Prayers of gratitude and intercession

  • The International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) is made up of 21 national churches in 19 countries with approximately 450,000 members. ICOMB exists to facilitate relationships and ministries to enhance the witness and discipleship of its member national churches – connecting, strengthening and expanding.

    Introducing “The Church on Mission”: an ICOMB consultation on mission and prayer

    Location: Bangkok, Thailand

    Dates: 7–11 March 2017

    The global MB family is seeking God’s direction for our greater mission calling. MB Mission is a vital part of this event as we work together. It will be historic. In 1988, a mission consultation was held in Curitiba, Brazil. ICOMB was a result. In 1999, a smaller mission consultation was held in Wichita, USA. This is the first time that the global MB church itself is calling for such a meeting.

    Our vision is that each conference will leave with a renewed sense of God’s calling with three or four specific mission initiatives (global and local). Our faith vision is that each group will leave with a commitment to build a prayer movement in their national church.

    Steering committee: Heinrich Klassen (Germany), Paul Duck (Brazil), Vic Wiens (MB Mission), David Wiebe (Canada)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Elkhart, Indiana, USA – Holy Spirit fire dances in Bercy Mundedi’s eyes. It sets aflame the ministries to which she has been called – the most recent being to lead the Kalonda Bible Institute in Democratic Republic of Congo.

    She was named director during the 29 June 29–3 July 2016 general assembly of Communauté Mennonite au Congo (Mennonite Church of Congo), which takes place every two years. The institute, located about three miles from the denomination’s headquarters in Tshikapa, is one of the main centres where Mennonite pastors are trained in Congo. There are 36 students enrolled at Kalonda, eight of whom are women.

    “Reverend Pastor Mundedi is a woman who has strong spiritual, moral and intellectual qualities,” said Adolphe Komuesa Kalunga, national president of Mennonite Church of Congo. “She has shown herself to be committed to Jesus Christ and devoted to pastoral ministry. We have seen her to be eager to respond to whatever ministry the church requests of her.”

    Mundedi has an intimate knowledge of KBI, having taught there for 10 years. She was one of the first three Mennonite Church of Congo women to be ordained in 2013 and rejoices in being part of the breakthrough work that God is doing in her denomination.

    “My joy overflows,” Mundedi said just prior to her installation as KBI director. She described her vision for this ministry church leadership training to lead to transformation of the whole person.

    “I want to promote holy leadership in our churches,” Mundedi said. “I also want to inspire other women and girls to use their gifts in the church, to let them know that the gifts the Holy Spirit gives them are to be used in building up the church.”

    When she was 14, Mundedi was already preaching to her classmates. Older women noticed her spiritual understanding and encouraged her to pursue theological studies. Mundedi said she never would have made this decision without their intervention because, at that time, women could not teach and preach in the church.

    In 1996, after completing her degree in theology in Kinshasa, Mundedi returned to her village to teach. Her gifts came to the attention of national Mennonite leaders, and they hired her as a KBI professor. The irony was clear: Though church policies did not allow Mundedi to be a pastor, they invited her to train pastors.

    Rod Hollinger-Janzen, executive coordinator of Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission, said Mundedi is the first woman to direct a Mennonite Church of Congo institution since Elvina Martens, a North American missionary doctor, oversaw the denomination’s medical work in the 1960s.

    —Lynda Hollinger-Janzen, Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission and Eastern Mennonite Missions

     

  • “Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace” (James 3:18).

    In a world ravaged by violence, it is not easy to be a Peace Church – a church dedicated to the ways of Christ’s peace. These ways require much intentionality, persistence and even sacrifice. It is not always certain that Christ’s ways of peace will be effective. And yet the author of James reminds us that how we plant our seeds matters. If we indeed want the fruit of righteousness (which is closely related to the principle of justice), we must plant in peace. 

    Along with the Society of Friends (Quakers) and the Church of the Brethren, Mennonites are one of three historic Peace Churches. These churches have, throughout their history, confessed peace and the ways of peace as central to participating in God’s kingdom.

    How does your church form a faith identity rooted in the ways of peace?

    As a worldwide communion of faith, we will be commemorating Peace Sunday on 18 September 2016. How does your church foster the peace that is so needed in our world?

