| Dannie of Cedar Cliffs | View shopping basket |
| by Christmas Carol Kauffman |
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| The character qualities and Christian virtues depicted in this
life story are as interesting as fiction, but more refreshing because
the story is true. The life story of Daniel Martin and his companion,
Savilla. | |
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| Robert and Myrtle Unruh: A Legacy of Christian Service and good Will in Paraguay (1951-1983) | View shopping basket |
| by Gerhard Ratzlaff and Philip Roth |
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| Originally written in German, printed and published in Paraguay, South America in 2007, This English version, translated by Erwin Boschmann, has expanded text and pictures. A major economic metamorphosis happened in the Paraguayan Chaco beginning in the 1960's. It followed thirty years of hardship and little progress for Mennonite immigrants from Canada and Mennonite refugees from Russia. The effort to settle an indigenous population greater than the Mennonite population in the succeeding thirty years makes this a curious event in world history. In 1951 William T. Snyder, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Associate Executive Secretary, recruited a Mennonite couple graduating that year from Bethel College in Kansas, to manage a joint venture experimental farm in Fernheim Colony, Paraguay. It almost didn't work out. The Unruhs tried to disconnect from MCC after their first five year term expired, the working environment and living conditions so difficult; the Chaco was known as a 'Green Hell.' But they were moved to return and spent their working lives in the Chaco, 32 years altogether until illness intervened, along the way endearing themselves to the Mennonite settlers and to the native Indians. Given the human yearning for precise explanations and an authoritative point of origin, the reader is taken by surprise encountering restraint, gentleness and straightforward reasoning in this gradual and complex evolutionary development. Leadership spontaneously rises to the occasion in a prosaic manner; scrupulously methodical, patient, nonassertive and nonjudgmental. This self-effacing style gave few persons in North America a clue-as it was happening-that the depth of the Unruh's imprint on Mennonite ethnicity in Paraguay might be significant or lasting. Copyright 2009 Philip Roth | |
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| A Life Displaced: A Mennonite Woman's Flight from War-Torn Poland | View shopping basket |
| by Edna Schroeder Thiessen & Angela Showalter |
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| A piece of Mennonite history that has received little attention
is the story of the Mennonites in Prussia and Poland during World War
II who failed to escape the advancing Russians. Not only did these
people see their world dramatically altered by war, but many also faced
rape, severe hunger, separation from loved ones, forced labor camps,
constant threat of death, and loss of identity in a society that no
longer tolerated religious difference. Through dramatic stories and
photographs, Edna Shcroeder Thiessen shares with us her wartime
experiences during that turbulent time. copyright 2000. | |
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| The Carol of Christmas: The Life Story of Christmas Carol Kauffman | View shopping basket |
| by Marcia Kauffman Clark |
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| The biography of the author, Christmas Carol Kauffman, written by her daughter. Includes a never before published short story. Christmas Carol Kauffman was born 25 December 1901 in Elkhart, IN, the second of four daughters of Abraham R. and Selena Bell (Wade) Miller. She graduated from Elkhart High School and attended Goshen College and Hesston College. She began writing at Hesson and for years she wrote one short story every month for a weekly youth magazine published by Herald Press, completing more than 100 stories. This is a story of Christmas Carol Kauffman's remarkable life as researched and reassembled after sorting through mountains of correspondence and relived through countless hours of interviews conducted by the author. This book leads the reader through crushing trials and bitter disappointments to the quiet peace and comfort Carol always found, never failing, in her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Copyright 2008 | |
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| Marpeck: A Life of Dissent and Conformity | View shopping basket |
| by Walter Klaassen and William Klassen |
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hardcover, 432 pages, $32.95
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| Walter Klaassen and William Klassen have deeply mined Markpeck's writing and dialogue with other Reformation leaders. They place his life, work and theology in the context of his violent, changing times. This thorough biography shows how Markpeck, perhaps more than any other early Anabaptist figure, helped lay the theoretical and practical foundations of the believers church. Copyright 2008 Herald Press | |
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| Search to Belong | View shopping basket |
| by Christmas Carol Kauffman |
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| When little David Grant came to live in their home, the Aaron Loomases didn't know who he really was, or where his real parents were. Neither did Melvin Kolb or the workers at the Millersville Children's Home, where David spent the first three years of his life. This biographical narrative by Christmas Carol Kauffman will let its readers feel the emotions of David Grant as he grows into manhood. They will realize what it means for a child not to know who he really is; what it is like to face the possibility of being illegitimate; how difficult it is to be convinced that his foster parents really care, even when they are the kindest people in the world. Besides David, there are osme other people worth meeting; Sister Lora, first to each David the meaning of love and acceptance; Miss Ranger, the teacher who understands; and --somewhere--a lonely mother who wonders what has happened to her baby boy. Reprinted 2008 A. B. Publishing | |
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| Annie Funk: Lived to Serve, Dared to Sacrifice | View shopping basket |
| by Sharon Yoder |
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illustrated by Jolynn Schumucker paperback, 54 pages, $5.95
