Four staff changes in Mennonite Church USA 

By Anna Groff with Mennonite Church USA and Hesston releases

 

Mennonite Church USA welcomes Iris de León-Hartshorn and Kent Miller as new denominational staff. The Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference named Rev. Richard (Dick) D. Davis as its new conference minister and Rachel Swartzendruber Miller was named vice president of admissions and financial aid for Hesston (Kan.) College ...

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Lancaster Mennonite reaches out to Chinese students

By Brian Wallace of Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

The number of Chinese students attending Lancaster (Pa.) Mennonite School has risen dramatically in recent years as more parents in China choose to send their children to LMS to prepare them for American college and university studies ...

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Xiaodong Fan, a native of China, will join the four-campus private school system next fall to teach classes in Mandarin Chinese and Chinese cooking and culture. Photo provided.

Together aided church outreach for 23 years

This Easter, for the first time in 23 years, the mainly-Mennonite eight page church-outreach publication, Together will not be filling thousands of mailboxes in communities across the U.S. and Canada.
 
Together at one time was in use by 80 congregations reaching an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 homes by bulk mail. It was a tabloid-sized newspaper sponsored by local churches that carried good news and outreach through stories focused on drawing persons to Christ and the church ...

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College Corner: Goshen launches three institutes 

By Jodi H. Beyeler

An "exciting new chapter" has begun at Goshen (Ind.) College, according to the college's President James E. Brenneman on March 24 as he launched three institutes, all focused on the college's distinctive academic strengths as they relate to faith.

Brenneman announced the creation and launch of the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism, the Institute for Ecological Regeneration and the Institute for Latino Educational Achievement ...

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Joining President James E. Brenneman (right) for the announcement were (left to right) Anita Stalter, Luke Gascho, John D. Roth and Rebecca Hernandez. Photo by Jodi H. Beyeler.

     

Tim's blog: Spring Collection 2011: Goshen buds, birds, blooms and insects

This week I'm pleased to bring you my third annual Apring Collection. This year we have a special Goshen edition, with all the photos coming from the yard around my parent's house on Holy Saturday. Another special feature of this year's collection is some beautiful (and strange) insects. Watch for the hair around the eyeballs look, it's the hottest trend this year!

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