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Rachelle Lyndaker Schlabach serves as Director of the Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Washington Office. She leads workshops, writes and speaks on U.S. policy toward the Middle East and meets regularly with congressional offices and Administration officials to convey MCC's perspective on public policy. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Eastern Mennonite Seminary and is a graduate of Goshen College. She and her husband, Keith, have two children and live in Mount Rainier, Maryland. They are members of Peace Fellowship Church. About a year after the war in Syria started, I asked an analyst in Lebanon how long he...
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Originally published Aug. 26, 2013 ELKHART, Ind. (Mennonite Church USA)—Mennonite leaders recently joined their voices with those of other Christian leaders in a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama about the crisis in Syria. Highlighting the tragic pain and human suffering caused by the war in Syria, they expressed gratitude for humanitarian assistance and urged the president to apply full diplomatic energies toward a negotiated settlement. The letter urged the president to refrain from military assistance to any parties, stating, “Military involvement will only further escalate an already brutal war and will, in fact, undermine the prospect of negotiations to...
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This post is part of the MennoCon23 #BeTransformed series. MennoCon23 will be held in Kansas City, Missouri, July 3-6. Anthony Khair is the international fellow at Mennonite Central Committee's National Peace and Justice Ministries, a part of MCC’s international volunteer exchange program. Anthony is working on advocacy issues related to Palestine and Israel, Syria, Latin America, and migration. He is from Palestine but was born in Honduras, where he lived for 10 years before his family moved back to Palestine. Anthony has a two-year diploma of theology from Bethlehem Bible College. He was part of the model United Nations, a...
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This post is part of the MennoCon23 #BeTransformed series. MennoCon23 will be held in Kansas City, Missouri, July 3-6. Anthony Khair is the international fellow at Mennonite Central Committee's National Peace and Justice Ministries, a part of MCC’s international volunteer exchange program. Anthony is working on advocacy issues related to Palestine and Israel, Syria, Latin America, and migration. He is from Palestine but was born in Honduras, where he lived for 10 years before his family moved back to Palestine. Anthony has a two-year diploma of theology from Bethlehem Bible College. He was part of the model United Nations, a...
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This blog post is part of the "I choose to be Mennonite because ..." series. See the call for blogs and submit your own here. Nathan Perrin is an emerging writer and pastor of Christian formation at Lombard (Illinois) Mennonite Church. He holds a Master of Arts in Quaker studies and a certificate in Anabaptist studies. He is a doctoral student, studying Christian community development at Northern Seminary. His doctorate work centers on creating a writing program for nonprofits and churches to use to help under-resourced communities process trauma. His fiction has been published in the Dillydoun Review, Bangalore Review,...
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By Heather Grennan Gary View videos of the conference’s plenary sessions: ambs.edu/pastorsandleaders ELKHART, Indiana (Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary/Mennonite Church USA) — It’s been a rough two years for pastors and church leaders. During the early weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown, they scrambled to organize online worship services. As the pandemic progressed, they provided pastoral support for...
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Eleanor Kreider is the keynote speaker at this year's Pastors & Leaders | Deep Faith Conference (Feb. 21-24). The conference will draw insights from the late Alan Kreider’s book: “The Patient Ferment of the Early Church.” His wife, Eleanor Kreider, will offer brief reflections on the book at each session. Alan was professor emeritus of church history and mission at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) and author of several books. For many years Alan and Eleanor served as missionary teachers in England. While teaching in seminaries and speaking internationally, they stimulated interest in the early church. Eleanor is a church...
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Mennonite Church USA’s 2021 Advent at Home devotional, “Dare to Imagine,” was written by Talashia Keim Yoder, pastor of Christian Formation at College Mennonite Church in Goshen, Indiana. We invite you to wait for Jesus as we share weekly reflections and activities for all ages. Download the full Advent At Home worship guide. Week two: God's joyful song! Week of December 12 Focus Scripture: Zephaniah 3:14-20 Additional Lectionary Scriptures: Isaiah 12:2-6; Philippians 4:4-7; Luke 3:7-18 Weekly worship ritual Connect to the “big story” God created a good world. We were created to live peacefully, but we often miss the mark. When...
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Mennonite Church USA’s 2021 Advent at Home devotional, “Dare to Imagine,” was written by Talashia Keim Yoder, pastor of Christian Formation at College Mennonite Church in Goshen, Indiana. We invite you to wait for Jesus as we share weekly reflections and activities for all ages. Download the full Advent At Home worship guide. Week one: God's hopeful goodness! Week of November 28 Focus Scripture: Jeremiah 33:14-16 Additional Lectionary Scriptures: Psalm 25:1-10; 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13; Luke 21:25-36 Weekly worship ritual Connect to the “big story” God created a good world. We were created to live peacefully, but we often miss the mark....
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This blog is part of our Faith Formation Roundtables series. Ruth Goring is a poet, writer for children and visual artist, who grew up in Colombia as the daughter of missionaries. Besides her picture books for kids, she has published two collections of poetry: “Yellow Doors” and “Soap Is Political.” In 2021, she retired from a career in book editing, most recently at the University of Chicago Press. Ruth is the featured guest for the Oct. 12 Faith Formation Roundtable. _______________________________________________________ In recent years, I’ve been able to fulfill a childhood dream: writing and illustrating picture books. And becoming a...
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By MC USA staff Jason Kauffman, director of Archives and Records Management for Mennonite Church USA (MC USA), will be sharing a webinar, “Mennonite Relief Pioneers,” on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020 at 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT / 6 p.m. MT / 5 p.m. PT. The webinar is part of “The Anabaptist Story Lives On: Virtual Museum & Archive Tour,” a multi-week webinar series produced in partnership with nine other heritage organizations by TourMagination, an Anabaptist travel company. Kauffman’s webinar will highlight the work of the more than 100 Mennonites – such as Jacob C. Meyer,...
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Prayer written by Carmen Schrock-Hurst, Eastern Mennonite Seminary Leader: Lord we gather today facing uncertainty, anxiety and fear as the world struggles with the unknowns of Covid-19. We confess that we are troubled by rapidly changing events and we worry about how the ripple effect of this crisis may impact our own day to day lives and the lives of those we love. People: Healer of our every ill, Light of each tomorrow, Give us peace beyond our fear, and hope beyond our sorrow.* Leader: We pray now for those who are ill with this virus, and for the families...
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By Scott Roth Scott Roth is a credentialed leader in Franconia Mennonite Conference that is exploring and creating cultural masterpieces through Urban Expression North America and Young Life. Some of his current projects are the reconciliation of Eastern District and Franconia Mennonite Conferences, directing Bike & Sol, a community non-profit bicycle shop, and establishing and growing the ministries of Young Life in the Upper Perkiomen School District. Roth frequently speaks and writes for organizations and publications on youth formation, community development and incarnational ministry. This post is a reflection from the Conference Ministers’ Gathering, in Banff, Alberta, Canada, December 4-7,...
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In a culture wired for instant results, we often forget that meaningful change may take persistent action over a long period. This is a 35-year story of education and advocacy arising from the bomb-laden fields of Laos. Titus Peachey who, with his wife Linda Gehman Peachey, went to Laos on a Mennonite Central Committee assignment in 1980, tells the story in four parts. This series originally appeared in PeaceSigns, the online magazine of the Peace and Justice Support Network. Read part one, two and three. After 35 years of education and advocacy about cluster bombs and the development of significant new U.S....
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