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| As a young Mennonite woman, Annie Funk had a strong desire to serve God wherever He would call her. This fully-illustrated children's story tells the story of her life and the many ways she served God during her short life. Annie funk is a role model of Christian service and sacrifice that we hope many children learn to follow. Copyright 2008 Faith Builders Resource Group | |
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| Rosanna of the Amish | View shopping basket |
| by Joseph W. Yoder |
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Rosanna of the Amish illustrated by Joy Dunn Keenan paperback, 320 pages, $9.95
This centennial edition of Rosanna of the Amish, now in its
37th printing with over 375,000 in print, has new art and illustrations by Joy Dunn Keenan. Copyright 1995 Herald Press
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Rosanna of the Amish: The Restored Text paperback, 350 pages, $15.95
Joeseph W. Yoder's thrilling narrative of an Irish Catholic baby girl brought up by an Amish woman, represents the beginnings of Mennonite literature in America. In this new edition, the original 1940 text is restored and the classic book is placed in its cultural and historical contest with a critical introduction by Julia Spicher Kasdorf. Copyright 2008 Herald Press
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| The thrilling narrative of Rosanna McGonegal Yoder, the Irish
Catholic baby girl who lived with an Amish woman, Elizabeth Yoder. All the
episodes of Rosanna of the Amish are based on fact. Joseph W. Yoder
gives an honest, sympathetic, straightforward account of the religious, social,
and economic customs and traditions of the Amish. | |
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| Remember Us: Letters from Stalin's Gulag (1930-37) | View shopping basket |
| by Ruth Derksen-Siemens |
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| Remember Us presents 131 letters from one family who were prisoners in the Gulag. The book contains actual letters from the imprisoned family (children and parents), as well as narrative, which guides the reader. Copyright 2008 Pandora Press | |
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| The Silence Echoes: Memoirs of Trauma and Tears | View shopping basket |
| by Sarah Dyck |
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| Mennonites of Dutch/German ancestry began emigrating from Prussia and
settling in the Ukraine in 1789, following invitations and guarantees granted
by Catherine II of Russia. One hundred years later, the Mennonites in Russia
had prospered. They now numbered some 70,000 persons living in progressive
settlements, leading the way in farming and manufacturing.
The Mennonites who settled in Russia kept their language, their religion, and
their culture intact. But as the nineteenth century drew to a close, Mennonite
community identity was increasingly seen as a threat. There was first a drive
for russification under the Czars; there then was increasing suspicion of all
things German with the outbreak of the First World War; and finally the
Bolshevik Revolution brought Christianity and prosperity into question. The
Second World War and its brutal Stalinist aftermath succeeded in destroying
life in the Mennonite colonies.
The first person accounts translated here tell the stories of people who almost
miraculously survived successive waves of revolution, civil war,
assassination, economic and political purges, and arbitrary arrest and
banishment. The stories of these survivors are just now beginning to be
published, in both German and Russian.
Sarah Dyck's selection and skillful translation of these memoirs opens a rare
window through which English readers can begin to grasp the reality of life in
the Soviet empire for those judged to be enemies of the People. These stories
provide graphic and personal documentation of a land and a people in
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| Ambassador to His People | Details... |
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| Bela Banerjee | Details... |
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| Christopher Dock, Colonial Schoolmaster | Details... |
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| Emma: A Widow Among the Amish | Details... |
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| Fabric and Patterns: Portraits of Some Rural Kansas Mennonite | Details... |
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| Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American | Details... |
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| For His Sake | Details... |
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| Harold S. Bender, 1897-1962 | Details... |
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| Hidden Rainbow | Details... |
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| Journey Into Freedom: One Family's Real-Life Drama | Details... |
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| Lucy Winchester | Details... |
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| Not In Despair | Details... |
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| Nurturing Spirit Through Song: The Life of Mary K. Oyer | Details... |
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| Report for Duty | Details... |
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| Searching for Sacred Ground: The Journey of Chief Lawrence Hart, Mennonite | Details... |
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| Siberian Diary of Aron P. Toews | Details... |
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| Simone: A Saint for Outsiders | Details... |
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| Stories Our Mothers Told | Details... |
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| The Limits of Perfection: A Conversation with J. Lawrence Burkholder | Details... |
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| The Measure of My Days: Engaging the Life and Thought of John L Ruth | Details... |
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| The Work is Thine, O Christ: In honor of Erland Waltner | Details... |
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| Unspoken Love | Details... |
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| Without the Loss of One: The Story of Nevin and Esther Bender and its Implications for the Church Today | Details... |
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| Writing Peace: The Unheard Voices of Great War Mennonite Objectors | Details... |
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| Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. Hostetler | Details... |