By Anna Groff The Mennonite Church USA convention in Phoenix began today. Registration opened at 10am local time. Hal Shrader, pastor of Trinity Mennonite Church in Phoenix, is the speaker for the youth worship tonight. Cheryl Bear is slated for the adult worship ... Read more ...
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Cloth market supports Congolese women's theological studies
By Charlie Malembe and Nancy Myers of Mennonite World Conference"We who were hidden in the shadows have just come out into the light!" exclaimed a young woman preparing for the ministry in the Congo Mennonite Church in a recent interview. Charlie Kasha Kamba, 21, from Nyanga, is one of four female first-year students, ages 21-62, enrolled at the Kalonda Bible Institute, located near Communauté Mennonite au Congo (CMCO - Congo Mennonite Church) headquarters in Tshikapa ...  Read more ... From left: Thérèse Tudiakuile, Charlie Kasha Kamba, and Marie-Louise Tumba Yama in class at Kalonda Bible Institute. Photo by Joseph Nkongolo.
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College Corner: Volunteers contribute more than 5,000 hours in a year
By Mary E. Klassen of AMBS
A late May event at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind., celebrated volunteers and their contribution of nearly 5,000 hours of time to AMBS last year ...  Read more ... Photo: Dot Smucker (right) was honored by Jewel Gingerich Longenecker, associate dean for leadership education, for surpassing the 1,000-hour mark in her volunteering at AMBS.
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Tim's blog: Jesus' bad example: Overturning Tables at Phoenix 2013
Guest post by Charletta Erb
For several months, Charletta has been designing a collaborative project "Overturning Tables" looking at margins and intersecting oppressions in light of Jesus' cleansing of the temple. Space for an art installation was refused in the Mennonite convention in Phoenix July 1-5 ...
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