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Can a Book of Stories Bring Peace to Palestine and Israel?

Can a Book of Stories Bring Peace to Palestine and Israel? Western District Conference (MC USA) Israel-Palestine Task Force invites you to join us for a book discussion group on […]

Buhler Mennonite Church Service Project

50,000 MEALS TO BE PACKAGED! Your help is needed to help package 50,000 meals in one day. Each meal will be used to address local food security by donation to local […]

Bluffton University Student Shares his Gaza Story

Bluffton University Student Shares his Gaza Story – On the anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attacks, Tareq Abuhalima, who is completing a master’s in business administration at Bluffton, University, shared […]

WDC November Prayer Requests

-Nov 3 – Pray for WDC congregations and members during this election week in the United States, as they seek to live faithfully and bear witness to the way of […]

Changes You Can Get Excited About

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is popularly quoted as saying “There is nothing permanent except change.” Too often we resist change, we wish for the good old days and long for the […]

2025 KNOW JESUS – Registration Open!

The 2025 KNOW JESUS youth conference, promoted by the WDC Resource Commission, will be February 22-23 at Hesston College. This year’s theme is “Who am I? Jesus Knows!” The event will feature input from Derek […]

Community Hymn Sing!

Sing along…..All are invited to attend an hour long Community Hymn Sing led by Dr. William Eash, Professor Emeritus of Music, Bethel College. This event will be held at Eden […]

Everence Resources for WDC Congregations

Everence resources for WDC congregations: Check out the sharing fund grants that your congregations can access through the Everence Stewardship Partners Program. This includes a variety of grants, scholarships and awards such […]

Investing in Transition

*Pictured: Sandra Montes-Martinez, Texas-based Associate Conference Minister leads a small group study session with Hispanic pastors and church planters. This past spring, we were excited to learn that the Schowalter […]

New Digital Library Resources!

Live at a distance? Wish you could read larger print? Want a good audiobook that will help you grow in faith? Wish you could access the library from your phone? […]

Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty Conference

The 2024 Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty conference will be held Saturday November 16th from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m at KU Memorial Union, Big 12 Room, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd. in […]

News Release for Nurturing Children Initiative

News Release for Nurturing Children Initiative Western District Conference of Mennonite Church USA Contact: Kathy Neufeld Dunn, Associate Conference Minister 316-283-6300, kathynd@mennowdc.org October 8, 2024 Western District Conference of Mennonite Church […]

WDC Staff Position Opening

Staff position opening: Western District Conference seeks a fulltime Hispanic Transitional Ministry Resourcing Facilitator for a two-year project beginning February 1, 2025, to resource Hispanic congregations in WDC for pastoral […]

Listen (or Not)!

Jesus said many times over, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.” As a trained mediator and on conference ministry staff, I think I’m a pretty decent listener much […]

Mennonite Mission Network Job Opening

Mennonite Mission Network (MMN) Job Opening – Regional Director of North America (Longer-Term Service) (Full time – Hybrid or In-Office in Elkhart, Indiana or Newton, Kansas, Remote) The Regional Director […]

Events on the Conflict in Israel-Palestine

The WDC Israel Palestine Task Force promotes two upcoming events associated with the October 7th anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. The presenter, Tareq Abuhalima, is a graduate student […]

Tabor Mennonite Church Annual Chicken BBQ

Tabor Church Mennonite Men will be hosting its annual Chicken BBQ on November 7, from 5-7 p.m., Dine in or To-Go meals. Donations received will go to the Tabor Church […]

Sharing God’s Goodness

Recently I joined a group of church leaders at an out-of-town training conference, and one evening we went out for supper and then stopped for dessert at a Dairy Queen. […]

Hope MC Annual Craft Bazaar and Peppernut Sale

Join Hope Mennonite Church for their annual Craft Bazaar and Peppernut Sale on Saturday, November 9, 2024 from 9:00am-2:00pm. This will take place at the church building at 868 N. Maize Road, Wichita, KS. […]

Witnessing the Faithful Givers

The Widow’s Offering Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in […]