“This is something that we embrace. That we are not to fight with one another, but to live in peace with another.”
Richard Rancap — Philippines
Lucy Roca – Colombia and Canada
“No matter how difficult the situation you are in, it is worth the cost to follow Jesus Christ.”
Naomi Tamura — Japan
“I gave up being in the norm to live together with God.”
Alexander Neufeld (Part II) — Germany
“I could not work with those who would destroy the church, who were responsible for the sufferings of so many Christians.”
Alexander Neufeld (Part I) — Germany
“The Bibles were needed so badly that we used everything that we could!”
Emmanuel Wayindama
The following excerpt is taken from Jim Bertsche, “That’s all you can do to me,” in The Jesus Tribe: Grace stories from Congo’s Mennonites, 1912-2012 ed. Rod Hollinger-Janzen, Nancy Myers and Jim Bertsche (Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2012): 71-72. Co-published with the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism. The first warning Pastor Keep Reading…
Costly extravagance
Last Sunday—the fifth Sunday of Lent—our pastor preached on John 12:1-8, when Mary anoints Jesus’ feet with costly perfume. In the silence that followed the sermon, the phrase that emerged for me was “costly extravagance.” Mary’s gift—expensive perfume poured over Jesus’ feet and wiped off with her own hair—was certainly extravagant. The overwhelming aroma and Keep Reading…
Introducing…the Bearing Witness book!
Last week was an exciting one for the Bearing Witness Stories Project, as we celebrated the release of a new book! Over the course of the past year, the Bearing Witness Stories Project and Plough Publishing have worked together to produce a collection of stories of costly discipleship that illustrate Christ-like nonviolence in a diverse Keep Reading…
Adi Walujo — Indonesia
“Maybe people think persecution is always negative, but for us we learned how to depend on God while our church was closed.”
SangMin Lee reflects on time in prison
Sang-Min Lee, the South Korean Mennonite conscientious objector so many of you were praying for, visited the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism and Goshen College on December 8, as part of a longer visit in the United States. In April of 2014, SangMin was sentenced to eighteen months in prison for his faith-based refusal Keep Reading…