WINNIPEG, Man. — As a pastor of a Mennonite Brethren church in Japan, Yoshio Fujii had limited knowledge of the church’s Anabaptist roots. To learn
John Stiles parked his one-man caravan at Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church in late July. It had previously occupied a corner of a parking lot 25 miles away near Inman at Hoffnungsau Mennonite Church, a link in an Anabaptist oasis chain stretching across the Great Plains.