Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Lynda Hollinger-Janzen/Mennonite Mission Network

June 22, 2009 issue

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  Photo by Siaka Traore/MMN

  Burkina Faso churches respond to fire

  KANGALA, Burkina Faso —Mennonites are responding to the devastation caused by lightning-induced fires in three villages.

  Five days after the May 21 storm, leaders of Eglise Evangélique Mennonite du Burkina Faso (Evangelical Mennonite Church of Burkina Faso) visited communities that had lost homes, food supplies and their means of transportation — bicycles and motorcycles.

April 13, 2009 issue

• Senegal group has end, beginning

  GOSHEN, Ind. — Friends of the Wolof celebrated an ending and a beginning Jan. 31. At the time of their annual banquet held at Silverwood Mennonite Church, there were no North American FOW workers in Senegal for the first time in a decade.

March 30, 2009 issue

• Praising God in their mother tongue

  ORODARA, Burkina Faso — Eight workshop participants eyed each other self-consciously and shifted uneasily on metal chairs in the recording studio.

March 9, 2009 issue

• Burkina Faso church claims duty to teach its own pastors

  ORODARA, Burkina Faso — During a lull in his Basic Biblical Training studies, Hamidou Traoré looked out through the window of the radio recording studio.

Feb. 23, 2009 issue

• MWC to unite indigenous people of North and South America

  ELKHART, Ind. — Nearly 30 Mennonites living and ministering in indigenous contexts in the United States and Canada are preparing for a “glimpse of heaven.”

Feb. 9, 2009 issue

• Mediation is a calling on large, small scales

  OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Without conflict, there is no progress, Siaka Traoré told a group of West African church leaders and expatriate missionaries attending the Institut Missiologique du Sahel, an interdenominational mission training school.

Sept. 15, 2008 issue

• Youth thrive in ‘post-Christian’ Spain

  BURGOS, Spain — A vibrant youth group such as that of Comunidad Evangélica Menonita de Burgos (Burgos Evangelical Mennonite Community) is rare in post-Christian Europe.

Feb. 11, 2008 issue

• Africa worker urges relations with Muslims at home

  GOSHEN, Ind. — When 120 people gathered Jan. 19 to get a taste of what God is doing in Senegal, they also received a mission imperative to cultivate friendships with their Muslim neighbors close to home.

Dec. 17, 2007 issue

• Workers dismantle walls, build God’s household

  PHILIPSTOWN, South Africa — Sunlight streamed through gaping holes in the plastered bricks of Grace Community Church, haloing a black man with a wheelbarrow and a white woman with a shovel cleaning up debris from dismantled walls.

Dec. 3, 2007 issue

• Bolivian day-care center turns tears into laughter

  SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — Through Samuelito Day Care Center, love and laughter touch the lives of many children born into desperate circumstances.

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