    —Andrew Suderman, Mennonite World Conference Peace Commission secretary

    Click here to see the Peace Sunday 2016 Worship Resource.

     

  • Over the past three years, my family has enjoyed friendship with an extended family from Iraq who came to the USA as refugees and asylum seekers. We have enjoyed meals together in our homes, picnics, hiking trips, choir concerts and church services.

    When terrible events happen in the news, we lament together.

    Occasionally, where there has been illness, I have been invited to pray for healing in the name of Jesus the Messiah.

    Why is this family so open to friendship with Christians?

    They remember their mixed neighbourhood in Baghdad where their ancestors shared community with Christians for the past 600 years. They tell of going to their Christian neighbours’ homes to celebrate baby baptisms and likewise of Christians coming to their family weddings and baby naming ceremonies.

    This all ended in 2003 with the second Iraq war and the departure of virtually all Christians from their community. Today, warfare, terrorism and inflammatory rhetoric put tremendous stress on both Christian and Muslim communities around the world.

    How can this stress be relieved?

    One recent example came in January 2016: Muslim leaders from around the world gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco, to consider the responsibilities of Muslims toward religious minorities living in their midst. They grounded their deliberations on the Treaty of Medina (circa 622 AD).

    The Marrakesh Declaration calls upon Muslims in politics, education and arts to develop a more just approach to those with other religious convictions. It confronts extremism, affirming “that it is unconscionable to employ religion for the purpose of aggressing upon the rights of religious minorities.”

    Anabaptists along with Christians everywhere should rejoice at this sincere effort to address a contentious, ongoing problem. “The Marrakesh Declaration has the potential to be…a powerful, peacemaking counterweight to the violent Islamic extremism embodied in groups like ISIS,” says Rick Love, founder and leader of Peace Catalyst International, who attended the Marrakesh gathering.

    The reality is that all human communities fall short of the vision God gave through Moses nearly 4,000 years ago:

    “The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God” (Leviticus 19:34).

    And the vision of healthy community Jesus gave 2,000 years ago:

    “‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’… ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these” (Mark 12:29–31).

    A hadith from Buhkari paints a similar vision, “Of the necessity of love for the neighbour, the Prophet Muhammad ( ??? ???? ???? ???? ) said: ‘None of you has faith until you love for your neighbour what you love for yourself’” (from A Common Word between Us and You).

    One concern recent initiatives the Muslim community fail to address is the question of conversion from Islam.

    James Schrag, then-executive director of Mennonite Church USA, expressed this concern in his formal response to A Common Word between Us and You (a scholarly initiative Muslims offered to Christians 2007):

    “We believe that in any society, the love of neighbour…includes respect for that person’s freedom to believe or not to believe, to choose his or her faith and religion.”

    The lordship of Jesus over all things means my first allegiance is to the Kingdom of Heaven and thus I bear witness faithfully that all people are created in the image of God and worthy to be treated with honour and value. I long for both Muslims and Christians to be transformed by the truth that Jesus really is the Saviour of the whole world.

    Together with my Iraqi friends, we are experiencing the joy of friendship, community and hospitality as we share freely and openly.

    —Jonathan Bornman is a member of Eastern Mennonite Missions’ Christian/Muslim Relations team.

     

    A voice from the Indonesia Mennonite community:

    The Jakarta Declaration is a positive signal for peace and constructive relations between Islam and Christianity, especially in a Muslim majority country like Indonesia. I hope it doesn’t remain only a declaration, but also can be realized in society. We can celebrate it as a commitment for peace among communities.

    —Danang Kristiawan is pastor of GITJ Jepara, a congregation of the Sinode Gereja Injili di Tanah Jawa (Evangelical Church of Java Synod).

     

  • “There is no path, Pilgrim. The path is made by walking.” This lovely phrase by the poet Antonio Machado epitomizes my life journey, particularly the two years I sojourned in Colombia.

    Each person’s identity is marked by their family and social contexts, and other histories. To tell the truth, my identity as Rut Atarama, a Peruvian and a Mennonite Brethren, was redefined during my time of service with Mennonite Central Committee Colombia Seed program.

