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Menno Village in Japan offers refuge for quake evacuees

By Wil LaVeist of Mennonite Mission Network

About 450 miles north of the Fukushina Daiichi nuclear plant, outside of the danger zone where on March 11 a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake unleashed a deadly tsunami that slammed the nuclear plant, Mission Network associates Ray Epp and Akiko Aratani, directors of Menno Village, are among those who are offering neighborly help ...

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Meiko (center left) and Yoshiki (center right) Kanno, who have taken refuge at Menno Village, are in danger of losing their farm, which has been in the family for 18 generations. Photo provided.

MDS begins Alabama response

From Mennonite Disaster Service

A team of 13 Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers left Lancaster, Pa., on May 1 for a week of clean up and repair in tornado devastated Alabama.
The volunteers are part of the MDS Lancaster Unit Early Response Team. The ERT members are trained to work in disaster stricken areas ...

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Destroyed neighborhood in Pratt City, Ala. Photo by Jerry Klassen.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Meditation on the killing of bin Laden

By David A. Stevens

On May 1, the American media announced that U.S. military and intelligence personnel had killed Osama bin Laden and other Al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan. U.S. officials had bin Laden's body in custody. They had tested the DNA against that of his dead sister to confirm the identity ...

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Seven awards for The Mennonite

From The Mennonite staff

At the Associated Church Press' annual awards ceremony in Chicago on April 29, The Mennonite received seven awards for journalistic excellence. The seven awards matched a previous record set by The Mennonite in 2009.

Editor Everett J. Thomas received the award of excellence for "Words for Worship," his September 2010 profile of Marlene Kropf (pictured), and poet Tania Runyan received an award of excellence for her poem, "After the Annunciation" (April 2010).

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Russ Eanes to head MennoMedia

By Steve Shenk of Mennonite Publishing Network

Russ Eanes, director of finance and operations for Mennonite Publishing Network, will become executive director of MennoMedia on July 1 ...

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College Corner: Hesston students learn from preschoolers

There is rarely a lack of energy in the Hesston (Kan.) College lab preschool and a recent week learning about the importance of recycling was no exception. The preschoolers spent the week creating their own books, sorting recyclable items into the correct bins and creating 3-D art by gluing together recyclable materials ...