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Why Spain?: Rationale for European Missions

By Josh Garber | Posted on February 19, 2017

Josh and Alisha Garber are Mennonite Mission Network workers who have served in Lithuania and are making the transition to a new ministry in Barcelona . “Why Spain” is the question provoked in the title. Why indeed?  The following blog post and accompanying video are a reflection on the meaning of mission work internationally and […]

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Cultural Exchange and Applied Anabaptism: A Journey From Indonesia to the USA

By Heri Purwanto | Posted on February 5, 2017

We, as Anabaptists, should place Jesus Christ at the center of our faith, community at the center of our lives, and reconciliation at the center of our work.1 As part of the Anabaptist community in Indonesia, I want to be able to implement these three key principles in my own life, though it is often […]

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Effective strategies for building missional churches: lessons learned in multicultural mission collaboration

By Nelson Okanya | Posted on February 3, 2017

This article is an adaptation of a Plenary Presentation the author gave at for the Council of International Anabaptist Ministries in Columbus Ohio, January 2016. Lessons from Multi-Cultural Missions Collaboration For about two centuries, Western missions operated on a paradigm that can be described as “from the West to the rest.” In this paradigm, I […]

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Book Review – Winds of the Spirit: A Profile of Anabaptist Churches in the Global South

By Titus Guenther | Posted on January 10, 2017

Happy New Year, dear Anabaptist Witness readers! Our first blog entry of 2017 is a  book review by Titus Guenther examining the relationship between the Pentacostal and Anabaptist traditions. Consider it a fortaste of our upcoming spring issue, “Following the Holy Spirit in Mission”. We wish you a blessed and spirit-filled new year!  Winds of […]

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Serving Colombia from Indonesia

By Rut Asari | Posted on November 10, 2016

I am grateful that I was born and raised in Indonesia, the world’s largest island country situated in Southeast Asia near Malaysia and the Philippines. Growing up, I always thought missionaries were mostly white people from the United States, Canada, or Europe; I never realized someone from Asia could serve God in this way. However, […]

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What is Witness? A Reflection on Article 10 of the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective

By Jamie Ross | Posted on November 2, 2016

The following post from Anabaptist Witness Co-Editor Jamie Ross is part of an ongoing series of “roundtable posts” published in The Mennonite reflecting on the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective.  Ross’s contribution is one in a series of reflections on Article 10: The Church in Mission. Other contributors include Glenn Balzer, Neal Blough, […]

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It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

By Andi O. Santoso | Posted on October 12, 2016

I enjoy music, and I love Boyz II Men. Of their songs, one of my favorites is “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday”. Even when we’re excited about the future, it can be difficult to let go of the past. This was my experience as a participant in the discipleship training program of […]

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Hispanic Heritage Month

By H. J. Recinos | Posted on September 25, 2016

The anthropologist Clifford Geertz explains that one of the most significant aspect of the human condition is that “we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life, but end in having lived only one.” For me, this one life began unfolding on Home Street in the South Bronx. My immigrant parents, […]

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The Impossible Invisibility of the Poor

By Katerina Parsons | Posted on September 20, 2016

Roberto Sosa, a Honduran poet, wrote: “The poor are many: that is why it is impossible to forget them.” Yet somehow, daily, we manage to do the impossible. I am living in one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere where, according to the World Bank, one-third of the people live in extreme poverty, […]

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Introducing the new Anabaptist Witness student assistant

By Jacob Liechty | Posted on September 12, 2016

We’re pleased to introduce the newest member of the Anabaptist Witness team, Jacob Liechty. Here is an introduction in his own words. Glad to have you on board, Jacob! My name is Jacob Liechty, and I’m excited to be joining the Anabaptist Witness team as a student assistant. My own engagement with mission in the […]

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