Nearly 25 years ago, in the Ministry Inquiry Program at Goshen College, I met with a pastor as a potential intern. The first thing he said was: “The way we do church in North America doesn’t work.”
Jacob A. Schowalter, a Kansas Mennonite farmer, spent little on his own comforts but gave generously to charitable causes. Few could guess by his simple way of life that he was a man of significant means.