Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Meserete Kristos Church

Jan. 10, 2011 issue

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  Ethiopians seek faster growth

  DEBRE ZEIT, Ethiopia — Most churches would rejoice at growth of 37 percent, but Ethiopian Anabaptists didn’t.

  When members of the Meserete Kristos Church heard the statistic at their general assembly last fall, “it provoked general concern,” said Carl E. Hansen, a Mennonite mission worker in Ethiopia.

Feb. 22, 2010 issue

• Ethiopia hosts mission training

  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — So many languages were spoken among participants at the World Missions Institute that worship in a common language was impossible.

Jan. 4, 2010 issue

• Ethiopian church works to end vendetta violence

  MEHAL MEDA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian Mennonites are working to break a deadly tradition of vengeance and to build a culture of reconciliation through faith in Christ.

March 30, 2009 issue

• Voice for the world’s unheard

  Tigist Tesfaye Gelagle, a 25-year-old Ethiopian Mennonite, has a keen interest in people outside her culture and in interfaith bridge building.

Aug. 20, 2007 issue

• Ethiopian college president returns to Anabaptist church

  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — When the search committee of Meserete Kristos College invited Negash Kebede to become the school’s next president in March, he couldn’t have been more surprised.

June 18, 2007 issue

• Ethiopians build headquarters

  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Meserete Kristos Church leaders gathered April 28 to break ground for a new national church headquarters and office building.

Nov. 13, 2006 issue

• MKC makes decisions on polygamy, women in leadership

  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The Meserete Kristos Church General Assembly decided Oct. 6-7 that polygamous converts need not divorce multiple wives and that women can serve in church leadership roles.

Oct. 16, 2006 issue

• Singing reduces AIDS stigma

  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — In a country with one of the world’s largest HIV-positive populations, a choir is helping to reduce stigma and discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS.

Sept. 25, 2006 issue

• Ethiopians see bright future

  FRESNO, Calif. — A persecuted church has lived to envision a $16 million college campus and bring that dream to Fresno Pacific University.

May 29, 2006 issue

• Ethiopians seek help to rebuild after arson

  KEMISE, Ethiopia — A Mese­rete Kristos Church congregation with 250 members is worshiping under a tarp after an arson fire destroyed the church building March 19.

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