County, Pa., Puerto Rico’s Mennonite churches are establishing a sewing room on the campus of Academia Menonita Betania.

June 18, 2007 issue

• In New Orleans, MCC supports post-Katrina partnerships

  AKRON, Pa. — Before Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005, St. John Baptist Church in the Uptown area of New Orleans was a growing, thriving congregation with 300 members.

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