Angela and Rolf Kruse and their five children (four daughters and one son) have lived on Gesses mountain in Ethiopia among the Gumuz people for the past five years. They recently returned to Canada after 17 years of ministry in Ethiopia among Sudanese refugees and tribal people. Angela shared this story with Bearing Witness as Keep Reading…
Juana García, a pioneer leader of the Brethren in Christ Church in Cuba, passed away on January 20, 2017 at age 93. In the 1950s García worked alongside Howard and Pearl Wolgemuth, who served as Brethren in Christ missionaries in Cuba beginning in 1953. In 1960, when Wolgemuths were advised to leave Cuba following the Cuban Revolution, García and Keep Reading…
“Though we are already Mennonites in name, we are learning how to be real peacemakers and what it means to reconcile.”
“We don’t understand why it happened, but we do know that God was with Al through all this time.”
“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.”
“This is something that we embrace. That we are not to fight with one another, but to live in peace with another.”
“No matter how difficult the situation you are in, it is worth the cost to follow Jesus Christ.”
“I gave up being in the norm to live together with God.”
Written by Gerald Mast. The below text was originally presented as a sermon at First Mennonite Church of Bluffton, Ohio and published on Mast’s personal blog in January of 2015. In order to find our way into the story of Anna Jansz, we must travel from Zurich, Switzerland in 1525 to the north German city of Keep Reading…
Although some of the stories shared by Bearing Witness are available elsewhere in written form, many others are not. Rather they are family or personal stories shared with us in a letter, email, or, in some cases, an interview (see the stories of Paul and Suja Phinehas, Stanimir Katanic, or Tulio Pedraza for examples). This year the Keep Reading…