    For two years, I lived in the city of Ibagué: capital of the Tolima region, and considered the birthplace of the FARC (the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces). My job with the Mencoldes Foundation consisted of walking alongside of families displaced by the armed conflict in all the different processes that come with adjusting to a new life in Ibagué. I also worked with the Ibagué Mennonite church accompanying community processes. This story refers only to the church.

    As part of the call to be a positive influence in the community, the church works in a number of areas, in particular, with children and youth from communities with a high incidence of drug addiction, delinquency and poverty.

    “Teacher, what do you do when the shooting starts?” This question posed by a seven-year-old girl reveals the daily reality for these vulnerable young people. “My brother and I hide underneath the bed.”

    Due to the complexity of this violent context, it is necessary to address themes of abuse prevention, peacebuilding and values by taking a local perspective.  A group of brave professional women – Fabiola Arango, Rosa Triana, Amanda Valencia and Diana Suérez – decided to get to work and create new Christian education material for the community children and youth with whom the Ibagué Mennonite church relates.

    Praise be to God that I was called to be a part of the work of this beautiful group. A social communicator and Mennonite Brethren Peruvian woman working alongside Colombian Mennonite women made for a lovely Anabaptist fellowship opportunity!

    Structuring lessons, long conversations about thematic focuses, observations from the communities, methodological investigations, revisions and corrections, among other things, marked our meetings for more than a year. All of this remains in my memory forever. My dear friends taught me these wise words: “Children should have spaces where they can be as they are, to be free, happy, dreamers… to feel loved and valued.”

    In December, 2015, with great joy, Aguapanela!!![1]: A Christian Curriculum for Childhood and Adolescence was born. This curriculum is not only used by the church in Ibagué but also by other Anabaptist communities in Colombia.

    After finishing my time of service in Colombia, I returned to my country bringing with me good experiences, memories, stories and also new perspectives of my faith. I also brought some copies of Aguapanela and I shared them in my community with joy. Currently, the children’s program of my church Iglesia Hermanos Menonitas de Miraflores (Miraflores MB church) is using this educational material.

    I am profoundly thankful to those who have crossed my path in Colombia. Thanks to my dear friends who worked so hard on Aguapanela. Thank you for sharing your stories, passion and your faith lived out in acts of love for God and your neighbour. These have strengthened my identity – as Anabaptist, Christian and Peruvian with hints of Colombia.

    –Rut Atarama, a member of the Iglesia Cristiana Hermanos Menonitas, Miraflores. Piura, Perú (Mennonite Brethren church in Peru). 

    To find out more about the Aguapanela resource in Spanish, write to: menonita_ibg@hotmail.com or fabiola.arango@gmail.com

     

    Aguapanela!!!: A Christian Curriculum for Childhood and Adolescence

    [1] Aguapanela is a drink made from jaggery (sugar in its rawest form) that is often served at meetings or when people are sick.

     

     

  • The International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) is made up of 21 national churches in 19 countries with approximately 450,000 members. ICOMB exists to facilitate relationships and ministries to enhance the witness and discipleship of its member national churches – connecting, strengthening and expanding.

    Meeting with César García

    After the Panama Summit, I met Cesar for the third annual meeting between Mennonite World Conference (MWC) and ICOMB. We discuss matters of mutual interest and concern. We consider MWC to be our “umbrella” global family. We always collaborate so that we don’t relate to MB national bodies in different ways, especially if there are problems.

    ICOMB is the Mennonite Brethren community – the global “denomination.” It is the end result of mission. Service to others and proclamation of the gospel are the means to establish local churches that will eventually result in a Mennonite Brethren national church – an indigenous body serving and proclaiming within their own cultural context. As the expression of the Mennonite Brethren global family, altogether we form the MB denomination as an “international community.”

    –David Wiebe

     

  • The annual Central America, Mexico and Caribbean Anabaptist Consultation (CAMCA) took place 5–9 July 2016 in the Escuela de Capacitación Adventista Salvadoreña, San Juan Opico, La Libertad, El Salvador. Fifty-nine participants came from México, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Argentina. It was organized by Sandra Campos, member of Asociación Iglesias Cristianas Menonitas de Costa Rica (Costa Rica Mennonite church) and the Executive Committee of Mennonite World Conference, and Samuel Martínez, a pastor from Iglesia Evangélica Menonita de El Salvador (El Salvador Mennonite church).

