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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.

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

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.

Chris Fretz | Eastern Mennonite Missions

December 8, 2014

Trinidad and Tobago church marks 40th anniversary

The Mennonite Church of Trinidad and Tobago marked its 40th anniversary Oct. 16-19 with celebrations at four of its five congregations. The celebration was a

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

November 24, 2014

EMM leaders learn from Central American churches

EMM President Nelson Okanya and EMM Board Chair Brian Martin share a laugh together while listening to a translation of an Amor Viviente worship service.

Mennonite World Review staff

November 20, 2014

Haiti doesn’t need another occupation

The name Haiti conjures images of earthquake damage, people struggling to survive or memories of a service trip to help build houses or bring medical care.

Charissa Zehr | Vanessa Hershberger

October 27, 2014

Causes of immigration

The influx of children from Central America to the U.S. has dropped from the news, but the problem has not vanished. Nor was there ever

Rachel Stella

October 27, 2014

‘Brother, you are forgiven’

LA CEIBA, Honduras — After decades of misunderstanding and little collaboration, the two largest Anabaptist groups in Honduras have publicly reconciled. In August 2013, leaders

Chris Fretz | Eastern Mennonite Missions

October 20, 2014

Church planters make friends, follow the Spirit

WICHITA, Kan. — Because Byron and Hilda Pellecer “followed the bubbles” of the Holy Spirit, Imelda Samaniego worships on her front lawn.

On Tuesday evenings she joins a small group of adults and children in an outdoor Bible study the Pellecers lead.

Her neighbors, Juanita and Pascual, invited her. The couple . . .

Laurie Oswald Robinson | For Mennonite World Review

September 29, 2014

Compassion for migrants

In a year when the flow of Central American families to the U.S. border has made headlines, Mennonite Central Committee is responding broadly. MCC is

Marla Pierson Lester | Mennonite Central Committee

September 29, 2014

Colombians support Korean CO

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — For Jenny Neme, director of Colombian Mennonite organization Justapaz (Just Peace), recent support for South Korean conscientious objector San-Ming Lee was a natural occurrence.

It sprung, she said, from an attempt to “seek solidarity and mutual support, based in the prophetic role of the churches to engage in political advocacy.”

Anna Vogt | Justapaz

August 18, 2014