John and Ruth Moseman, along with Elam and Elizabeth Stauffer, were the first missionaries sent to Africa by the Eastern Mennonite Mission. The articles below, published in the New Era on Feb. 21 and 22, 1934, report on the sendoff from New York of the Mosemans and Mrs. Stauffer.
As the first article explains, Elam Stauffer was already in Tanganyika […]

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On June 2, 1941, Life magazine published a feature article about Sunday school at First Presbyterian Church in Lancaster.
Accompanying the article were eight photographs by famed photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Now, those photos and 19 others that Eisenstaedt took on that assignment are available for review and purchase, thanks to a project to digitize a huge number […]

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Seventy years ago, on the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938, a wave of anti-Jewish rioting in Germany and Austria ushered in the period of intense, overt oppression that led to the Nazis’ systemic murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust from 1939 to 1945.
On ”Kristallnacht,” Jews were attacked, their busineses ransacked and more than 1,000 synogogues damaged. The anniversary was marked […]

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