    It was a real blessing to receive helpful input for carrying out pastoral work amid current realities. The keynote speaker was pastor Gilberto Flores, with more than 40 years of pastoring experience in Central America and the United States. The overarching theme was “Responsive Pastoral Ministry for Contemporary Challenges: Re-imagining pastoral action for postmodernity.”

    Various reports were also part of the agenda. Olga Piedrasanta from Guatemala with Mary Cano and Ondina Murillo from Honduras coordinated the work and report of the “Latin American Anabaptist Women doing Theology” while Ester Bornes from Argentina facilitated a workshop called “Created Equal.”

    Agency representatives gave brief reports about programs at Seminario Anabautista Latinoamericano: SEMILLA (Latin American Anabaptist Seminary), the Central American peace network and Mennonite Central Committee. As the new Mennonite World Conference regional representative for the Central America region, Willi Hugo Pérez, rector of SEMILLA, also shared his vision for collaborative work amongst Mennonite and Anabaptist churches, organizations and church members. Participants laid hands on Pérez and prayed words of blessing and sending upon him for this important task.

    We celebrated the renewal of CAMCA and the desire to meet again in 2018 hosted by the Honduran Mennonite Church.

    Each country named a CAMCA representative who is commissioned to promote CAMCA in their churches so that more youth, women, pastors and even families start to plan to attend the next consultation. 

    Many thanks were extended to the Salvadoran Mennonite Church for receiving us with such warmth and tenderness. The participants were inspired to do their best in carrying out their pastoral duties. All experienced the presence of the Spirit of our Loving God via the presentations, studying the Word, the testimonies, praying and singing. We have returned to the words of Jesus Christ, the lamb that was slain, “I make all things new” (Revelation 21:5). 

    —Jaime Prieto is from Costa Rica, married to Silvia de Lima from Brazil, and they are the parents of Thomáz Satuyé. Jaime has a PhD in Theology from the University of Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany (1992), has been a member of the Costa Rican Mennonite Church since 1971, and now belongs to the Asociación de Iglesias Evangélicas Menonitas de Costa Rica (member of MWC).

    Participants of CAMCA 2016. Photo: Andrew Boden.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    A group of participants at the Latin American Anabaptist Women doing Theology event. Photo: Andrew Boden.

     

  • What comes to your mind when you hear the word hospitality? It usually reminds me of the experience I had when I visited a country in another continent.

    I thought Colombians were good hosts until a family from a different culture hosted me. It was just amazing: the amount and quality of food they offered, their tangible efforts to make me feel very welcomed, every detail in my room, their questions, their respect and readiness to serve in every possible way.

    However, more than anything else, it was their attitude that touched me. They were ready to stop all their activities and just focus their generous hearts on serving their guest.

    Hospitality is defined as the ability to pay attention to a guest. This is very difficult because we are troubled by our own needs. Our own concerns prevent us from shifting our focus from ourselves towards others. If sin is the focus of the soul on itself, as Augustine of Hippo described it, then a life without sin is one that is able to focus on others. In other words, a life of hospitality is a life with no sin.

    Jesus is the best example of what hospitality means. In his life and death on the cross, God enters into the world of human existence. Through his compassion, he focuses his attention on others instead of on himself. It is through Jesus’ suffering and brokenness that God shares the mortality, frailty and vulnerability of humanity. And then, in the book of Revelation, Jesus makes room in his glory for the multitude of all the nations that come to worship him.

    Jesus’ attitude and focus on the other brings healing to the people who have been abused, who have experienced pain and suffering. Neither the injustice of Jesus’ wounds, nor the reality of his ultimate triumph and lordship lead him to take care of himself. He is there to bring comfort, guidance and to shepherd others. Jesus has come to serve, not to be served – and this even in his glory.

