The Oct. 29 issue of Anabaptist World included several mini reviews of recent books. Some of them are books about church life.
The Oct. 29 issue of Anabaptist World included several mini reviews of recent books. Some of them are books about church life.
Living Water Church in Borabu, Thailand, hosted the first Anabaptist gathering planned and led by Thai leaders in November.
Chester L. Wenger, his wife, Sara Jane, and three preschool daughters went to Ethiopia in 1949 with Eastern Mennonite Missions to begin mission efforts. Their efforts contributed to the founding and growth of the Meserete Kristos Church, which has become the world’s largest Anabaptist church.
Marvin Lorenzana, a minister with Mennonite Mission Network of Mennonite Church USA, has been appointed president of Eastern Mennonite Missions. The EMM Board of Directors made the announcement Oct. 19.
COVID-19 has forced many people to embrace new forms of resilience, often spurring creativity. Two Lancaster, Pa., leaders serving the refugee and immigrant communities have been doing just that: Patience Buckwalter, executive director of the Grape Leaf Empowerment Center, and Krista Martin, Eastern Mennonite Missions Kingdom Team director.
A congregational relief fund has grown to $800,000 as more than 300 U.S. Anabaptist congregations have applied for assistance to weather the financial challenges that came with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Donald R. Jacobs, a missionary educator for 20 years in East Africa, where he was the last American Mennonite bishop in Tanzania and founded a Mennonite theological college, died Feb. 11 in Leola, Pa. He was 91.
The sound of jubilant singing — “Yahweh, Yahweh” — ricocheted off the stucco walls of the Mennonite meetinghouse in Catel, Guinea-Bissau. Dressed in colorful, traditional West African attire, worshipers celebrated the growing interest in Christ-centered theology throughout the region.
