“If we love the people who don’t believe as we believe, it will show love.”
Elisante Daniel Lulu — Tanzania
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.”
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.”
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…
When Christianity is a minority religion
Like Paul and Suja Phinehas, featured in a recent story on the main Bearing Witness site, Naomi Tamura’s Christian faith makes her a religious minority. At Mennonite World Conference Assembly 16 in Harrisburg, PA, this past July, Tamura shared with us both the struggle and the opportunity that accompanies Christian faith in Japan. Both the Keep Reading…
Paul and Suja Phinehas
In the Tamil Nadu region of India, Paul and Suja Phinehas serve as leaders of Gilgal Mission Trust, a member church of Mennonite World Conference. In August they shared with Bearing Witness some of the struggles they face as Christians in a predominantly Hindu society. Paul Phinehas’s grandfather worked as a healer in a Hindu Keep Reading…
Mennonite Brethren in Istmina, Colombia
In 1953 Colombian president Gustavo Rojas Pinilla passed the Treaty of Missions, an agreement that designated the most unpopulated regions of the country—geographically large but representing a small percentage of the population—as Mission Territories under the direction and control of the Catholic Church. In these years the Mennonite Brethren Board of Foreign Missions (of North Keep Reading…
Jakob Aron Rempel
Elder Jacob Aron Rempel was probably one of the most important personalities among the Mennonites of Russia in the 20th century, both in terms of his theological education as well as in his extraordinary personality and public activities. In 1929 he was arrested by the USSR’s secret police force (GPU) for his religious affiliations. He spent Keep Reading…