Mennonite World Review

Articles : Africa

May 13 issue

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  Photo by Travis Tice/EMM

  Kenyan pastime

  NAIROBI, Kenya — Travis Tice teaches kids baseball in a country where few play the game. He works with the Kenya Redsox, a Nairobi-based organization that ministers to at-risk youth through recreational sports.

  Tice, who serves with the Eastern Mennonite Missions GO! program, connects with kids who live in a nearby slum community and street kids who fend for themselves.

April 15 issue

• Computers, books collected for Tanzania college

  Collecting books, computers and other educational supplies, Pennsylvania Lutherans and Mennonites are working together to support a Christian university in Tanzania.

March 4 issue

• EMM trio care for abandoned children in Kenya

  LITEIN, Kenya — Though Litein doesn’t show up on most maps, three young women serving through Eastern Mennonite Missions’ GO! program have found their way to this hilly corner of rural Kenya.

Feb. 4 issue

• In Uganda, a second life for West’s secondhand clothing

  KAMPALA, Uganda — “Come here, cheap dresses!” Yiga Yo­ka­na yells to potential customers from his stall at Kampala’s Owino market, one of Africa’s largest outdoor shopping hubs.

Dec. 24, 2012 issue

• West African church commissions first missionaries

  CATEL, Guinea-Bissau — Catel Mennonite Church joyfully commissioned five men as missionaries to five villages Nov. 18. The commissioning marks a milestone in the development of the 7-year-old church.

Dec. 10, 2012 issue

• Congolese displaced again

  AKRON, Pa. — After a rebel group overtook the city of Goma in eastern Congo, Mennonite Central Committee is supporting efforts to care for the needs of displaced people.

Nov. 12, 2012 issue

• Ethiopian evangelism rallies draw thousands

  AWASSA, Ethiopia — Evangelistic rallies planned by Ethiopian Mennonites as part of a Holy Spirit in Mission Conference Sept. 18-26 drew thousands of people.

Oct. 29, 2012 issue

• EMM goes back to future

  Sometimes the best way forward is to go back to the beginning. Eastern Mennonite Missions President Nelson Okanya and board chair Joe Sherer did just that by spending 16 days visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia in September.

Sept. 3, 2012 issue

• Congo church: from refugees to church planters

  MBUJI MAYI, Congo — Prime-time television news, amplified guitar riffs and deep-throated traditional drums announced to the city of Mbuji Mayi that Communauté Evangélique Mennonite au Congo (Mennonite Evangelical Church of Congo) celebrated its 50th anniversary July 23-27.

• Denomination ordains first woman pastor

  MBUJI MAYI, Congo — Communauté Evan­gé­lique Mennonite au Congo (Mennonite Evangelical Community of Congo) voted to ordain women as pastors in 1993. Nearly 20 years later, the decision became reality when Mimi Kanku Mukendi was included among the 16 pastors ordained July 26.

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