This week the Executive Board is expected to make a decision about whether Mennonite Church USA's 2013 convention should be held in Phoenix. The Executive Board plans to meet in Tampa, Fla., Jan. 7-9.

On Dec. 16, 2010, the Executive Board released a statement saying it was "leaning toward" a Phoenix convention despite concerns about Arizona's new immigration law that allows law enforcement officials to require proof of citizenship for anyone they ask. In a December 2010 letter sent to Mennonite Church USA leaders, Iglesia Menonita Hispana (Hispanic Mennonite Church) leaders made it clear they still want a boycott of Arizona ...

Ten days before Christmas, local authorities in District Two of Ho Chi Minh City seized and demolished the home of Pastor and Mrs. Nguyen Hong Quang, leaders of the unregistered Vietnam Mennonite Church.

Their home also served as a leadership training center and headquarters for the group of Mennonite congregations, which is distinct from the officially registered Hôi Thánh Mennonite Viêt Nam (Vietnam Mennonite Church) ...

With icebergs all around them, 20-mph winds and temperatures below freezing, folks from Living Water Community Church, Chicago, Ill., and a few others from Rogers Park in Chicago, plunged into Lake Michigan yesterday at high noon for the 10th Annual Rogers Park Polar Plunge ...