Thai man transformed from alcoholic to entrepreneur
From Eastern Mennonite Missions
Boonrit Chananin, a former alcoholic who completed a small business training offered by Eastern Mennonite Missions and the Life Enrichment Church of Thailand, is now growing a banana orchard and raising ducks ...
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Opinion: Reflections of an 'Old' Mennonite in a former GC church
By Don Nofziger
I grew up Old Mennonite (Mennonite Church, MC), graduated from Goshen (Ind.) Biblical Seminary and pastored two Old Mennonite congregations, one dual-conference congregation and one former General Conference Mennonite Church congregation. I am now retired and a member in a former GC church ...
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Displaced Iraqis get food, supplies through MCC
From Mennonite Central Committee
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and partner organizations continue to meet needs of families displaced by conflict in Iraq with a mid-July distribution of locally purchased food and personal hygiene items ...

Photo: Fourteen-year-old Yusuf Yahiat carries a food package distributed by a MCC partner at the Garmawa Camp for displaced people in northern Iraq. Photo by Ryan Rodrick Beiler.
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College Corner: Bluffton hosts educators from China
From Bluffton University
A 23-member delegation from China West Normal University is learning about American higher education at Bluffton (Ohio) University as part of an ongoing exchange program between the two institutions ...

Read more ... Photo: Phil Sugden (right), chair of art, listens to a member of the visiting delegation from China West Normal University during a tour of Bluffton's Sauder Visual Arts Center. Photo provided.
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