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| 2005 |
| December |
 Church member finds her missional niche.
New history project holds first editorial meetings.
Free sample sessions of Gather ’Round curriculum posted online
Mennonite Church USA experiencing funding shortage
Mennonite Church USA issues statement of support for CPT-ers in Iraq.
Statement from Mennonite Church USA in support of Christian Peacemaker Teams.
Congregation learns to live and serve as a community |
| November |
Mennonite Church USA seeks counsel on potential CCT relationship.
Student takes a stance for peace beliefs.
Sidebar: Student Aid Fund for Nonregistrants at work. |
 October |
Mennonite
Church USA leaders becomes “ears”
to constituency in northwest Ohio.
Families in
Mennonite Church USA learn that giving is more
blessed than receiving.
Mennonite
Church USA staff to become helping hands in hurricane-ravaged
areas.
Calling all
knitters.
Provident
bookstores in Goshen and Berne sold.
Photo release: Ohio church receives $50,000 from
JoinHands
Knitting for
a better world.
New Mountain
States Conference to help its members pursue new
ministry passion.
Peace trunk
to take steps on journey for peace throughout
Western District.
An Ohio congregation
gives space for new leadership to grow.
Mennonite
educators encouraged to be a “box of crayons”
in God’s hand.
Has church
divorced mission? Leaders gather to reunite. |
| September |
Anabaptists’
work comprise about one-fifth of latest Chicken
Soup for the Soul book.
MMA Board
Accepts Nagelvoort’s Resignation.
Resource Advocate
Coordinator appointed by Mennonite Publishing
Network.
Commentary:
Harmony.
Gulf States
Conference hit by Katrina, leaders respond with
prayer, care, vigilance.
Pennsylvania
couple in Mennonite Church USA form young lives
for 28 years.
New network
brings together congregations in secular university
settings. |
| August |
From sawdust
into cabin: How one Mennonite woman seeks transformation.
Mennonite
Church USA's new creative manager shaped by childhood
convictions.
Global Anabaptist
Mennonite Encyclopedia Online to launch
New Mennonite
Schools Council encourages efficiency, enables
vision.
Commentary:
Quiet actions around the country, part II
A war photographer becomes Mennonite prison chaplain
on death row.
Mennonite man's love of motorcycles connects with
love for the church.
Story of Haitian
congregation helps Mennonite Men sign up new donors.
Mennonite
Women USA teams up with African Women Theologians.
New editor
to head women's magazine.
Commentary:
Losing hair, keeping dignity |
| July |
!Explore gives
Mennonite young people new eyes to see God's work
in the world.
Call Wall:
Come one, come all at Charlotte 2005.
Commentary:
The "Call Wall" and the wheat, corn
and cotton harvests.
Commentary: A taste of Charlotte 2005
Mennonite
camps not just for summer anymore.
Commentary:
Camp counselors-- the unsung heroes of summer.
Hispanic Education
in Theology and Leadership program to end.
Women's ministry
welcomes new president.
Charlotte
2005 goers can't keep quiet about Jesus who won't
let the church fail.
Weary travelers
on the journey to Charlotte 2005 sing, rest and
pray at seminar.
Music ministry
grant aids churches, seminar on new hymnal supplement
Youth proved
they couldn't keep quiet throughout Charlotte
2005.
Youth dialogue
with adults.
Casting their
'gaze on God.'
Find your
voice, learn from your experiences.
Junior high
youth at Charlotte 2005 learn what Mennonite means
for themselves.
Charlotte 2005 bring children into God's larger
family. |
| June |
Congregations,
conferences use statement to help welcome "strangers".
Final provisional
conference votes to remain with MC USA permanently.
Goshen College
students practice peace and justice journalism
in Swaziland.
Bible school
students in Henderson, Neb., raise $4,800 for
Hopi Mission School.
Growing money.
Ohio church
opens its doors to local community.
Newton, Kan.,
couple's adventure helps to connect biking in
America, Argentina.
Gather 'Round
helps all ages, families build faith community
at church, home.
