Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Mission and church planting

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

• Building in Spain is a first for Protestants

  With the help of a North American grant, an Anabaptist congregation in Burgos, Spain, is constructing a new building, a rare move for a Prot­estant church there.

Nov. 14, 2011 issue

• Hope for orphans in Ukraine

  In much of Ukraine, hopelessness among adults has darkened the future of its youth.

Aug. 1, 2011 issue

• Young leaders gather to focus on mission, God’s call

  MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa. — Leonard Dow, pastor of Oxford Circle Mennonite Church in Philadelphia, recently challenged a group of young church leaders interested in mission to lead people along the Anabaptist path.

May 16, 2011 issue

• Somali peace teacher surrendered life to Jesus

  MILWAUKEE — Twice before, Ahmed Ali Haile had approached death’s door. A bout of cerebral malaria almost felled him as a teenager. Years later, a rocket mortar shattered his leg. He lived to father a third child and continue peacemaking work.

April 11, 2011 issue

• Lancaster adds churches that looked for a home

  LANCASTER, Pa. — Welcoming two churches into Lancaster Mennonite Conference on March 19 reflected the conference’s developing “2020 Vision” — and the surprises it might bring.

Dec. 13, 2010 issue

• Latin American peacemakers

  Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — Representatives of historic peace churches in Latin America gathered Nov. 27-Dec. 2 and produced a paper outlining their shared theological understandings on peace.

Oct. 4, 2010 issue

• End of an era

  Were you impressed as I was? The Sept. 20 edition of MWR reports the deaths of four longtime missionaries: Ramoth Burkhalter, 42 years of service in India; Sophia Brown, 40 years in Taiwan; Nancy Conrad, 16 years in India and three years in Ethiopia, plus years of U.S. service programs; and Marie Shenk, seven years in Israel and Palestine plus 14 years at Eastern Mennonite University, plus years alternating between EMU and the Middle East.

Aug. 9, 2010 issue

• Fair exchange for blueberries

  It can sometimes seem cliché to hear participants in service and mission trips report that they received more than they gave.

Aug. 2, 2010 issue

• Longtime India missionary dies at 92

  BERNE, Ind. — Olga Claassen’s life of service to God took her to India and Indiana, and a few other places besides.

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