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Timbrel announces new editor
Claire DeBerg
 
From Mennonite Women USA

Mennonite Women USA is pleased to announce that Claire DeBerg of Minneapolis, Minn., has been appointed editor, following the resignation of Patricia Wells Burdette. DeBerg, an active member of Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Minneapolis, is a graduate of Bethel University, St. Paul, Minn., and of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls ... 

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EB meets in Phoenix

   border
By Everett J. Thomas

On Jan. 11, 24 Mennonite Church USA leaders visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz., to talk to recently deported Mexican residents, learn more about the ministries serving undocumented immigrants and reflect on the militarization along the wall that blocks free movement from one country to another ...

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Photo: From left to right, Mennonite Church USA executive director Ervin Stutzman, Tina Stoltzfus Schlabach (who will coordinate the convention trips), Executive Board members Kenneth Thompson and Addie Banks (on fence) and Border Links trip leader Rachel Winch.


College Corner: Seminary prof also teaches beekeeping

 
By Laura Lehman Amstutz of Eastern Mennonite Seminary
EMU
Kenton Derstine, director of field education at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, Va., is not just mentoring future pastors, he is also mentoring future beekeepers ... 

Photo: Kenton Derstine (left) has been mentoring Tessa Gerberich in beekeeping and hopes to mentor more students and EMU community members in the future. Photo by Jon Styer.


    
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