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Jason Boon is coordinating minster of the Peace and Justice Support Network, a ministry of Mennonite Mission Network. People and congregations who have used the “Returning Veterans, Returning Hope” Curriculum are asking, What do we do now? While there isn’t a pattern or program to follow, here are some ideas on how your church can continue to learn more about the spiritual wounds of war and begin to take action. STAR Training at Eastern Mennonite University. Trauma underlies the difficulties many Veterans face after combat. STAR Trainings were the most helpful tools for me in understanding those difficulties and how...
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This is the fourth post in a series featuring people, congregations and organizations working with veterans who have experienced the trauma of war. The Peace and Justice Support Network, a joint project of Mennonite Mission Network and Mennonite Church USA, offers a six week Sunday School curriculum, Returning Veterans, Returning Hope, focused on returning veterans and how the church can play a part in their healing journeys. This curriculum draws from biblical reflection, the latest understandings of trauma and moral injury, and the experiences of veterans themselves. Ken Landis is the director of SHELTER44. He lives in Lewis County, New...
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This is the third post in a series featuring people, congregations and organizations working with veterans who have experienced the trauma of war. The Peace and Justice Support Network, a joint project of Mennonite Mission Network and Mennonite Church USA, offers a six week Sunday School curriculum, Returning Veterans, Returning Hope, focused on returning veterans and how the church can play a part in their healing journeys. This curriculum draws from biblical reflection, the latest understandings of trauma and moral injury, and the experiences of veterans themselves. Nancy Shebeneck attends Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Gainesville, Florida where she taught the...
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This is the second post in a series featuring people, congregations and organizations working with veterans who've experienced the trauma of war. The Peace and Justice Support Network, a joint project of Mennonite Mission Network and Mennonite Church USA, offers a six week Sunday School curriculum, Returning Veterans, Returning Hope, focused on returning veterans and how the church can play a part in their healing journeys. This curriculum draws from biblical reflection, the latest understandings of trauma and moral injury, and the experiences of veterans themselves. John Kreider grew up on a farm near Palmyra, Missouri, and was number four...
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This is the first post in a series featuring people, congregations and organizations working with veterans who have experienced the trauma of war. The Peace and Justice Support Network, a joint project of Mennonite Mission Network and Mennonite Church USA, offers a six-week Sunday School curriculum, Returning Veterans, Returning Hope, focused on returning veterans and how the church can play a part in their healing journeys. This curriculum draws from biblical reflection, the latest understandings of trauma and moral injury, and the experiences of veterans themselves. Jason Boone is the coordinating minister of the Peace and Justice Support Network....
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In response to the escalation of violence involving Israel, Iran and the United States, Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz offers this litany that reminds us of God's call to peace. Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz is Mennonite Church USA’s denominational minister for Peace and Justice. For more than 25 years, she served as the coordinator ofMennonite Central Committee’s Restorative Justice program. She also co-authored “The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools” and “What Will Happen to Me?” Lorraine graduated from Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, with a bachelor’s degree in Social Work, and earned a master’s in Social Work from Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania. She...
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By Mennonite Church USA staff, in collaboration with the Mennonites Against Militarism reference council Some trust in their war chariots and others in their horses, but we trust in the power of the Lord our God. Psalm 20:7 On December 27, 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2022, which authorizes $770 billion in defense spending. The measure was put forward with strong bipartisan support from Congress. Federal budgets are moral documents, reflecting what we value and prioritize collectively as a nation. As a faith community committed to the just and...
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By Annette Brill Bergstresser ELKHART, Indiana (Mennonite Church USA/Mennonite Mission Network) — A six-week Sunday school curriculum — Returning Veterans, Returning Hope: Seeking Peace Together — can help small groups and congregations who want to explore how the church can play a part in the healing journeys of returning veterans. The materials draw on biblical reflection, the latest understandings of trauma and moral injury, and the experiences of veterans themselves. “We have long known that war affects not only innocent civilians but also those we ask to fight,” said Carolyn Holderread Heggen, trauma psychotherapist and creator of the “Transforming the Wounds...
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Jason Boone is coordinating minister for the Peace and Justice Support Network The first lesson in “Returning Veterans, Returning Hope: Seeking Peace Together”, a six-week Sunday School curriculum focused on returning veterans and how the church can play a part in their healing journeys, is about crossing barriers. The idea is that there are potentially many barriers that may prevent members of a peace church and military veterans from embracing each other as sons and daughters of God. We must recognize these barriers if we are to navigate around them and come to a place where Mennonites and veterans can...
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By Jason Boone Wars don’t end when the last shot is fired. After the organized campaigns cease, the residue of violence and pain lives on in the minds, bodies and souls of everyone touched by the conflict. This includes the soldiers who participated, directly or as witnesses, in the destruction of war. As the US military forces continue to be withdrawn from places like Afghanistan, the soldiers who come home face severe challenges re-entering civilian life. Physical, mental and spiritual wounds acquired in combat...
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