by Camille Dager for Mennonite Church USA Communications and available here
The Center for Community Justice in Elkhart, Indiana, honored Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz, Mennonite Church USA denominational minister for Peace & Justice, for her work in restorative justice at an October 21 event celebrating the 45th anniversary of its Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP), the first restorative justice program of its kind in the U.S.
Irwin Larrier, executive director of the Center for Community Justice, presented Stutzman Amstutz with the VORP Founding Partner Award for her outstanding work with the Center as a recent college graduate in the 1980s and her ongoing contributions to restorative justice.
