It was Tuesday, December 31, the last day of the year 2019, when Sangmin Lee called me with excitement to report news of his amnesty. Early in 2014 Lee was sentenced to 18 months in prison for refusing, on the basis of his faith, to complete his mandatory military service. Although Lee was freed on Keep Reading...| Bearing Witness
During World War II, in a French Mediterranean town far from her home in Goshen, Ind., Lois Mary Gunden Clemens risked her own safety by helping save the lives of Jewish children during the Holocaust. In 1941, during World War II, Gunden Clemens left her job as a professor of French at Goshen College and Keep Reading...| Bearing Witness
Angela and Rolf Kruse and their five children (four daughters and one son) have lived on Gesses mountain in Ethiopia among the Gumuz people for the past five years. They recently returned to Canada after 17 years of ministry in Ethiopia among Sudanese refugees and tribal people. Angela shared this story with Bearing Witness as Keep Reading...| Bearing Witness
Juana García, a pioneer leader of the Brethren in Christ Church in Cuba, passed away on January 20, 2017 at age 93. In the 1950s García worked alongside Howard and Pearl Wolgemuth, who served as Brethren in Christ missionaries in Cuba beginning in 1953. In 1960, when Wolgemuths were advised to leave Cuba following the Cuban Revolution, García and Keep Reading...| Bearing Witness
All Mennonite World Conference member churches who participated in the recent Global Anabaptist Profile (GAP) survey were asked the following two questions: “If the government required military service, what would you do?” and “Do you agree or disagree that it’s okay for Christians to fight in a war?” For the Convención de las Iglesias Evangélicas Menonitas de Nicaragua (CIEMN), Keep Reading...| Bearing Witness
"If we love the people who don't believe as we believe, it will show love."| Bearing Witness
"Christians are taking on this role of witnessing publicly---even paying the cost of being arrested---in order to witness to compassion for refugees."| Bearing Witness
"Though we are already Mennonites in name, we are learning how to be real peacemakers and what it means to reconcile."| Bearing Witness
"How do we connect the life and worship of the church to our actions? Tony’s death was a call for people, to realize that we need to be doing even more. "| Bearing Witness
“We don’t understand why it happened, but we do know that God was with Al through all this time.”| Bearing Witness
