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Articles : Mennonite Mission Network

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MMN and partners responding to Chile earthquake

NEWTON, Kan. — Expressions of concern began minutes after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile Feb. 27.

Linda Shelly, Mennonite Mission Network’s director for Latin America, received e-mail messages from across the Americas.
Leader raised his people’s voice

MTHATHA, South Africa —Thompson Mpongwana Adonis has guided leaders of African-Initiated Churches as well as Mennonite mission workers in South Africa for nearly three decades.

London Mennonite Centre hosts begin term

LONDON — After 40 years in Duncan, Okla., Barbara and Darrell Jantz have moved to the big city.

MVS returns to Rochester

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — After 35 years without a Mennonite Voluntary Service connection, Rochester Area Mennonite Fellowship is waiting to welcome a new crop of young adult volunteers.

New service unit will spring forth in Colorado

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — This fall, Service Adventure participants will have a new location for service, community and maybe even skiing.

Scripture recordings released in Argentina

FORMOSA, Argentina — After years of work parsing words and debating cultural interpretations, the indigenous Pilagá people of the Argentine Chaco will be able to hear New Testament books in their own tongue.

Worker in France named a most influential Protestant

PARIS — Neal Blough, a long-term worker with Mennonite Mission Network, was named one of the 100 most influential Protestants in France by La Vie, a Catholic weekly magazine.

Former workers return to lead service units

NEWTON, Kan. — Five former participants are returning home to Service Adventure, this time as leaders.

Couple care for mission workers

ELKHART, Ind. — Since they began their careers, Lois and Wayne Hochstetler have worked in the central United States to offer people support and encouragement — as a social worker and therapist and a pastor, respectively.