April 15, 2020 This story was written in February 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic became a worldwide threat. As of April 2020, Minear Mak is still serving in her YAMEN…
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“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases” (Psalm 103:2–3, ESV). Psalm 103 is David’s expression…
Earthquake. Famine. Flooding. The headlines catch attention, and people respond with prayers and donations to emergency appeals. A few days later, the reporting stops and the event fades from memory.…
“Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it” (1 Peter 3:15, NLT). The June…
When we’re young, we’re often identified in relation to our parents (“so-and-so’s kid”). At some point, our parents become known by us (“so-and-so’s mom/dad”). Throughout our life, we take on…
It was already dark when we turned off the main road onto a bumpy track through the forest. A delegation of the Mennonite World Conference Deacons Commission was visiting brothers…
Have you ever made a decision when you were for the idea and the other person was against it? Or, been on a board when a vote went five in…
“The earth is the LORD’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it; for he has founded it on the seas, and established it…
In a region of Ukraine that thousands of Mennonites left generations ago, two dozen of today’s Mennonite leaders from across Europe gathered for three days of fellowship in October 2018.…
God’s People in Mission: An Anabaptist Perspective Stanley W. Green and Rafael Zaracho Reviewed by D. Berg What is the subject? The 10 chapters of God’s People in Mission expound…
From a boat on the Sea of Galilee, a fisherman demonstrates the ancient art of casting a circular net. Weights along the outer edge sink rapidly, pulling the web around…
“Our global value of peacemaking is expressed in the Declaration of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples,” says Mennonite World Conference general secretary César García. “How a church in South Korea or…
“And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them” (Luke 6:19). Power – this was the characteristic that made Jesus someone special; power that was…
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