Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Lynda Hollinger-Janzen/Mennonite Mission Network

July 12 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 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.

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.

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