Phoenix 2013 planners visit Arizona-Mexico borderBy Anna Groff
Planning for Phoenix 2013 involves more than touring the Phoenix Convention Center and selecting speakers for worship--the planners also prioritized an educational trip to the Arizona-Mexico border and into Mexico. On March 6, Mennonite Church USA cabinet members, convention planners and representatives from Mennonite Central Committee traveled to the border before further convention planning meetings in Phoenix through March 10 ... |
500 Mennonites and Amish on Christian cruise
By Serena Townsend, intern for The Mennonite On Feb. 27, 500 Mennonites, Amish and other Anabaptists from all over North America gathered on a Carnival cruise ship in Miami, Fla. Ryan Bomgardner, a Christian ventriloquist who has performed on Christian cruises for more than six years, was the MC and "comic relief" on this Sail and Sing Christian Cruise ...  Read more ... Ryan Bomgardner performs during the Sail and Sing Christian Cruise in Feburary. Photo provided. |
College Corner: Incoming EMU students honored for academics, service
By Mike Zucconi of Eastern Mennonite UniversityTwo incoming students will receive a full-ride scholarship to Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Va., while 75 additional students participated in an honors weekend on campus Feb 3-4 ... Read more ... Honors students at Eastern Mennonite University's campus center on Feb. 3-4.
Photo by Jim Bishop. |
Tim's blog: First Mennonite conference on Occupy plus The American Spring
 This spring will see the first Mennonite conference on the Occupy movement (at least that I'm aware of). The Anabaptist Missional Project will be hosting #Occupy Empire: Anabaptism in God's Mission at Eastern Mennonite Unversity on April 13-14. They have an impressive line-up of Anabaptist-minded peace and justice activists and thinkers ... |