    Today, when we face the crisis of refugees that we see around the world, our call to hospitality as the body of Christ invites us to reveal God’s presence in the midst of that suffering and pain. It is a call to provide hope, healing, guidance and care. It is a call to focus our attention on those that are persecuted, sick and without a home. Even though we may experience many needs and enough problems to worry about, the call to serve others is still there. Regardless of our poverty, lack of resources, disagreements, conflicts, projects and plans, the call to focus our attention on others is still there.

    That is the reason why this issue of Courier/Correo/Courrier addresses this topic. The family that received me was such a good host not only because of their culture but also because of the way in which they lived out their experience of Christ. May God lead our global community to respond to others with the same attitude, living out our experience of God according to the steps of our Lord Jesus Christ!

    —César García, MWC general secretary, works out of the head office in Bogotá, Colombia.

    This article first appeared in Courier/Correo/Courrier April 2016.

     

  • The International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) is made up of 21 national churches in 19 countries with approximately 450,000 members. ICOMB exists to facilitate relationships and ministries to enhance the witness and discipleship of its member national churches – connecting, strengthening and expanding.

    Fraternal visit to Platanares, Panama: 6–8 June 2016

    After a somewhat rough, very wet boat ride through rain storms and ocean waves splashing into our boat, 11 delegates from the annual ICOMB summit were welcomed warmly by Hermes and Aleida Barrigon. Their home is spacious; the food was delicious; and the fellowship connected us in Christ. 

    Associate director for Latin America appointed:

    Rudi Plett, currently the delegate from Vereinigung der Mennoniten Brüder Gemeinden Paraguays (German Mennonite Brethren church in Paraguay) and ICOMB chair, will become half-time associate director under David Wiebe. His assignment is to lead and coach the Latin America MB national churches to strengthen and connect for their greater health and capacity for mission. His other half time role is serving the missionaries in Latin America as regional team leader for MB Mission. We look forward to what God will do, since God has been working already in special ways to bring Rudi (and his wife Ruth) to this point.

     

  • Bogotá, Colombia – Conrad Grebel University College hosted academics, practitioners, artists and church workers at the inaugural Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival, 9–12 June 2016. In Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 203 people from 20 countries (from Canada to Colombia to DR Congo) attended 30 concurrent sessions.

    Three plenary speakers (including Fernando Enns of Germany and Paulus Widjaja of Indonesia, known for their service with Mennonite World Conference), two banquet speakers, seven storytellers and six listeners led the event. In addition to lectures, the conference included seven installations of art, photography and sound, one concert, one play, three worship sessions and two drum circles.

    The conference examined a diversity of peace-related topics, such as inclusion and exclusion in the Mennonite church, development and livelihoods, history and theology, reflective practise, and case studies from India to Indonesia and from Laos to South Africa.

    The MWC Peace Commission led a workshop to explore the idea of a Global Anabaptist Peace Network (GAPN). Jenny Neme and Robert J. Suderman (both of the Peace Commission) and Noe Gonzalia (member of the GAPN Advisory Committee) shared stories to highlight the importance and blessings of being interconnected and the support and solidarity that comes with it.

    “There was a good spirit of engagement and interest in the idea of a Global Anabaptist Peace Network and the proposal presented. Most of the discussion that followed the presentation of the GAPN proposal focused on the organizational structure of the network,” says Peace Commission secretary Andrew Suderman who led the workshop and ensuing discussion. “It is exciting to see how this has already inspired some to think of the ways in which we are already and can further support one another as this network begins to take shape.”

    The event included creative evening events: Thursday’s public concert “Voices for Peace” and Saturday’s premiere of Theatre of the Beat’s “Yellow Bellies: An Alternative History of WWII,” and closed with a Sunday morning worship service and final plenary.

    Funding for the event came from 23 sponsors and financial supporters, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Mennonite Savings and Credit Union.

    —Mennonite World Conference release 

     

  • Bogotá, Colombia – Smiles and a warm reception greeted Mennonite World Conference (MWC) Executive Committee member Steven Mang’ana and Regional Representative (Central/West Africa) Francisca Ibanda as they visited Église Mennonite du Burundi (EMB).

    In May 2016, Mang’ana and Ibanda visited two Mennonite national churches who are not MWC members, to encourage further connection.

