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This historical essay on the course of General Conference Mennonite missionary movement has been written to celebrate ad to reevaluate the achievements of that movement. This boo, while not directly addressing issues of missions theology or strategy, is written from a background of growing conviction that missions based on Anabaptist-Mennonite beliefs are, or ought to be, in some measure distinct from conventional Protestant models. This story represents a small fragment of Mennonite experience and a tinier fragment of the larger church in the world. It represents a North American point of view.

Copyright 1979

This collection of articles offers a glimpse of the variety of topics that arise around the conversation table of which Walter Sawatsky is part. He converses in the three languages used in this book and is comfortably at home in many countries and contexts in Europe, West and East, new and old. The authors write as representatives of educational institutions, scholarly associations, mission agencies, and churches, but also as friends and colleagues who have been encouraged and inspired by Walter Sawatsky. The collection is an expression of deep appreciation for a person who has contributed faithfully not only at countless conferences and public gatherings but also in many of Europe's hidden places.

Copyright 2011 Neufeld Verlag and Institute of Mennonite Studies, distributed by Herald Press

Contributors include (in order of appearance) John A. Lapp, Esther Epp-Tiessen, James C. Juhnke, Ronald J. R. Mathies, Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, Nancy R. Heisey, Stanley Green and James R. Krabill, Tobin Miller Shearer, Beth Graybill, Jennifer Keahey and Mary Littrell and Douglas Murray, Malinda Elizabeth Berry, Perry Bush, Robb Davis, William Reimer and Bruce Guenther, Theodore J. Koontz, Terrence Jantzi, Arli Klassen.

Copyright 2011 Cascadia Publishing House

Copyright 2010 Herald Press and Institute of Mennonite Studies

Copyright 2010 Masthof Press

Copyright 2003. Cascadia Publishing House

A major economic metamorphosis happened in the Paraguayan Chaco beginning in the 1960's. It followed thirty years of hardship and little progress for Mennonite immigrants from Canada and Mennonite refugees from Russia. The effort to settle an indigenous population greater than the Mennonite population in the succeeding thirty years makes this a curious event in world history.

In 1951 William T. Snyder, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Associate Executive Secretary, recruited a Mennonite couple graduating that year from Bethel College in Kansas, to manage a joint venture experimental farm in Fernheim Colony, Paraguay. It almost didn't work out. The Unruhs tried to disconnect from MCC after their first five year term expired, the working environment and living conditions so difficult; the Chaco was known as a 'Green Hell.' But they were moved to return and spent their working lives in the Chaco, 32 years altogether until illness intervened, along the way endearing themselves to the Mennonite settlers and to the native Indians.

Given the human yearning for precise explanations and an authoritative point of origin, the reader is taken by surprise encountering restraint, gentleness and straightforward reasoning in this gradual and complex evolutionary development. Leadership spontaneously rises to the occasion in a prosaic manner; scrupulously methodical, patient, nonassertive and nonjudgmental. This self-effacing style gave few persons in North America a clue-as it was happening-that the depth of the Unruh's imprint on Mennonite ethnicity in Paraguay might be significant or lasting.

Copyright 2009 Philip Roth

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