MWR : Articles : Jan. 12, 2004

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Articles : Jan. 12, 2004

Words of life: Don’t lose heart

People enter a new year seeking security, meaning and happiness. Fear, discontent and violence surround them. What can point the way to a better life?

For the Amish, almanacs help keep the year in order

Where can you find weather predictions, moon phases, garden signs, a list of every Amish minister and prices for brooms fashioned by none other than Blind Syl Hershberger?
Almanacs long a part of American Anabaptist culture

Before lifestyle changes took many Mennonites off the farm and into town during the 20th century, a variety of farm- and church-related almanacs were part of U.S. Anabaptist culture.
Mission workers and Toba teach one another in the Chaco

EL CERRITO, Paraguay — On a small rise in the flat Paraguayan Chaco, just across the border from Argentina, stands a little Toba church built by Korean Presbyterians.
RAD-ical disciples called to a high-voltage ministry

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Four Reaching and Discipling teams of young adults, having completed an intense three-month training, are entering seven-month outreach assignments in locations around the world, including Macau, Sweden, Mexico and North America.

Global Mission Fellowship planners identify objectives

STRASBOURG, France — Planners for the Global Mission Fellowship, established in Zimbabwe in August, took their first look at the new group’s vision Dec. 11-13.
Missionary to Peru dies

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Paul C. Friesen, 75, of North Newton, Kan., a career Mennonite Brethren missionary to Peru, died Dec. 6 as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident the previous day in Hattiesburg.

Israeli refuseniks choose peace

“Already for years I know that I am not going to join the army. I know it with as much certainty as I know that I will never kick a homeless person lying on the sidewalk, never rape a woman, and when I will have a child — never abandon it.”