Detroit Mennonite runs largest urban farm
By Anna GroffWhen Mike Score stood on a street corner by a vacant lot in Detroit, he felt a nudge from God to consider urban farming. That was 10 years ago. Score now works as president of Hantz Woodlands, a large-scale tree farm and subsidiary of Hantz Farms, located near that very same street corner ...
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Moderator-elect plans pilgrimage to Phoenix 2013
By John Tyson for Franconia Mennonite ConferenceElizabeth Soto Albrecht will become moderator of Mennonite Church USA at the denomination's biennial convention in Phoenix this July. Phoenix, however, will be only one of her many stops this summer ...
Read more ...  Photo: Soto Albrecht traces the planned route for this summer's journey to Phoenix. Photo by Emily Ralph.
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Dorothy Nickel Friesen interim director of AMBS-Great Plains
 By Mary E. Klassen of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical SeminaryDorothy Nickel Friesen has been named interim director of AMBS-Great Plains, the extension site of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind., that serves the central Kansas area ...
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College Corner: A moratorium on missions?
By David Evans of Eastern Mennonite Seminary I am calling for a moratorium on missions. That's simply a fancy way of saying, stop. It's time to lay to rest our mission strategies and ideas. Stop traveling the world in the name of Jesus. Stop planting churches in foreign mission fields. Stop sending our children on short-term missions trips. Stop fixing houses. Stop ...
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