Mennonite World Review

Articles : Mission and church planting

May 13 issue

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  Photo by Tilahun Beyene

  Indonesia pioneer partnership bears lasting fruit

  In 1978 Luke and Dorothy Beidler moved to Kalimantan, Indonesia — where the Dayak people live along wide rivers in a great tropical forest — as pioneer missionaries with Eastern Mennonite Missions.

  In a groundbreaking partnership between an Anabaptist mission agency in the global South and two from the West, the Mennonite Mission Board of Indonesia (PIPKA), EMM and Mennonite Central Committee united to send the Beidlers and others from Indonesia and the U.S.

April 15 issue

• Church plant targets Utah County

  UTAH COUNTY, Utah — A new church plant in Utah County is on schedule to become the second U.S. Mennonite Brethren church plant this year.

Dec. 24, 2012 issue

• Minnesota couple plants Spanish-speaking church

  Church life became too comfortable for Judy and Steve Harder.

Aug. 20, 2012 issue

• Congolese celebrate century of God’s faithfulness

  TSHIKAPA, Congo — About 50 young musicians walked nearly 100 miles carrying their drums, luggage and a few babies to attend the centennial celebration of Communauté Mennonite au Congo (CMCO, Mennonite Community in Congo) July 16-22.

March 5, 2012 issue

• Texas church plant grows from search for deeper faith

  When Karen and Steve Mascho of Gladewater, Texas, first encountered Mennonites in April 2010, they never imagined that 15 months later they’d be planting a Mennonite church in their own community.

Feb. 20, 2012 issue

• MB church planters plan for 60 new churches in 10 years

  Mission USA, the domestic mission agency of the U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, hopes to plant six congregations this year — the biggest one-year expansion since the days of MB immigration from Russia in the late 1800s. It’s hoping to do that 10 years in a row.

Feb. 6, 2012 issue

• Hope for future trumps angst, guilt of the past

  CHICAGO — Nelson Okanya cried out to God to grant desperation to the North American Mennonite church.

Jan. 9, 2012 issue

• Building in Spain is a first for Protestants

  With the help of a North American grant, an Anabaptist congregation in Burgos, Spain, is constructing a new building, a rare move for a Prot­estant church there.

Nov. 14, 2011 issue

• Hope for orphans in Ukraine

  In much of Ukraine, hopelessness among adults has darkened the future of its youth.

Aug. 1, 2011 issue

• Young leaders gather to focus on mission, God’s call

  MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa. — Leonard Dow, pastor of Oxford Circle Mennonite Church in Philadelphia, recently challenged a group of young church leaders interested in mission to lead people along the Anabaptist path.

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