Vlad Makhovskiy, a volunteer with MCC partner Zaporizhzhia Baptist Union, has helped more than 150 people escape from eastern Ukraine. He helps deliver food and blankets to people living in the conflict areas. (MCC photo)
When war broke out in eastern Ukraine, Vlad Makhovskiy decided he could not just sit at home and watch what was happening. He would help. What he did not know was that this choice would eventually lead to his kidnapping.
Geralde Reesor-Grooters and her son Kenrik Reesor are exploring ideas for how the church can be more supportive of autistic individuals and their families. (Photo courtesy of Geralde Reesor-Grooters)
How can the church be more autism-friendly? This is the question that has kept me thinking for some time. In my 19-year “career” as the mother of an autistic son, I have seen the many challenges autistic people face, in society at large but also in specific settings such as school and church.
Matthew Pauls
Rachel Krause
Jobb Arnold
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) announced three new faculty appointments.
Rachel Krause and Matthew Pauls will join CMU’s main campus faculty as assistant professor of biology and assistant professor of music, respectively. Jobb Arnold will join the faculty of Menno Simons College (MSC), a college of CMU, as assistant professor of conflict resolution studies.
Jennifer Ball
Maisie Sum
Conrad Grebel University College announced the hiring of Jennifer Ball as Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and Maisie Sum as Assistant Professor of Music, both in tenure track positions commencing July 1, 2015.
With some extra manpower, the tractor pulls a wagon full of relief supplies up a gravel hill in the Okhaldhunga district of Nepal. Through MCC’s partner, Group of Helping Hands, 300 families received enough food for three weeks, shelter materials, blankets, soap and cooking supplies. (MCC photo/Durga Sunchiuri)
Burnamay Khatri, 28, mother of three children, received food from MCC through one of its local partners, Group of Helping Hands, in Okhaldhunga district, Nepal. Khatri's home was destroyed after the earthquake. (MCC photo/Durga Sunchiuri)
After a truck carried MCC supplies as far as it would go, Ragani villagers from Okhaldhunga district carried them home, over steep and rugged terrain. (MCC Photo/Durga Sunchiuri)
Anita Lama, 71, (right), and her family received food and sleeping mats from MCC through one of its Nepal partners, Rural Institution for Community Development. Because the earthquake destroyed two of the family’s houses, they have been living under tarps. Before they received sleeping mats, they were sleeping on a plastic sheet on the ground. (MCC photo/Binod Deshar)
Using tractors and people power to haul supplies where trucks could not go, Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) partner organizations finished an initial distribution of emergency supplies to Nepal earthquake survivors on Tuesday, May 12—the same day a second major earthquake rattled the country.
Jono Cullar gave the valedictorian speech at Conrad Grebel University College’s 2015 convocation. (Conrad Grebel University College photo)
Alvis Pettker represented the graduate classes in Peace and Conflict Studies and Theological Studies at Grebel’s 2015 convocation. (Conrad Grebel University College photo)
“Convocation is a time to celebrate!” With this announcement, President Susan Schultz Huxman welcomed a record number of guests sharing the day with 165 graduating students. The 2015 Conrad Grebel convocation ceremony shifted to a larger venue this year to accommodate all the friends and family members of graduating students.
Joseph Kiranto gave the valedictory address at CMU’s 2015 graduation. (CMU photo)
At CMU’s graduation service on April 26, 2015, Cheryl Pauls (centre), president of CMU, awarded President’s Medals to Rebecca Klassen-Wiebe (BMus, Concentration: Performance – Collaborative Piano) and Mike Wiebe (BA, Four-Year, Communications and Media). (CMU photo)
When Joseph Kiranto moved from Kenya to study at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), he wasn’t sure what he wanted to major in. Each class he attended piqued his interest.
Katrina Labun is an MCC SALT participant serving in Kathmandu, Nepal, as the communications and storytelling assistant for MCC Nepal. (MCC photo)
MCC SALT volunteer Katrina Labun visits a peer support group for people living with HIV, a program coordinated by MCC partner Sakriya Sewa Samaj. (MCC photo courtesy of Katrina Labun)
Katrina Labun is an MCC SALT participant serving in Kathmandu, Nepal. She shares about her experience following the April 25, 2015, earthquake.
Cover of the memorial service bulletin
The church lost a voice for humour and faith with the passing of Joel Kauffmann, of Goshen, Ind., who died May 8, 2015.
“Joel had an uncanny ability and gift to communicate simply and clearly deep theological truths and social realities,” said J. Ron Byler, executive director of Mennonite Central Committee U.S., and a friend and colleague of Kauffmann.
Cal Redekop (right), co-founder of Mennonite Central Committee's alternative service organization Pax, accepts the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence Community Service Award from James Madison University Provost Jerry Benson on behalf of MCC and Pax. (Photo by Ervie Glick)
In 1951, Jay “Junior” Lehman, then a 21-year-old farm boy from Ohio, sailed by freighter to Antwerp, Belgium. He was among the first wave of conscientious objectors to participate in a new alternative service program called Pax. Reaching their eventual destination in Germany, Lehman and about 20 draft-age men labored to turn Nazi poison-gas bunkers into housing for World War II refugees.
