AMBS News and Stories

Frederick Speckeen, PhD (at left), and Leonard Wiebe, MST (at right), are the 2021 recipients of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary’s Alumni Ministry and Service Recognition. (Speckeen: photo provided / Wiebe: credit: Annette Brill Bergstresser)

Frederick J. Speckeen, PhD, of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, and Leonard Wiebe, MST, of Goshen, Indiana, are the 2021 recipients of AMBS’s Alumni Ministry and Service Recognition.

Sherri Martin-Carman in 2010, during her years on staff at AMBS as Admissions Counselor and Development Associate (2007–12). (AMBS photo)

Sherri Martin-Carman (MDiv 1998) of Elmira, Ontario, died Oct. 30. She served AMBS as a board member and as an Admissions Counselor and Development Associate.

Jamie Pitts, PhD (at right), Director of the Institute of Mennonite Studies, converses with Alle Hoekema, PhD (on screen), as part of presenting Hoekema’s new book, Hardship, Resistance, Collaboration: Essays on Dutch Mennonites during World War II and It

The new book — Hardship, Resistance, Collaboration: Essays on Dutch Mennonites during World War II and Its Aftermath — tells stories of Dutch Mennonites' responses to German occupation in the 1940s.

Susannah Larry, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at AMBS, is author of Leaving Silence: Sexualized Violence, the Bible and Standing with Survivors. (Credit: Annette Brill Bergstresser)

Leaving silence

November 16, 2021

AMBS professor’s book reclaims the Bible as a source of hope and healing for survivors of sexualized violence.

Ed and Gay Kauffman of Elkhart, Indiana, are in their fourth year as Volunteer Coordinators at AMBS. They attend Hively Avenue Mennonite Church in Elkhart. (Credit: Jason Bryant)

Striking gold at Poustinia

November 10, 2021

Volunteer Coordinator Ed Kauffman makes an unexpected discovery.

Debbie Bledsoe (third from right) of Raleigh, North Carolina, an AMBS Master of Divinity student who is co-chair of the AMBS Garden Committee, speaks during a Rooted and Grounded Conference workshop entitled, “Community Gardens as a Place of Encounter and

Healing and restoring our broken connections to the land — as individuals and communities — was the focus of the fifth Rooted and Grounded Conference on Land and Christian Discipleship, held Oct. 14–16 at AMBS.

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