“If we love the people who don’t believe as we believe, it will show love.”
Elisante Daniel Lulu — Tanzania
Matt Anslow — Australia
“Christians are taking on this role of witnessing publicly—even paying the cost of being arrested—in order to witness to compassion for refugees.”
Olga Rubel — Ukraine
“Though we are already Mennonites in name, we are learning how to be real peacemakers and what it means to reconcile.”
Tom and Carolyn Albright (Tony’s story) — United States
“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. “
Gladys and Al Geiser — United States
“We don’t understand why it happened, but we do know that God was with Al through all this time.”
Peter Stucky (Guiovanni’s story) — Colombia
“Guiovanni realized that God had been protecting the building, and that filled him with happiness.”
Peter Stucky (Gloria Lizcano’s story) — Colombia
“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.”
Richard Rancap — Philippines
“This is something that we embrace. That we are not to fight with one another, but to live in peace with another.”
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!”
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.”