Richard A. Showalter lived to see his dreams for the global Anabaptist church come true.
Richard A. Showalter lived to see his dreams for the global Anabaptist church come true.
LANCASTER, Pa. — In late 2020, Eastern Mennonite Missions plans to open a cross-cultural center in Lancaster City and move its global ministry headquarters there.
Shouting, singing and celebration resounded throughout the village of Nyabange, Tanzania, as water flowed into tanks from Lake Victoria, which is just to the north of the Mennonite Theological College of East Africa.
SHIRATI, Tanzania — Fifty Tanzanian Mennonite leaders, guided by Palmer Becker, a Canadian Mennonite author and teacher, studied spiritual leadership, pastoral care and Anabaptist essentials Feb. 14-16.
AKRON, Pa. — Twelve people gathered closely in a circle as Yvonne Garber uttered a Swahili phrase: Mungu Anajua. Garber then shared the translation — “God knows” — as she and her husband, Joe, elaborated about how they discerned a call to serve the Tanzania Mennonite Church.
Mennonite Church West Africa advanced its mission to establish Anabaptist churches in three nations on the Atlantic coast when it celebrated the ordination of its first credentialed leaders.
Evana Network’s next executive director foresees the group broadening its tent and continuing a conversation among Mennonites and like-minded Anabaptists about how to collaborate.
It seemed unlikely that a topic with apparently little common ground — the relationship between humanity and divinity —could serve as a starting point for Christian-Muslim dialogue.
Yet it did, with help from a contemporary story of Mennonite peacemaking.
