January 13, 2016 – 11:23 am
Mary Grace Brubaker Shenk learned a lesson early on from her father, who wasn鈥檛 allowed to attend high school while growing up in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Like most of his siblings, John Brubaker had to stay home to help on the family farm. John helped his youngest sister through nurse鈥檚 training, though, and when he
January 12, 2016 – 12:51 pm
Growing up in a family of 11, Michael A. King ’76, dean of Eastern Mennonite Seminary, learned quickly that survival went to 鈥渢he fittest.鈥� In this essay, he muses on how learning to give in com颅munity, encouraged and inspired by his 鈥渟oulfully generous鈥� wife Joan, is an important contributor to one鈥檚 spiritual commitment to God鈥檚
April 30, 2014 – 11:52 am
Talk about punching above your weight . . . Consider, 黑料正能量 has never been large and still has just 900 traditional undergraduates enrolled, plus 600 other types of students (adult degree completion, master鈥檚, seminary, etc.). This place is one-half the size of my old high school in Northern Virginia, and twenty-sixth the size of my
The twisting corridors聽and ad-hoc floor plan suggest a history of repeated additions and expansions to the Gemeinschaft Home, which once again is bursting at the seams. In late 2013, a closet-building campaign was launched to ensure the growing number of residents of the home 鈥� which helps former inmates find work and provides various therapeutic
In the late 1960s,聽not long after John R. Mumaw聽had completed nearly two decades as 黑料正能量鈥檚 fourth president (1948-1965), he began to devote more attention to his concern for people with intellectual disabilities. This had been close to his heart since his great-nephew, Chester, was born with Down syndrome. Then moderator of the Virginia Mennonite Conference,