Postcards from Europe
You’ve got a friend in Europe By Melanie Hess Connie Byler often begins a sentence with the phrase, “I’ve got a friend….” Connie, in her many years of ministry in Spain, has made friends everywhere. She knows people all across Burgos and throughout the surrounding villages, including military generals to whom she taught English, and […]
Our stories
In service, Lord, to thee By Andrew Clouse All Christians—no matter what stage of life—are called to live their lives in service to others. Service itself can be as simple as an afternoon work project, as demonstrated at the 2011 Mennonite Church USA Convention in Pittsburgh, when nearly 3,000 youth and adults served 47 organizations […]
Are you on the welcoming committee?
Radical inclusion? But Mama said, ‘Don’t talk to strangers.’ By Andrew Clouse One of the pieces of advice I took to heart as a youngster was, “Don’t talk to strangers.” In my adolescent mind, this refrain was lumped together in a soup of fear that put strangers into the same category as all of the […]
Prophetic pursuit
Kingdom seeds Sowing today to reap tomorrow By Andrew Clouse “Then Jesus said, ‘God’s kingdom is like seed thrown on a field by a farmer who then goes to bed and forgets about it. The seed sprouts and grows—he has no idea how it happens. The earth does it all without his help: first, a […]
Transforming Mission
David Bosch’s Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission, now available in over a dozen languages, is widely recognized as an historic and magisterial contribution to the study of mission. Examining the entire sweep of Christian tradition, he shows how five paradigms have historically encapsulated the Christian understanding of mission and then outlines the characteristics […]
Digging for treasure in your own backyard
Reflections on missional experiments in the Netherlands.
Even The Demons Submit
Demonic oppression? Mental illness? What would it look like if deliverance ministers, psychologists, pastors, biblical scholars, missiologists, anthropologists, and people who have experienced deliverance and healing were to compare notes, tell their stories, and try to learn from one another? This book aims to reflect that conversation and promote further conversation.
What I Learned from the African Church
Twenty-two students reflect on a life-changing experience
Is it Insensitive to Share Your Faith
The book honestly explores whether Christians can talk about and live their faith without veering into a salesman mode or without condemning persons who believe otherwise, and why this is such a tension-filled matter.
‘A New Day in Mission’
In Africa, the ancestors guide life from their superior vantage point of proximity to spiritual power and from their wealth of experiential wisdom. Since Ed and Irene Weaver have been those ancestors for me and my husband, Rod, being chosen to write part of Irene’s story is one of the highest honors I have ever […]
A New Day in Mission’
Irene Weaver reflects on her century of ministry
Students Talk about Service
The history of the Service Inquiry Program at Goshen College