| Dancing through Thistles in Bare Feet: A Pastoral Journey | View shopping basket |
| by Gary Harder |
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| Gary Harder reflects on 42 years as a pastor. With deeply
personal stories, he recalls the surprises of God's mysterious healing
work. Amid the chaos of people's lives, Harder finds God is often
present in unexpected ways. Harder creates a candid and lively
conversation between the experience and reflection; between the
biblical witness and the stark reality of conflict in the church;
between crisis and opportunities for ministry. Copyright 2008
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| That Amazing Junk-Man: The Agony and Ecstasy of a Pastor's Life | View shopping basket |
| by Truman H. Brunk |
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| This book is a collection of nearly 75 stories and sermonettes
drawn from Brunk's forty years in the ministry. The stories reflect
Brunk's desire to help churches become open and welcoming, instead of
exclusive and shunning. The story of Cap'n Jack, the oysterman living
"outside the walls" of the Mennonite colony and welcomed into Brunk's
home church at Warwick River Mennonite Church, provides a memorable
illustration of this. Copyright 2007 Cascadia Publishing House | |
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| One Came to Stay | View shopping basket |
| by Veda Boyd |
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hardcover, 314 pages, $14.50
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| Local author Veda Boyd of Hershey, Pa., tells the touching story
of her life as a foster child in a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Family. You will need a few tissues as you walk on her journey through
life from the innocent wide-eyed child with sparkly white hair in a
foster home to a beautiful teenager with more than her share of
admirers to a an early and difficult marriage.
With all her varied relationships, would anyone ever say, " I
love you. I'll never leave you!"? Yes someone does finally say that-
and you won't believe who it is! A book that will touch your life and
even change it! | |
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| My Early Years: An Autobiography | View shopping basket |
| by Robert S. Kreider |
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| Robert S. Kreider has moved at the center of the American
Mennonite story for three quarters of a century-as an administrator,
scholar, church leader ad impassioned activist-and did much to shape
its very course. This insightful autobiography places readers inside
the personal, familial, and churchly dynamics of Mennonite life in the
first half of the 20th century. Copyright 2003. | |
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| Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest | View shopping basket |
| by Rudy Wiebe |
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| This book holds Rudy's memoirs of growing up through age 12. His
immigrant family cut a farm out of stony bushland in remote
Saskatchewan. They hand-dug their well, climbed a ladder to their beds
under the rafters, farmed with horses and traveled by sleigh on the
frontier. Stories and singing and food from their native Ukraine and
Poland held them and filled their bodies and souls. More than 45 black
and white photographs. Copyright 2007 Good Books | |
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| A Usable Past?: A Story of Living and Thinking Vocationally at the Margins | View shopping basket |
| by Paul Peachey |
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paperback, 256 pages, $16.95
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| Christendom or believers church? Here a twentieth-century
Anabaptist ponders this and other key questions while telling his 90-
year life story. As he records, Peachey was shaped in the free church
tradition and by encountering a traumatized post-World War II Europe.
From that vantage point, he and Mennonite colleagues saw strengths in
their heritage and developed concerns that their denomination's focus
on professionalization and institution building risked hiding the
Anabaptist light under a bushel. This led to the "Concern" movement,
whose themes still resonate in Peachey's quest to discern whether his
is "a usable past" able to offer fruitful perspectives on contemporary
trends. Copyright 2008 Cascadia Publishing House | |
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| Tears of the Rain | View shopping basket |
| by Ruth Ann Stelfox |
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| For Wayne and Ruth Ann Stelfox, the war-torn city of Monrovia,
Liberia, was a drastic change from rural Alberta, Canada,. But they
and their five children accepted t he challenge of a tow-year mission
assignment in West Africa-and found themselves immersed in a world of
starving children, extreme poverty, disease, human sacrifice,
witchcraft, and violence. In t he midst of this darkness, they
found joy, love, lasting friendships, and hearts open to the light of
God's love. They saw beauty in t he scarred landscape around them, and
the tears of heaven in the torrential African rains. As they worked to
help change the lives of those around them, their own lives were
changed, and the miracles they witnessed increased their awe of the God
they had gone to Africa to serve. Copyright Christian Aid
Ministries 2006 | |
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| Markings/My Own: Musings on the Gospel of Mark | View shopping basket |
| by Omar Eby |
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| Neither commentary nor traditional meditations, Eby's Markings
are a spiritual memoir. His musings on 70 episodes or texts in the
Gospel of Mark blend intellectual inquiry with confessional worship.
They meld poignancy, whimsy, grit, doubt, sorrow, and inspiration.
Anyone attending to the care of her or his soul will find nurture here.
Eby's project from the practice of old spiritual disciplines: Bible
Study, meditation, prayer, contemplation, silence, writing. Using the
Gospel of Mark for his own Markings, Eby explored the Gospel through
the grid of his forty years teaching literature at the college level,
reading and writing, listening to music, walking in the orchard and
woods, living in Africa, heeding one wise woman, rearing children,
stumbling towards God. Then, under the influence of a given text and
personal memory, he sat down and wrote, yielding these personal musings
on a spare but elegant Gospel. | |
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| Iraq: A Journey of Hope and Peace | View shopping basket |
| by Peggy Gish |
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paperback, 280 pages, $17.95
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| Peggy Gish went to Iraq in an attempt to prevent war. But on
March 20, 2003, the bombs began falling on Baghdad. Here is Gish's
moving story of the Iraq before, during, and after the 2003 war. Told
as her personal story, Gish makes real the horrors of war and a
passionate vision of peace. Copyright 2004 Herald Press. | |
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| A Way Was Opened: A Memoir | View shopping basket |
| by Ruth Brunk Stoltzfus |
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| Ruth Brunk Stoltzfus improvised a remarkable career as a
churchwoman, family speaker, business leader, and pastor. Feeling a
call to support Christian families, she began a nationally syndicated
radio program. Ruth spent her life in ministry to God and the church.
Copyright 2003. | |
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| Anxious Armageddon: A Call to Partnership for Middle Eastern and Western Christians | Details... |
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| Back Porch Memories: Family Stories and Diaries of Harry Zimmerman Rutt and Ida Musselman Nolt | Details... |
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| House Calls and Hitching Posts: Stories from Dr. Elton Lehman's | Details... |
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