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| Worship, community, mission. How do these arenas in the life of a
congregation prosper? Here is a helpful study for all congregations who are
intent on carrying forward the ministry of the church where they live. Nine
writers describe the Congregational Discipling Vision as it applies to various
aspects of church life. Underscores making disciples as the primary goal of
all church efforts, and offers specific suggestions to help congregations
move in that direction. | |
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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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Paraguay
Mennonite Central Committee
| 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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| Miss Nancy | View shopping basket |
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| The Amish are widely known and appreciated for their quiet industry, their religious devotion, and their unique culture, but they have rarely produced stories of cross-cultural missionaries. Until now, that is. Miss Nancy is the inspiring and fascinating story of God's work in the life on one Amish missionary to Belize. As a result of her years of selfless service to the small Central American nation, Miss Nancy Coblentz is known and loved by thousands, from street waifs to statement, from paupers to a prime minister. Whether in drudgery, danger, or success, Miss Nancy's dauntless faith and devotion have inspired and challenged countless people. Her story is both entertaining and edifying. As you read it, you will be amazed at the God who uses ordinary people to produce extraordinary results. COpyright 2009 Christian Aid Ministries | |
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| A Hundred Camels: A Mission Doctor's Sojourn and Murder Trial in Somalia | View shopping basket |
| by Gerald L. Wagner with Shari Miller Wagner |
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| Here is the account of a Mennonite mission doctor tried for a patient's murder. As this suspenseful, true-life drama unfolds, readers are given access to an ancient, clan-based culture few Americans have experienced in a country recently declared by the United Nations as a humanitarian crisis "worse than Darfur." When Dr. Gerald L. Miller left his Markle, Indiana, family practice to respond to an urgent need for a doctor at the Jamama Hospital, he faced the challenge of understanding an Islamic culture much different from his own and of dealing with medical situations unlike any he had encountered: village children attacked by a mad dog, a psychotic woman chained to a stake, infants dead from malaria, banana workers bitten by venomous snakes. Not only did Miller respond readily and with compassion, he also acted with ingenuity, discovering, for example, that the malaria organism was crossing the placental barrier. Throughout a year of challenges, Dr. Miller had his Mennonite faith and the abiding support of Somali hospital staff and mission personnel to sustain him. Readers will be moved by the climax of this drama, a surprising outcome involving the actions of a single Somali family. Copyright 2009 Cascadia Publishing House | |
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| On the Way with Jesus: A Passion for Mission | View shopping basket |
| by Richard Showalter |
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| Richard Showalter's lifetime passion has been the church's local and international mission to enlarge the body of Christ through transformation of individual souls. In On the Way with Jesus, Showalter puts his passion into words as he explores the multiple dimensions of Christian mission. While offering pointed challenges to mission engagement, Showlter encourages the church to enter more fulling into its mission both locally and globally. Copyright 2008 Herald Press | |
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| Sepia Prints | View shopping basket |
| by Viola Wiebe and Marilyn Wiebe Dodge |
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| A visual walk along the roads of India delighfully capturing the
development and challenges of a missionary project from 1903 through to the
early 1970s. | |
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| Reaching Beyond the Mennonite Comfort Zone: Exploring from the Inside Out | View shopping basket |
| by Will Schirmer |
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| Here is a resource for Mennonites who wish to reach "beyond the
Mennonite comfort zone." The Mennonite church is undergoing historic
transitions: New denominational structures, a new vision, a new focus,
and a new spirit of mission-mindedness-or as Mennonites now put it,
being missional. These exciting changes require rethinking of
relationships with each other and with people beyond Mennonite
congregations, as Mennonites seek to fulfill the great commission of
linking the message of the gospel with needs of surrounding
communities. | |
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| Tears of the Rain | View shopping basket |
| by Ruth Ann Stelfox |
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Africa
| For Wayne and Ruth Ann Stelfox, the war-torn city of Monrovia,
Liberia, was a drastic change from rural Alberta, Canada,. But they
and their five children accepted t he challenge of a tow-year mission
assignment in West Africa-and found themselves immersed in a world of
starving children, extreme poverty, disease, human sacrifice,
witchcraft, and violence. In t he midst of this darkness, they
found joy, love, lasting friendships, and hearts open to the light of
God's love. They saw beauty in t he scarred landscape around them, and
the tears of heaven in the torrential African rains. As they worked to
help change the lives of those around them, their own lives were
changed, and the miracles they witnessed increased their awe of the God
they had gone to Africa to serve. Copyright Christian Aid
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| Development to a Different Drummer: Anabaptist/Mennonite Experiences and Perspectives | View shopping basket |
| by Richard A. Yoder, Calvin W. Redekop & Vernon E. Jantzi |
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| Mennonites are known around the world as caring and ethical
people. But are the results of their work in development
internationally actually different from those of other organizations?
Copyright 2004. Good Books | |
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| Russian, North Americans and Telugus Mennonite Brethren Missions in India 1885 - 1975 | View shopping basket |
| by Peter Penner |
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India
| Set in one of the bleakest areas of India, this account of
Mennonite Brethren missions places their work within the context of the
larger Protestant effort to bring the gospel to various people in all parts
of the world. It traces the difficulties that many missionaries face in
seeking to establish the Christian church among the Telugus. The
narrative, based entirely on primary sources, reveals many absorbing and
ironic situations. | |
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| Anabaptism and Mission: A Bibliography 1859-2000 | Details... |
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| Anabaptists Meeting Muslims: A Calling for Presence in the Way of Christ | Details... |
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| Comanches and Mennonites on the Oklahoma Plains: A.J. and Magdalena Becker and the Post Oak Mission | Details... |
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| Creating communities of the Kingdom: New Testament Models of
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| English Teaching as Christian Mission: An Applied Theology | Details... |
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| Fifty Years, Fifty Stories: The Mennonite Mission in Somalia, 1953-2003 | Details... |
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| Global Gods: Exploring the Role of Religions in Modern Societies | Details... |
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| God's Call to Mission | Details... |
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| Healing The Wounds: One Family's Journey Among The Northern Cheyenne | Details... |
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| Images of the Church in Mission | Details... |
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| Letters on a Trip around the World | Details... |
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| Meeting our Multifaith Neighbors | Details... |
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| Mennonite Missionary Study Series | Details... |
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| Mennonite Witness in the Middle East: A Missiological Introduction | Details... |
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| Mission-Focused Congregations: A Bible Study | Details... |
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| Stories From Below the Poverty Line: Urban Lessons for Today's Mission | Details... |
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| The North End Lives: A Journey Through Poverty Terrain | Details... |
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| Whatever It Takes | Details... |
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| With Our Own Eyes | Details... |