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Bluffton graduate survives second accident

By Anna Groff

Allen Slabaugh, an MVS volunteer, survived the Bluffton (Ohio) University baseball team's bus accident on March 2, 2007, in Atlanta. The bus driver and his wife, along with five teammates, were killed in the accident. Four years later, Slabaugh survived another major traffic accident ...

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Federal funding cuts affect MMN service participants

By Mennonite Mission Network staff

Participants serving in Mennonite Voluntary Service and Service Adventure will not receive education grants through the AmeriCorps Education Award Program for the 2011-2012 term, Mennonite Mission Network has learned. The cuts are a result of the federal government's reductions to the AmeriCorps budget ...

Everence to lead seminars on credit card debt, modern slavery, retirement and more

From Everence

Everence Financial will have a significant role at the July 4-9 Mennonite Church USA convention, Pittsburgh 2011, according to planners. The presence will include a prominent exhibit, the sponsorship of more than a dozen seminars, activities for children and participation in convention programming.

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College Corner: Marlene Kropf, learner-teacher, retires after 25 years at AMBS

By Mary E. Klassen

When Marlene Kropf started school as a first-grader, she came home every day and taught her younger sister what she had learned. She already had an "impulse to tell someone else what I was finding exciting," Marlene said ...

Tim's blog: Wild Goose Festival: A brief review

This afternoon was the conclusion of the four-day-long Wild Goose Festival. The setting for the festival was Shakori Hills, a farm half an hour south of Durham, N.C. It was inspired by the Greenbelt Festival, a long-running U.K. Christian festival known for its combination of strong musical acts and speakers that bring together arts with social justice and peace ...

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