Latin America

Planting opportunity, rebuilding lives

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Breezes flutter the sheer fabric hanging in the doorway of Gladys Joseph’s new home in Cabaret, 24 miles outside Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. There’s room in the yard for her children to play. And, for the first time since she was sent to Haiti’s capital city as a child, she’s able to have a garden — corn, beans, manioc and okra.

Five years after a devastating earthquake tore across Port-au-Prince . . .

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January 12, 2015

Anabaptism across borders

Listening to students at SEMILLA — a multisite seminary affiliated with 10 Anabaptist conferences in Central America and Mexico — Leonor and Jerry Kennell heard story after story of personal transformation and enthusiasm for Christian faith from an Anabaptist perspective.

The Kennells, of Albuquer­que, N.M., are North American ambassadors for SEMILLA, a role they took on this year. They returned Nov. 30 from a three-week trip through five countries, where they met with eight groups of students.

They asked students about their experience with SEMILLA — good and bad — as well as their hopes and dreams for the school.

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December 29, 2014

Faith shines amid Central America’s violence, poverty

Churches in Honduras and Guatemala are growing and thriving even in challenging contexts of violence and poverty, Eastern Mennonite Missions leaders observed Sept. 20-27.

At Project MAMA, a community development and education program in Honduras, one of the workers had been attacked by several gang members.

Yet as the worker interacted with EMM leaders, she began crying and lamenting that these gang members are now suffering in prison.

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December 8, 2014
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