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| 2003 |
 December |
Ministry provides
"new bridges" for immigrants moving
into Virginia Conference
Presidents say
"thank you" for giving to higher education
Mennonite Women
USA awards $7,000 in international scholarships
Church Education
Sunday materials available from MEA
Longtime churchman
was "backgrounder" for Mennonite Church
USA.
Farming with Values
that Last: Conference set in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Mentoring draws
new leaders into Mennonite Church USA.
Sidebar: Calling
all colors to share Christ.
Sidebar:
Educators, area
conferences cross borders to collaborate.
Sidebar: Are
you a mentor or youth sponsor 'wannabe?' |
| November |
Cokes, chats begin
friendship between Mennonite Church USA, Congolese
churches.
Mustard seeds of
faith grow into branches reaching around the world.
20 ways - and many
more - to join God's mission in the world.
Conference nurtures
teachers to tend young lives in Mennonite schools.
Sidebar:
Speaker, writer
on education and spirituality found role model
in his father.
Sidebar:
Conference provides
friendship, growing vision.
MEA board members
interact with Mennonite educators at October conference.
Sidebar:
MEA board member
brings historical perspective to brand new agency.
Four windows look
onto landscape of Mennonite education across the
United States.
God speaks to African-American
pastor through a dream that she makes reality.
MC USA Health Plan
remains vibrant as it continues second year.
Commentary: Why
I wish every Mennonite could attend the Constituency
Leaders council. |
| October |
Area conferences
to join center stage in Mennonite Church USA.
Ohio Mennonite
Conference finds it's not alone in need to restructure.
Western District
Conference provides one of many pictures of change.
Three pastors forge one multiracial
family in Norristown, Pa.
Cincinnati Mennonite Arts Weekend
to bring encounters on the margins.
MPN consultation
shows that fresh breezes of hope revive ministry.
Sidebar: Second
phase of MPN Barnraising Campaign adds to strong
foundation.
MPN's executive
director turns from publishing a magazine to managing
a network.
New director
of Faith & Life Resources brings pioneering
spirit to her post.
Mennonite
professor featured in CBS special about peacemakers
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| September |
MWC global
gift-sharing brings acceptance of 'beautiful differences.'
Children see
God's hand in full plates of food.
Commentary:
Lost and found.
For International
Choir at MWC Assembly, music is universal language
and prayer.
Youth Summit
in Zimbabwe helps youth experience leadership
call in new context.
Executive
Board announces staff and budget reductions for
2004.
JoinHands
passes $1 million mark in grants to congregations.
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| August |
Zimbabweans'
hospitality spills into lives of MC USA Executive
Board delegates.
U.S. Mennonite
women help Indian sisters to come to Bulawayo.
Institute
encourages individuals to clean their spectacles.
EMU to hold
bioethics conference.
Atlanta 2003 connects Lancaster Conference to
others at denomination's table.
Sidebar: Vision
2010
Commentary: Faith
and pledges of allegiance. |
| July |
Hispanic ministry
transforms "Red Zone" into Community
of Love in Philadelphia.
Two congregations
merge to become Scottdale (Pa.) Mennonite Church.
Joint Youth
Ministry Council explores God's call for young
people.
Mennonite
builds houses and friendship with former President
Jimmy Carter.
Sidebar: A
prayer of blessing for Jimmy Carter
Six tables
show where God's people gather, there is God.
Mennonite
leaders in Civil Rights era return to Atlanta
bearing peace message.
Unseen host
brings harmony in diversity to delegate floor
Atlanta 2003 participants
find place at God’s table and extend banquet
to the city
Adults hear of
civil rights involvement
Mennonites
commit to reconciliation
Centennial park
hosts Mennonite hymn sing
Highlights
for July 5-6
Mennonites
make impact on Atlanta
Abortion statement
passed
Prayer for freedom
Children welcomed
at table too
Carter
applauds unity
Delegates
from Mennonite Church USA to bond with global
family at Africa 2003.
