Last week I wrote about how the Mennonite Heritage Village Chortitz housebarn needs some work done on its foundation. Fortunately, the foundation can be fixed and then the central clay oven heating system can be used again!
Sometimes physical events are symbolic of deeper meanings. In the house floor of Mennonite Heritage Village’s Chortitz housebarn there is a growing bulge.
The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is turning one hundred in 2020 and Mennonite Heritage Village, together with MCC, is celebrating by looking back at the last century.
After a while they turned to us, “If God has sent us a message, we want to hear it. Our women are willing to teach you how to become Senufo so that you will know how to share this message with us.”
In southwestern Congo where I was born the sandy, palm-lined avenues of Kamayala frame the rural home of the majority of my childhood.
I arrived in Cuauhtémoc with my head full of the stories I’d read about the Mennonites in Mexico in the pages of the newspaper Die Steinbach Post.
Have you ever been asked to fill in your nationality or ethnic identity for a survey? It makes me think… how many generations of a family are required to live in a geographical location before it can be called home?
In the last 30 years there have been numerous Canadian Mennonite tour groups visiting Poland. Many think of only visiting the places Mennonites lived in the Ukraine, but it is highly recommended to see Poland along the way.
Visiting Mennonite sites around the world is on my bucket list and with this series of articles I hope we can take a kind of tour of these places together.
This week Tom Hanks is celebrating his Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement in entertainment. He is also celebrating over 31 years of marriage to his wife Rita Wilson. In the ever-changing environment of Hollywood he has defied the odds.
