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1868: Wadsworth Institute opened (GCMC) and local women’s societies furnished bedding and linens. The first women were enrolled at the school in 1876. 1880s-onward: Many local women’s mission groups formed in Mennonite contexts. 1889: Virginia Shank Showalter ordained as a deaconess to the Middle District of Virginia Mennonite Conference. Although they were an anomaly in the (old) Mennonite Church, around 28 women were ordained as deaconesses in the Middle District between 1861 and 1962. 1893: Women were among the first...
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Por Adriana Celis Permanezcan fuertes y constantes En medio aún de la virtualidad, la Iglesia Menonita Hispana -IMH llevó a cabo la Asamblea Bienal Anual, el 17 de julio pasado. Pastores, líderes y las agencias de MC-USA, Ministerios Hispanos, MCC y la Red Menonita de Misión también participaron. Al inicio de la Bienal se tuvo un tiempo de oración y adoración por parte de su director ejecutivo Ulises Arenas-Goossen y un tiempo devocional por parte del pastor Fernando Ramos, quien fungió como moderador. En dicho devocional se alentó a la iglesia para que en medio de los tiempos más difíciles...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Iris de León-Hartshorn serves as associate executive director of Operations and director of Human Resources for Mennonite Church USA (MC USA). She represents the staff on MC USA’s Leadership Discernment Committee and works to promote anti-racism and intercultural competency by providing leadership for various people of color organizations, such as MC USA’s Racial Ethnic Council, and by convening leadership gatherings, including Hope for the Future. ______________________________________________ When I think about the word “transformation,” I immediately think about the word “becoming” — like a caterpillar in the process of becoming a...
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Dona Park is a graphic designer and digital illustrator based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. She is a graduate of Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, and a former intern at ReconciliAsian. She has worked intensively on art for peacebuilding initiatives with Women Peace Makers in Cambodia and is a co-author of Navigating the Nexus of Art and Peace. More recently, Dona has worked with Mennonite Church USA to create art for several peace and justice initiatives, including “Laboring Toward Wholeness, A Training on Dismantling Patriarchy” and “Defund the Police? An Abolition Curriculum.” Mennonite Church USA thanks Dona for bringing the peace of...
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By Javier Márquez for MenoTicias en español Carlos Romero is the former executive director of the Mennonite Education Agency (MEA), an agency of Mennonite Church USA. Romero served as executive director since the formation of MEA in 2002. When you mention him to people who know him, they have good things to say. For example, Steve Kriss, the executive minister of Mosaic Mennonite Conference, said that Carlos “has provided a lot of blessings for our church.” Violeta Ajquejay, a member of the editorial team for MenoTicias, told us that “he is a leader who inspires confidence from the first...
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Introduction Video Transcript This week we’re moving into the part of the course where we discuss the extent to which policing is integrated into our lives. Today we’re discussing the role of policing...
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Por Javier Márquez In English Carlos Romero fue el director ejecutivo de la Agencia Menonita de Educación o, como se conoce más popularmente, el MEA, por sus siglas en inglés. Cuando lo mencionas con personas que han podido compartir en diferentes ocasiones con él, te encuentras que parecen ser unísonas las buenas opiniones, así por ejemplo Steve Kriss, el Director Ejecutivo de Mennonite Mosaic Conference opina que Carlos ha sido una persona “Que ha aportado mucha bendición a nuestra iglesia” y Violeta Ajquejay, miembro del equipo editorial de esta publicación nos ha dicho que “es un líder que inspira...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, the new worship and song collection from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. By Katie Graber and Sarah Kathleen Johnson As Sarah Kathleen Johnson describes in her article "More Than Singing," Voices Together (VT) is a book of history, scripture, theology, and more. This collection of songs and worship resources includes items from nearly every century since Jesus’ birth (and some from before). The timeline on page four of this Guide to Adopting Voices Together shows the historical breakdown of the texts and...
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Hope for the Future gatherings provide spaces of retreat, opportunities for networking and more for people of color across Mennonite Church USA. Racial/Ethnic Council is a leadership body that connects the distinct Racial Ethnic bodies across Mennonite Church USA – providing a space for building relationships,...
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Hannah Heinzekehr is the Communications Program Director at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She attends Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship in Goshen, Indiana. I’m sitting down to write this blog post in the midst of a moment in time where racism’s deadly consequences are on full display. In the last two months, murders of Black people by the police have led to renewed calls for racial justice and we’re in the midst of a pandemic that is exposing the systemic ways racism affects public health (a recent New York Times article found...
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All sources can be found below. 1886: Krimmer Mennonite Brethren establish the first African American Mennonite mission in the mining community at Elk Park, North Carolina. Missionaries involved included Heinrich V. Wiebe, Elizabeth Pauls Wiebe, Jacob M. Tschetter, Peter H. Siemens. 1897: First African Americans baptized as members of a Mennonite Church – Robert, Mary Elizabeth, and Cloyd Carter – at Lauver Mennonite Church, a congregation in the Juniata district of Lancaster Mennonite Conference. 1898: Welsh Mountain Mission established outside New Holland, PA. Early leaders included Amos H. Hershey, Samuel Musselman, Noah Mack, Levi Sauder, Lydia...
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Undoing racism and advancing intercultural transformation is a priority of Mennonite Church USA. Racism, antipathy and alienation stand in the way of Christ’s kingdom of love, justice and peace. As missional communities we will seek to dismantle individual and systemic racism in our church. We will also seek to develop intercultural competence, which means that we work to heal racial divisions, learn to live and work in a multicultural context, and value all the gifts of God’s diverse people. We envision people of many nations, tribes and languages as participants in the kingdom of God. We believe it...
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English version available here Publicado el 1° de junio del 2020 Por el personal de la junta ejecutiva de la Iglesia Menonita En medio de los recientes acontecimientos en torno al asesinato de George Floyd por parte de un policía de Mineápolis, el último acto de violencia fatal contra afroamericanos, la Iglesia Menonita de EE. UU. (MC USA) se une al duelo y el lamento. Lamentamos que sea un ejemplo más de la caldeada injusticia racial extendida por todo Estados Unidos y oramos para que la justicia de Dios descienda a nuestras comunidades como un río poderoso. No son tiempos...
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English Version Here Diposting pada 1 Juni 2020 Oleh staf Dewan Eksekutif Gereja Mennonite Di tengah-tengah peristiwa baru-baru ini seputar pembunuhan George Floyd oleh polisi Minneapolis, kekerasan fatal terakhir terhadap orang Afrika-Amerika, Gereja Mennonite USA (MC USA) bergabung dalam perkabungan dan ratapan. Kami menyesalkan bahwa ini adalah contoh lain dari ketidakadilan rasial yang membara yang menyelimuti Amerika, dan kami berdoa agar keadilan Tuhan mengalir seperti sungai besar di komunitas kami. Ini bukan saatnya bagi orang Mennonit untuk menjadi pendiam di negeri ini. Kami meminta jemaat kami untuk meratap dan berdoa bersama. Lebih dari itu, kami mendorong Anda untuk berdiri dalam...
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By Mennonite Church Executive Board staff Amid the recent events surrounding the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the latest fatal violence against African Americans, Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) joins in mourning and lament. We lament that this is yet another example of the simmering racial injustice that pervades America, and we pray for God's justice to roll down like a mighty river within our communities. This is not a time for Mennonites to be the quiet in the land. We call on our congregations to lament and pray together. More than that, we encourage you to stand...
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