The Mennonite family – ten children – is stuffed into a boxy 1930 Chrysler, the younger ones standing or sitting on laps. Southern Alberta’s chinook wind sandpapers the car’s windows …
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The year was 1945. World War II had ended just months before. Clara was busy packing and getting ready for a journey into the unknown, the Belgian Congo. She and …
The students of Instituto Biblico Asuncion (IBA) were on their mid-term break, but July offered little respite to the school’s director, Martin Hartwig Eitzen.
To be honest, my motivation for going to Paraguay had more to do with visiting the land of my husband’s birth than attending the Mennonite World Conference. I hasten to …
“Are you a Mennonite?” a policeman asked as Ditrich Pana approached the huge white church where 5,800 Anabaptists from around the world had gathered.
Five women from India who attended Assembly 15….
The dimly lit booth tucked into a balcony at the Centro Familiar de Adoración doesn’t hold much: a table and chairs, a pair of microphones, a bottle of water, a …
Experiencing the variety of Paraguay’s Mennonites proved instructive for visitors and valuable for Paraguayans too.
Lessons from a long ride; Delightful, but difficult too; This is what it means; Nothing is more damaging; Listen to me carefully; Revival in Cuba; Should we meet again?
For many people, singing together was one of their Assembly 15 highlights. For the man who led that singing, it was the highlight of his life.
When Adelheid Thiessen agreed to head the mammoth task of preparing ten meals for 5,800-plus Assembly 15 participants, she knew the menu would have to be simple. She knew she’d …
When Katie Funk Wiebe stepped off the train to attend Mennonite Brethren Bible College in 1945, it was but the next step in a journey of discovery begun with her …
I’ve learned that often when I think I’m helping, I’m actually interfering. That’s what happened one day in Colombia, South America. During the first year my husband, Harold, and I …
Last summer, we were Gramma and Grampa B at Maple Springs Bible Camp, a Canadian Sunday School Mission camp on the western shore of Okanagan Lake, B.C.