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2008-10-21 issue:

Menno House celebrates 50 years

by Angela Showalter and Skip Kempe with Lowell Brown

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On Sept. 19-21, Menno House in New York City celebrated its 50th anniversary. In 1957, Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions purchased a row house near Gramercy Park for Mennonite volunteers coming to New York to start urban congregations or to do alternative service to the military draft. In 1977, it became a Mennonite student center, quickly acquiring the name “Menno House.”

Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship (MMF)—a congregation that house residents helped to form in the 1980s—purchased Menno House in 1997. Today, residents include Mennonite Voluntary Service and Mennonite Central Committee volunteers, students and non-profit workers. Three guest rooms accommodate city visitors and lower floors contain a Peace and Anabaptist Library and office space for MMF.