Racial/ethnic
education programs face funding challenge.
Commentary:
Walking the line.
Devotional
magazine redesigned.
Design as
the Spirit leads. |
| May |
Stockings
and bongos become loaves, fishes across Mennonite
Church USA.
Peace call
helps Mennonite Church USA to call for renewed
peace witness.
Draft counseling
seminar helps youth pastor in Central Plains get
perspective.
How to prepare
for a military draft
Publishing
board hears encouraging reports, addresses ongoing
challenges.
MEA offers
Charlotte 2005 session on preschool children's
issues.
MEA sponsors
Charlotte workshop that hopes to jumpstart network
of university churches.
Commentary:
Deep and Wide
I-40 corridor north of Charlotte provides church-planting
pathway.
Student-produced
daily newspaper at Charlotte 2005 becomes shoulder-tapping
tool.
Speak Up!
to provide bridge between youth and adults at
Charlotte 2005. |
| April |
Central Plains
Conference helps Mennonite Church USA to dream
for the future.
Mennonite
Church USA rooted in generosity, needs to till
soil.
Web site will
share "best practices" among pastors
and congregational leaders.
Mennonite
Women USA's expanded circle of funding expands
ministry.
Professor's
faith story draws students of all stripes at Bluffton
University.
Culture shock
turns into cultural exchange for Hesston (Kan.)
College students.
Devotional
Commentary: Blessed. |
| March |
Good givers
help stabilize Mennonite Church USA's finances,
invite it to grow.
Sidebar: Stabilized
finances help Executive Leadership develop new
initiatives.
Mennonite
pastor helps Mennonite Church USA to work with
other denominations.
Central Plains
work team help Kichwa women make wish come true.
Commentary: Two
eggs and a dollar.
Despite adversity,
Mennonite healthcare workers find hope.
Photo Release: EMU
choir present music from new hymnal supplement.
Education
Leaders Gathering makes history, casts visions
and dreams big.
Leaders inspire
educators throughout denomination.
Longtime hope
fulfilled for merger of Mennonite education councils.
Mennonite
college student responds to generosity by giving
life to God.
Bethel College
interterm participants peer over dividing wall
in Middle East.
Schmeckfest
expands to second weekend in South Dakota.
CLC discusses
new learning model to networking, worship and
skill development.
Pastor helps
Hispanic congregation in eastern Iowa return home
to Central Plains.
Gospel passion
in Hispanic church plant in Houston spreads to
Kansas congregation.
Mennonite
Women USA awards international scholarships.
JoinHands
gives grant to Austin Mennonite Church.
Gather 'Round
project adds staff. |
| February |
Anabaptist
Biblical Institute ready to open new doors for
eager students.
Mexican boy
of atheist parents meets Jesus, becomes Mennonite
pastor, leader.
Guatemalan
coordinator of IBA finds second home and spiritual
calling in Kansas.
Save the date
for April 2006 conference to celebrate Native
tribes.
On holy ground:
Hesston (Kan.) Mennonite Church pastor takes off
shoes to preach.
Junior high
students learn to "Know Jesus" better
at Hesston (Kan.) College event
Longtime church
worker keeps on the move.
Peter Wiebe
reflects on changes at Hesston College over the
decades.
Eastern District
Conference hosts Parent Cafe despite snowstorm.
Devotional
Commentary: "The two-finger thing."
Participants
in music-worship event sample new hymnal. |
| January |
Mennonite Church USA's moderator-elect nominee
brings height, depth to post.
Denomination
asks constituents to help scale mountainous healthcare
issue.
South-Central
Kansas writers create new VBS curriculum on the
Psalms.
Middle-class
youth from First Mennonite in Kansas become homeless
in Texas.
Commentary:
These are First Commandment days.
Damascus Road
antiracism program celebrates 10 years of work.
Pastoral transition shows passion, not historical
landscape, brings possible growth.
Evangelism
means more than words to Chicago area church.
Church family
provides haven of healing in storm of baby son's
death. |
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