Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship launches
By Melanie Zuercher When Kristen Metzler-Wilson of Nelsonville, Ohio, arrived at the annual convention of Mennonite Medical Association and Mennonite Nurses Association, her name tag designation, "Guest," reflected how she felt-like a stranger. But by the weekend's end, she was able to say she was now "a member of the family"--a new one formed by the official dissolution of the two organizations (each with almost 70 years of history) and the birth of Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship ...  Read more ...Ervin Stutzman, executive director of Mennonite Church USA, holds a brochure that lists the mission statement and gives characteristics of the newly formed Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship. Photo by Dottie Kauffmann.
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College Corner: Bluffton student's Christmas arrangements to be published
Last fall, Scott Troyer was a Bluffton (Ohio) University sophomore who wrote arrangements of some of his favorite Christmas carols for his saxophone trio to perform. Soon, Troyer will be a published musician-"very unusual" for an undergraduate his age, according to his composition teacher at Bluffton, Peter Terry ... Read more ...
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College Corner: Great Laurel and ceramics at Laurelville
Last week I shared about the Anabaptist Missional Project gathering at Laurelville Mennonite Church Center, Mt. Pleasant, Pa., in the Laurel Highlands in western Pennsylvania ... Read more ...
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