Area man Abe Friesen is under the impression that the specific type of Mennonites that he is familiar with, those who speak Low German, wear suspenders, forbid dancing and drinking, and complain about ...

Devout Mennonite and local tulip farmer Aldert Alderliesten decided he would commemorate 500 years of Anabaptism by setting the Guinness World Record for most successive baptisms. “The previous record ...

Job was a God-fearing man who was blessed with great prosperity. He had herds of animals in numbers that no one else could match. Then one day, tragedy struck, leaving ...

It’s a dream that one Midstate woman has had for more than a decade — to open a thrift store to benefit the Mennonite Central ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Jordan Marsh scored points to lead the North Carolina Asheville men's basketball team to a 72-65 win over ...

Eastern Mennonite University senior Meredith Lehman, from Dover, Ohio, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Lehman was one of only 32 students in the U.S. chosen from ...

Last week we noted the beginning of the Mennonite Church. How did we get the name Mennonite? The church and state unions of the 1500s had little toleration for religious dissent. Consequently, the ...

Some 2,700 investors in a Lancaster-based ATM network are looking at combined potential losses of more than half a billion ...

A man with Lancaster County connections was killed ... His obituary said he was an active member of Zion Mennonite Chapel in Reinholds in West Cocalico Township. His funeral is scheduled to ...

"He showed his love of God and his fellow man through his actions. His boys were always with him ... Martin, a devoted outdoorsman, was known for his love of trapping, hunting, and farm life. A ...