Missional
CD project proclaims one message through many
voices.
Native Americans play integral part in Mennonite
history.
MPN ends year
with operating surplus, looks to next phase of
"barn raising."
Bluffton,
Ohio, congregation receives grant from Calvin
Institute
Mennofolk
2003, fourth annual music festival, set for July
20. |
| June |
Jimmy Carter
to speak July 3 at Atlanta 2003
A new family
at Bally (Pa.) Mennonite congregation is fruit
of missional outreach.
Pennsylvania
youth head for unknown destination on mission
road trip.
Conference
executive uses gifts to help Mennonite Church
USA develop capacities.
Author provides
insights and ideas about relationships.
 Sidebar:
Review of
Chapter Five, "The Ideal Family and the Mennonite
Church."
Commentary:
What is Missional? |
| May |
Philadelphia conference
celebrates many stories, one kingdom.
Philadelphia women
who are backbone of congregations share "book"
of their lives.
16th-century Anabaptists
and modern-day mentors shape a young man's life,
lyrics.
10,000 Mennonites
to come to God's table and invite others to the
banquet.
Disaster yesterday,
award tomorrow for Mennonite Church USA Great
Plains office. |
| April |
Executive Board
provides safe place to explore racism, dismantle
white privilege.
Executive Board
Web designer integrates technical and pastoral
gifts.
Eleanor Snyder
appointed as director of Faith & Life Resources
MC USA Executive
Board connects with constituents, examines work
of biennium
From Gutenberg
to gigabytes.
Sister-Link
mission program uses women's relational gifts.
Pennsylvania
stranger becomes neighbor in Atlanta neighborhood.
Commentary
by Susan Mark Landis: Smell of death, taste of
life.
JoinHands
is new name for Mennonite Men's church-building
program.
Two-hat job
pared down to one-hat post for Executive Board
staff member.
Growing trust
helps CLC walk the MC USA journey together.
Financial
survey of church's first year shows challenge
and opportunity. |
| March |
Urban "farmers"
invest seed money into Ten Thousand Villages stores.
MEA board
continues to shape vision of newest churchwide
agency.
Still time
to save $25 on Atlanta 2003 registration fee.
Photo release:
"Mennonite Women USA pray around the world."
Mennonites
hold prayer vigil across street from United Nations
Ron Rempel
appointed executive director of MPN effective
August 1
Congregations'
financial support saves Mennonite Publishing Network's
VBS series.
Ben Sprunger
appointed new interim head of MPN.
Quilts encourage
"Praying Our Way to Assembly."
Anglo, Hispanic
pastors use same language of hope in multicultural
Miami.
Sidebar: Former
immigrant now pastor of Hispanic congregation
in Miami.
Sidebar: Pastor,
urban ministry director has prophet's passion
for urban frontiers.
As nation's
drumbeats for war intensify, Mennonites called
to kneel in prayer.
Forty-day
fast for peace ends the day MC USA called to prayer
and fasting.
Letter from
Jim Schrag.
By the Rivers
of Babylon, a service of lament. |
| February |
New churchwide
"Lead-It" team cultivating a culture
of call in MC USA.
MPN announces
positive preliminary financial results for fiscal
year 2003.
Sunday school
class in Scottdale, Pa., brings Gospel of Mark
to life.
Zehr Walker
named MEA associate director
Abortion statement
to be tested by many groups before delegate vote
at Atlanta.
Mennonite
Men and Mennonite Disaster Service collaborate
in first joint project. |
| January |
New binational
magazine for leaders to build on former 'Builder.'
Fourth- and
fifth-graders inspire Trinity Mennonite to reach
out to their neighbors.
"Product"
of Mennonite outreach passes on gift as missional
church team member.
MC USA congregations
can be yeast of peace in violence-saturated world.
Former Jamaican
nominated as moderator-elect of Mennonite Church
USA.
Mennonite Church USA 2003 Directory is user-friendly
"family album." |
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