Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Eastern Mennonite Missions

Jan. 2 issue

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  Photo by Lici Roth/EMM

  Peruvian villagers welcome health team

  CUSCO, Peru — Mary Dunn and her Eastern Mennonite Missions team recently took a break from clinics and lessons about nutrition and sanitation to distribute something just as important — sweets and gifts.

  Much of Dunn’s ministry involves working with a Peruvian Mennonite Church team that holds clinics and teaches in remote Andean villages. On a recent visit to Cotabambas the team treated more than 30 children, many with serious respiratory infections.
  

Oct. 31, 2011 issue

• Holy Spirit gives power for mission

  MEDAN, Indonesia — In the mountains near an active volcano, an Indonesian Mennonite had an unusually productive harvest of chili peppers last year. He used the proceeds to buy his church a van for mission trips. His pastor objected.

Aug. 1, 2011 issue

• Native of Kenya to lead EMM

  SALUNGA, Pa. — A Maryland pastor who was born and raised in Kenya will be the next president of Eastern Mennonite Missions.

May 16, 2011 issue

• EMM considers changes due to mission trends and decline in giving

  SALUNGA, Pa. — Eastern Mennonite Missions is in the midst of an organizational review that is looking ahead to changes in its administrative structures.

April 18, 2011 issue

• Meeting with Tanzania president cultivates good interfaith relations

  DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — With a Muslim president and a Christian prime minister, Tanzania’s government reflects the nation’s religious diversity.

March 14, 2011 issue

• Young leaders trained through Vietnam’s new theology institute

  HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — As Mennonites in Vietnam experience greater religious freedom, a new leadership training program has completed its first year.

March 7, 2011 issue

• Cross-cultural mission goes new direction

  NAIROBI, Kenya — Foreign missionaries are coming, which wouldn’t be unusual except that they are from Indonesia.

• Retired pastoral couple use their gifts in Kenya

  NAIROBI, Kenya — After 35 years of pastoring Mennonite churches in Pennsylvania and Virginia, Wes and Lois Boyer felt God calling them to serve overseas at the Mennonite Guest House in Nairobi.

Jan. 17, 2011 issue

• Pioneering missionary in Albania dies

  TIRANA, Albania — Paul Kropf, who pioneered church-planting work in Albania with Eastern Mennonite Missions for 17 years, died Dec. 25 of an apparent heart attack. He was 53.

Jan. 10, 2011 issue

• ‘Take nothing with you’: 4 days of following Jesus in Swaziland

  Darrel Hostetter wondered what it would be like to practice what Jesus commanded in Luke 10 when he sent out 72 followers and charged them to “take nothing with you.”

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