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 …
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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.
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An animated effort to reach the community
On June 6, Cedar Park Church in Delta, B.C., staged its second annual Breath of Life Animation Festival, using cartooning and claymation workshops to intrigue both kids and their parents. …
n September 2008, Neil Klassen travelled with his family to visit Friesland, the Paraguayan Mennonite colony where his grandfather settled in 1937. While there, the Toronto-based artist (www.neilklassen.com) was inspired …
When I was about nine years old, growing up in Michigan, my dad took me to see a theatrical re-issue of Walt Disney’s classic 1940 film Pinocchio. I already knew …
“Sharing meals with family”, “The power of the oatcake”, “Attracting others to Christ”, “Eating round the table”, “Bringing food and faith together”
Two years ago, my son Joel did a Grade 8 project on the environmental impact of our food industry. Our supper conversations suddenly revolved around issues like food packaging, and …
“When the killer of your family lives across the street” Imagine if the killer of your spouse and children lived across the street from you. You see him every day, …
They kept ringing the door bell, insistently. And I was having such a nice sleep. (Something that would now elude me for months.) It was 5:45 a.m., October 6, 2008.