Africa Archives | Page 19 of 23

EMM workers return to West Africa after Ebola crisis

SALUNGA, Pa. — Four and a half months after leaving West Africa because of safety concerns connected to the Ebola crisis, a team of workers

Chris Fretz | Eastern Mennonite Missions

February 16, 2015

Call to serve abroad is a ‘remarkable adventure’

CAPINGA, Mozambique — Rebecca Standen wears a headlamp to light the way and checks a pot of chima bubbling over the fire outside her tiny

Mennonite Central Committee

February 2, 2015

Peace is a calling

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. — Matthew 5:9 Just over 20 years ago, in a 100-day period, the

J Ron Byler

January 21, 2015

In Benin, economic empowerment born out of tragedy

COTONOU, Benin — It took the death of a child to create a community bank that brings more abundant life to many people in Benin.

Lynda Hollinger-Janzen | Mennonite Mission Network

January 19, 2015

Keep awake!

Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming! — Matt. 24:36-44 Last Friday, a large trailer truck carrying 2 million

John W. de Gruchy

January 9, 2015

A report from prison in Burkina Faso

Today I am in prison in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso. I walked into the Maco prison, the oldest and biggest prison in the city, with a

J Ron Byler

December 30, 2014

Benin school celebrates 30 years

Benin Bible Institute, which Mennonites played a role in starting, recently celebrated 30 years of equipping more than 1,000 church leaders in 70 denominations. The

Lynda Hollinger-Janzen, Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission | Mennonite Mission Network

December 22, 2014

Christmas with drug users

JOS, Nigeria — Margaret Ahmed’s house in Jos was a few hundred yards from a former cotton-ginning warehouse where as many as 100 Christian and

David Klassen | Mennonite Central Committee

December 8, 2014

Burkina Faso thankful as peace returns

Mennonite leaders in Burkina Faso are thanking God that peace returned quickly after violence led the West African nation’s president to resign.

On Oct. 30, protestors marched on the presidential palace and burned the parliament building. Their display of outrage blocked a vote to amend the constitution that would have allowed President Blaise Compaoré to extend his 27-year term of office.

Lynda Hollinger-Janzen | Mennonite Mission Network

December 8, 2014

‘Regulation garb’ and the gospel

In February 1959, Chester Wenger and fellow missionaries in Ethiopia — wearing business suits and neckties — met a delegation of Lancaster Mennonite Conference leaders

John E. Sharp

November 24, 2014