Helga Dueck and the School for the Deaf in Filadelfia, Paraguay Helga Dueck had no idea, when she started out for the Mennonite World Conference
Since the first exploration in 1921, Paraguay has become a kind of city of refuge for Mennonites. In 2008, the entire multiethnic Mennonite population, including the indigenous and Paraguayan Latinos, was around 60,000 …
The image in the Honduras newspaper La Prensa was haunting: a man in a flooded street in one of Honduras’ poorer neighborhoods holds his lifeless toddler against his chest. The child was one of 29 people killed by flooding and mud slides after Tropical Depression 16 parked itself over Honduras for almost a week last October …
The road map of faith is a thing of our own making; it is our response to the gift of the leading of the Holy Spirit. This map can guide us past the next horizon and around the next corner of challenge to a new discovery of God’s presence and purpose …
During the 2007 discussion of a plan to provide basic health care for all Mennonite Church USA pastors, executive director Jim Schrag compared the efforts that would follow to a four-lap race …
They say we’re in uncharted waters with this financial crisis, and in some ways that seems to be the case. But families for countless generations have weathered hard times, often growing stronger in the face of external threats …
Pastor J.P. Masih’s has come to the Asian Mennonite Community Church in Aurora, Ill. “Our congregation is very small,” J.P. says—so small they can’t afford to pay for pastoral health insurance …
Scattered throughout the letters of Paul are references to a collection he initiated for distressed believers in Jerusalem. In 2 Corinthians 8–9 Paul appeals to the Corinthians and other Gentile churches to respond to the material needs of their fellow believers in Jerusalem …
