Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Lynda Hollinger-Janzen/Mennonite Mission Network

Feb. 6 issue

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  Hope for future trumps angst, guilt of the past

  CHICAGO — Nelson Okanya cried out to God to grant desperation to the North American Mennonite church.

  “Make us desperate to bear children of God. Give us the desperation of street children jumping into dumpsters to find something to eat,” prayed Okanya, president of Eastern Mennonite Missions, at the annual Council of International Anabaptist Ministries.

Jan. 9 issue

• Mission leader ‘evangelized’ back to church

  John Powell, who has a long history with Mennonite Mission Network and its predecessor agencies, was named to a new position, mission advocate, last summer. Powell brings courage, passion and 70-times-seven forgiveness to his ministry. He inherited some of these qualities; the rest, he said, is a gift of God’s grace.

Sept. 19, 2011 issue

• In Congo prison, food for body, spirit

  In the tropical heat of Congo, Adolphine Kabatusuila Tshilumba nourished the dream of feeding others.

June 13, 2011 issue

• Bible translation presents challenges

  ELKHART, Ind. — Two Mennonite Mission Network partners told a room full of American Mennonite leaders that one of the most important challenges of mission work is communicating God’s Word in people’s “heart language.”

July 12, 2010 issue

• E-mails lead to church plant

  MARANHÃO, Brazil — A routine response to Paulo Roberto Filipe Silva’s e-mail helped create the newest Mennonite church in northeastern Brazil.

April 5, 2010 issue

• Bible study expands in Argentina

  ESPINILLO, Argentina — Expectant students gathered around open Bibles on March 20 when a new branch of the Instituto Bíblico Toba (Toba Bible Institute) began classes in Argentina’s Chaco Province.

June 22, 2009 issue

• Burkina Faso churches respond to fire

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

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.

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