    They brought greetings from MWC, distributed copies of Courrier and worshipped together with EMB in Bujumbura, Burundi. Ibanda and Mang’ana also travelled to the EMB congregation in Gatumba where they were warmly welcomed.

    A series of mishaps prevented Mang’ana and Ibanda from making contact with leaders of the national church near Mbuyi-Mayi, DR Congo.

    MWC Regional Representatives build fraternal connections with churches in their region. These part-time volunteer staff are responsible for developing and supporting relationships with MWC member, associate-member and potential-member churches; local congregations; and MWC-related partners and agencies.

    Two new faces have joined the MWC Regional Representatives team since the Executive Committee meetings in February.

    Representative for Southern Africa is Barbara Nkala, a Brethren in Christ church leader from Zimbabwe. She was a plenary worship session leader at the 2003 Assembly, contributor to the Global Mennonite History Volume on Africa, and has served with the International Bible Society of Zimbabwe and Malawi.

    Representative for Latin America – Central America region is Willi Hugo Pérez, president of SEMILLA (Latin American Anabaptist Seminary), Guatemala. He has previously served as a professor of theology and of political studies, and as director of REDPAZ (Mesoamerican Anabaptist-Mennonite Network of Peace and Justice).

    —Mennonite World Conference release 

     

  • Report on Bearing Fruit, the Lutheran World Federation Task Force to follow up the “Mennonite Action” at the LWF Eleventh Assembly in 2010.

    Bogotá, Colombia – The reconciliation process between the Lutheran World Federation and Mennonite World Conference has created fertile ground for collaboration. A report summarizing the LWF-MWC action of reconciling with Mennonites over the condemnations in the Augsburg Confession aims to help LWF churches, pastors, seminaries and congregations to “implement the LWF commitment to teach differently about Anabaptists, especially to how they are described in the Augsburg Confession.”

    “The seeds of reconciliation sown more than 30 years ago, which flowered at the service of reconciliation in Stuttgart in 2010, are now truly bearing fruit,” says John D. Roth, MWC representative on the LWF Task Force and contributor to the document. “Mennonite and Lutheran pastors and church leaders will find lots of ideas for how they might engage each other at the local level.”

    The process is rooted in the dialogues started to celebrate the Augsburg’s Confession’s 450th anniversary. Recognizing that “ongoing theological differences could not be constructively examined until the wounds of the past were directly confronted,” LWF began a formal reconciliation process in 2003. The principal work of the study commission was to “write a common history of the painful relations during the sixteenth century.” This process was “itself an ecumenical act and thus already a contribution to reconciliation.”

    Both communions recognized “the need for communities as well as individuals to recognize when they are in need of genuine repentance and forgiveness.”

    “The work of this Task Force has been to respond to the commitments [on teaching Lutheran confessions, exploring unresolved issues, deepening relationship through common prayer and study and work for peace]….in the conviction that this work of the Spirit has not finished with our churches,” the report says.

    One “fruit” of this work is the dialogues on baptism; invited to participate by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity), MWC suggested LWF join as well.

    Bearing Fruit explores another point of on-going difference – civil authority and Christian participation in war – through an honest, respectful dialogue between Mennonite and Lutheran representatives.

    “Hard, even painful, work of re-evaluating the past has opened the way for new relationships,” the report declares. “Trees of hope have been planted. Now is the time to take care that the fruits continue to be nurtured and harvested.”

    Five hundred years ago, Anabaptists and Lutherans dealt differently with pressure from governing political powers and condemnations rose against each other, says Alfred Neufeld, Faith and Life Commission chair. “But that all is history. Today, the global church of Christ (Mennonites as well as Lutherans) realizes that the church is called to speak truth to the powers. That new global and transnational awareness frees us to stick closer together.”

    Addressing the process at an LWF event in Indiana, USA, MWC president Nelson Kraybill said: “Now it falls on us – pastors like you and me, leaders in all levels of our churches and regional bodies – to resolve that we will love and respect each other and find ways to collaborate for peacemaking and proclamation of the gospel.”

    Click here to see the entire Bearing Fruit report by LWF

    —Mennonite World Conference release