“Though we are already Mennonites in name, we are learning how to be real peacemakers and what it means to reconcile.”
Olga Rubel — Ukraine
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.”
Andreas Wurtz, Margarethe Strauss, and the believers of Sankt Peter, Austria
Deep in the mountainous south of Austria, Andreas Wurtz grew up in the province of Kaernten. As a young man he married and began a new home in Sankt Peter, in the valley of the River Drau. Like everyone they knew, he and his wife were Roman Catholics, and when their first child was Keep Reading…
Esther Mbombo
Pour français cliquez ici Esther Mbombo wa Tshipongo was a strong and generous woman, whose dedication to the church sometimes made her an object of criticism and conflict. Someone who knew her says, “Her only response was to suppress her tears and devote herself to reconciliation, even if she wasn’t at fault.” Many people remember Keep Reading…