EMU students protest investment practices
From The Weathervane of Eastern Mennonite University

As a crowd of students gathered to sit in solidarity outside of the Financial and Audit Committee meeting on Nov. 12, the Students for Morally Responsible Investment (SMRI) presented their stance against Eastern Mennonite University's investment in companies which help fund or further oppression in Israel/Palestine. EMU is in Harrisonburg, Va.

After an initial meeting in September between representatives from SMRI, Everence, Mennonite Education Agency and EMU administration, SMRI was given a thirty minute time-slot to present to the committee on the topic of selective divestment ...

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Myers is Mennonite presence at U.S. Homeland Security
By Everett J. Thomas

David Myers, a former Mennonite pastor, brings an Anabaptist presence to the Department of Homeland Security as the Director of the Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

"Even though I haven't been actively part of the church for a number of years," Myers said at a small gathering in Goshen, Ind., on Nov. 6, "I do see what I've done as a ministry of the Mennonite church" ...

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Shank, mission worker on three continents, dies
By Mennonite Mission Network staff

After a lifetime of serving the church on three different continents, David Arthur Shank, 86, died Oct. 20 at his home in Goshen, Ind.

His passing came just weeks after Shank and his wife of 62 years, Wilma, were honored with the Goshen College Culture for Service Award, given in tribute for lives spent in respectful and culturally-appropriate mission work through Mennonite Mission Network and a predecessor agency in Europe and West Africa ...

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College Corner: Call to help answered with leading of 5-year-old
From Bluffton University

Five years ago, a biblical prophecy became particularly pertinent to Scott Sundberg and his family. The little child who led them was Sundberg's older son Leif, then 5, whose "prophetic voice" seemed intended to change his father's behavior-and destined to change his life.

About a year later, Sundberg, his wife Wendy and their two sons left Southern California for what he calls a "cross-cultural experience" in Lancaster, Pa., where he became communications director for Mennonite Disaster Service.

Speaking at Bluffton (Ohio) University Nov. 9, Sundberg discussed how disasters affect the poor and how an Anabaptist perspective of helping one's neighbor impacts the response to helping them ...

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