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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.
Congo’s growth exceeds resources

The quest to learn more about how Mennonite Church USA congregations and agencies find resources for their ministries brought visitors from the Democratic Republic of Congo to the U.S. in April and May.

Partners reunite in Ecuador and Colombia

QUITO, Ecuador — Members of U.S., Ecuador and Colombia Mennonite churches gathered for a time of learning and fellowship in March.

Mission leader served Congo in dangerous time

GOSHEN, Ind. — James Edwin Bertsche, who led Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission after serving 25 years in the Democratic Republic of Congo, died Feb. 27 at Greencroft Health Care after a three-month illness. He was 91.

English teachers sought for China

Mennonite Partners in China is seeking people who want to engage in conversations about culture and faith.
Ghanaian leader urges celebration, urgency for gospel

ELKHART, Ind. — An African seminary president preached and taught in northern Indiana Mennonite agencies and congregations in February.

Group charts hope for a multicultural future

LEESBURG, Va. — More than 60 racial-ethnic leaders in Mennonite Church USA gathered Jan. 25-27 to encourage unity, celebrate multicultural progress and outline ways to help the church thrive as its membership becomes more diverse.

Small booklet has big influence around the world

Palmer Becker’s short-term mission trips abroad have been like conducting a traveling mini-seminary.

Argentina ministry touched both indigenous and infirm

Esteban and Susana González Zugasti cherished their visits with the indigenous communities in the Chaco region of Argentina, where they, along with their three children, are mission workers.