MennoLink Books and Music

A Christmas instrumental recording with artist Calvin Dyck.

A recording produced by Communitas Supportive Care Society (formerly MCC Supportive Care Services), a non-profit, faith-based social services agency. Funds raised from the sale of this recording go toward the work of Communitas Supportive Care Society in supporting people who have disabilities. Copyright 2004.

This 25th anniversary edition begins with a new foreword by Mary Beth Lind that looks back at what we have and have not learned, the good news and bad news, and looks ahead to reclaiming the spirituality of food.

This book contains the original collection of recipes, spiced with anecdotes, comments and tips gleaned from 25 years of cooking More-With-Less.

Copyright 2001.

A cookbook in the tradition of More-with-Less Cookbook written by Joetta Handrich Schlabach with recipe editor Kristina Mast Burnett. Some recipes adapted to reduce fat or shorten preparation time. Alternate ingredients are suggested for items that may be hard to find.

Winner of 1992 Silver Angel Award from Religion in Media.

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

copyright 2000.

Taize style worship music.

A recording produced by Communitas Supportive Care Society (formerly MCC Supportive Care Services), a non-profit, faith-based social services agency. Funds raised from the sale of this recording go toward the work of Communitas Supportive Care Society in supporting people who have disabilities.

Copyright 2008.

Sonia K. Weaver presents some of the questions Mennonite workers in Palestine regularly receive from supporters in Canada, the United States and beyond along with straightforward answers. While the book grew out of the experience of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), a relief, development, and peacebuilding agency of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches, it also pays attention to the work of other Mennonite mission and peacebuilding agencies in the country. The booklet is organized by theme, but all of the areas are inter-related. Includes a listing of additional resources for further study.

Copyright 2007 Herald Press

First there is An in Holland in the early 1940's, fighting to keep the War from taking over her young, promising life. Despite being from a well-to-do family, she risks her life repeatedly to care for war-time refugees-hiding a baby in her hand-luggage while on a ferry that draws gunfire; distracting the guard at a bridge so a fugitive without a pass can be bicycled across; stuffing documents under a body lying in state in a room in her home when soldiers suddenly launch a raid; and much more.

At the same time, groups of women across North America meeting sewing circles, concerned that the War is destroying homes and families throughout Europe. They know they can't stop the devastation. But they can make quilts-and then bundle them up and send them off to do their part to give comfort and courage during the war.

Lynn comes 20-some years later, showing up in Amsterdam fresh from America in the mid-1960's, a little rebellious and tired of another war. She didn't know An then, and quilts were not something she ever made. But her grandmother and aunts and other older women in her childhood church did.

One weekend, Lynn discovers the quilts that survived the War and goes searching for their owner and stories. She found An and, ultimately, herself.

The book brings together these true, yet nearly unbelievable stories; it pictures 19 work-worn quilts, along with many historic photographs of the places where the War reached An, as well as current photos of An and Lynn together today. This is a treasure that will inspire women everywhere not to turn aside from helping others-in little ways, in ordinary ways.

Copyright 2005 Good Books.

Distinctive choral selections for the Christmas season. A mix of familiar and unusual Christmas music from various times and composers.

A recording produced by Communitas Supportive Care Society (formerly MCC Supportive Care Services), a non-profit, faith-based social services agency. Funds raised from the sale of this recording go toward the work of Communitas Supportive Care Society in supporting people who have disabilities. Copyright 1999.

A recording produced by Communitas Supportive Care Society (formerly MCC Supportive Care Services), a non-profit, faith-based social services agency. Funds raised from the sale of this recording go toward the work of Communitas Supportive Care Society in supporting people who have disabilities. Copyright 2006.