You’re hired!Author: Wally KroekerThe purpose of You’re hired! by Wally Kroeker is to help Christians make their faith the focus of their career. It meets this purpose by first explaining how a Christian should look for a job and then outlining what it means to serve God at the job, whatever that job may be.
The International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) met in Asuncion prior to the Mennonite World Conference Assembly, with only Uruguay and Angola representatives missing.
Anabaptism 101 Radical Anabaptism for today “Behold, most beloved reader, thus true faith or true knowledge begets love, and love begets obedience to the commandments of God…” —Menno Simons For …
Rude or direct? re July; Saddened by findings re August; New technologies could help re August; Picking up the towel re August; Elephant in the room re April, June; Open to other views? re August; Weakening the case re July; Grand claim inappropriate re July; Zero Impact re August; Stumbling blocks to witness re no month given
What’s new with Mennonite World Conference? A great deal: a new president and vice-president, a new general council and executive committee, new member churches, growing youth involvement, a new treasurer from Paraguay, a revised constitution, and four new commissions ready to work.
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 also need an awfully big cooking pot.
More than 7,500 Mennonites – including 4,200 high school youth and their sponsors – gathered in Columbus, Ohio, June 30–July 5, for Mennonite Church USA’s biennial convention, on the theme “Breathe and be filled” (John 20:21–22).
CMU builds chemistry lab; Oil-dependant lifestyle about to change; Regular churchgoers less likely to be suicidal; EFC to develop Code of Best Practice in Short-term Mission; Chinese government provides more openness and legal standing to house church Christians; German Christians “tweet” the Bible; Police raid on Russian human rights organization; New Direction Ministry creates synchro-blog; MCC Festival and Relief Sale; Word Guild awards gala, 2009; Joseph Scriven celebrated
The sound of gospel songs filled King Road MB Church, Abbotsford, B.C., June 14, for an evening of singing and learning about the songs popular in our churches in the last century. The event was sponsored by the Mennonite Historical Society of B.C.
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 childhood in Blaine Lake, Sask. Many more steps would follow, through marriage, being widowed, raising four children alone, and her work as professor and well-known writer and speaker.