Angela and Rolf Kruse and their five children (four daughters and one son) have lived on Gesses mountain in Ethiopia among the Gumuz people for the past five years. They recently returned to Canada after 17 years of ministry in Ethiopia among Sudanese refugees and tribal people. Angela shared this story with Bearing Witness as Keep Reading…
Juana García, a pioneer leader of the Brethren in Christ Church in Cuba, passed away on January 20, 2017 at age 93. In the 1950s García worked alongside Howard and Pearl Wolgemuth, who served as Brethren in Christ missionaries in Cuba beginning in 1953. In 1960, when Wolgemuths were advised to leave Cuba following the Cuban Revolution, García and Keep Reading…
All Mennonite World Conference member churches who participated in the recent Global Anabaptist Profile (GAP) survey were asked the following two questions: “If the government required military service, what would you do?” and “Do you agree or disagree that it’s okay for Christians to fight in a war?” For the Convención de las Iglesias Evangélicas Menonitas de Nicaragua (CIEMN), Keep Reading…
“If we love the people who don’t believe as we believe, it will show love.”
“Christians are taking on this role of witnessing publicly—even paying the cost of being arrested—in order to witness to compassion for refugees.”
“Though we are already Mennonites in name, we are learning how to be real peacemakers and what it means to reconcile.”
“How do we connect the life and worship of the church to our actions? Tony’s death was a call for people, to realize that we need to be doing even more. “
“We don’t understand why it happened, but we do know that God was with Al through all this time.”
“Guiovanni realized that God had been protecting the building, and that filled him with happiness.”
“It was a very powerful witness to the role of this servant of God who, in her own quiet way, preached more gospel to us than many words.”