World News - First Mennonite Church

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ADNet Board Member Appointed Anabaptist Disabilities Network (ADNet) announces the appointment of Vyron L. Schmidt of Goshen, Indiana, to the ADNet Board of Directors.

Students Contribute to Disabilities Advocacy Two students are the recipients of $500 scholarships in the second year of the Student Associates Program of Anabaptist Disabilities Network (ADNet).

Disabilities and Deaf Ministries Partnership Agreement between Anabaptist Disabilities Network (ADNet) and Anabaptist Deaf Ministries (ABDM)

Mennonite awarded by Autism Society of Indiana ADNet Program Associate, Christine Guth, selected for the 2009 "Excellence in Family Support" award by the Autism Society of Indiana.

Student Associate Named Christy Weems, a student at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas has been named as a Student Associate by Anabaptist Disabilities Network (ADNet) for the...

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First Mennonite Church
203 E Lawrence St
PO Box 508
Middlebury, IN 46540

Phone:

(574) 825-5135

Fax: (574) 825-2569
E-mail: fmcoffice@firstmennonite.net
Visit our website: http://www.firstmennonite.
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Founded: 1904
Pastor(s):
   Linford Martin, Pastor
   Pamela Yoder, Associate Pastor, Pastoral Care

New York Times

Ravitch Sets Broad Plan on New York Fiscal Crisis Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch will unveil a plan that includes borrowing billions and imposing curbs on future spending.

Attacks on Detainee Lawyers Split Conservatives Right-leaning legal scholars have bristled at a video, produced by a group that Liz Cheney runs, that questions the loyalty of lawyers who worked for...

Bank of America Plans to End Overdraft Fees on Debit Card Purchases Customers who try to make purchases with their debit cards without enough money in their accounts will simply be declined.

Food Aid Bypasses Somalia?s Needy, U.N. Study Finds As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted to a web of corrupt contractors, Islamist militants and local U.N. staff, a...

New York Is Finally Taking Its Coffee Seriously Dozens of new cafes and coffee bars treat coffee making like an art, or at least a high form of craft.

The Anabaptist Network - Articles (UK)

Youth Work After Christendom In this extract from their new book, Jo and Nigel Pimlott take a close look at where youth work has come from and where it...

On Leaving Government This is the first chapter of: Faith and Politics after Christendom: the church as a movement for anarchy by Jonathan Bartley ?I?m leaving the House...

An Anabaptist Lent? by Vic Theissen The season of Lent is upon us once again. Growing up in a Canadian Mennonite church, I heard nothing whatsoever about Lent...

Economical with the Truth: Swearing and Lying, An Anabaptist Perspective by Alan and Eleanor Kreider Schrag Lecture II, Messiah College, 1 March 2001 We?re going to talk about swearing. But not just any kind of...

Polish Anabaptism in the 16th : a story little told by Michael I. Bochenski For a country known internationally as one of the most decidedly Catholic in the world, the multi-cultural and multi-faith state of...

Abolishing the Laity: an Anabaptist perspective by Alan Kreider Pope Celestine I was not amused. In 428 Honoratus, an influential monk, had just become bishop of Aries. Now news was arriving...

Meeko Warriors - or Is it Possible to Change the World without Alienating Everyone? by Alison Phelps As unseasonably warm sunlight streams encouragingly (or should that be alarmingly?) through the window I reflect again on the hidden challenges of...

A Jesus Army leader drawn to Anabaptism By James Stacey My first dilemma in writing this piece was simply this: what to call it. I?ve certainly been drawn to Anabaptism, but who...

An Anabaptist Perspective on the Environment by Jo Rathbone Is there an Anabaptist perspective on the environment? Well, I'm not sure that the sixteenth century Anabaptists had a policy on the...

Anabaptist Leanings of a ?Kinda? Methodist by Philip R Meadows, Cliff College, March 2006 I am a pagan convert and a theological mongrel! I was evangelized by Pentecostals, brought to faith...