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• "Gifts balloon through children's mission efforts"
  ...e Mennonite Church participated this past year. Collectively, less than 12 children at Scottdale raised more than $900. ...nal material and giving projects for a specific international location. As children learn, they are invited to partner with Mission Network’s work in that lo
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• The Nurture and Evangelism of Children (Mennonite Church, 1955)
  The Nurture and Evangelism of Children (Mennonite Church, 1955) ...e race, and that it therefore applied to all human beings, both adults and children, but that after the age of accountability Christ must be received by faith.
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• Children of God / Born of God (in 1,2,3 John)
  ...rds its relationship with the Lord, the nation is described as “degenerate children” who deal “falsely with him [the LORD]” (Deut 32:4–6; cf. Isa 1:2, ...20), they also came to see themselves as his “siblings” and by extension “children of God.”
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• Simons, Menno. A Treatise on, and Scriptural Explanation of Excommunication, for the Benefit of All Pious and God Fearing Children
  ...planation of Excommunication, for the Benefit of All Pious and God Fearing Children ...planation of Excommunication, for the Benefit of All Pious and God Fearing Children]]
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• Simons, Menno. A Pleasing Instruction and Doctrine How All Pious Parents, According to the Scriptures, Are Required to Govern, Correct and Educate Their Children in A Pious, Virtuous and Godly
  ...rding to the Scriptures, Are Required to Govern, Correct and Educate Their Children in A Pious, Virtuous and Godly ...rding to the Scriptures, Are Required to Govern, Correct and Educate Their Children in A Pious, Virtuous and Godly .pdf]]
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• Simons, Menno. A Pleasing Instruction and Doctrine How All Pious Parents, According to the Scriptures, Are Required to Govern, Correct and Educate Their Children in A Pious, Virtuous and Godly
  ...rding to the Scriptures, Are Required to Govern, Correct and Educate Their Children in A Pious, Virtuous and Godly ...rding to the Scriptures, Are Required to Govern, Correct and Educate Their Children in A Pious, Virtuous and Godly .pdf]]
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• Simons, Menno. A Treatise on, and Scriptural Explanation of Excommunication, for the Benefit of All Pious and God Fearing Children
  ...planation of Excommunication, for the Benefit of All Pious and God Fearing Children ...planation of Excommunication, for the Benefit of All Pious and God Fearing Children]]
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• 1, 2, 3 John
  [[Children of God / Born of God (in 1,2,3 John)|Children of God / Born of God]] <BR>
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• Manoah Mennoniten Gemeinde, Loma Plata, Kol. Menno, Paraguay
  On Sunday, January 19, a children's story was told, a men’s choir sang some special songs, and also led the
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• On Observing 1992 (Mennonite Church, 1991)
  ===For Children=== ===For Children and Adults===
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• Colombian Mennonites share bread of life
  ...heir homework. When the volunteer cooks announced that lunch was ready, 60 children scrambled to find places at the table. The balanced meal awaiting them was ...member of Teusaquillo Mennonite Church, believes that in these safe spaces children can express their emotions and strengthen their self-esteem.
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• "Gifts balloon through children's mission efforts"
  ...e Mennonite Church participated this past year. Collectively, less than 12 children at Scottdale raised more than $900. ...nal material and giving projects for a specific international location. As children learn, they are invited to partner with Mission Network’s work in that lo
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• Anchor of Hope Anabaptist Fellowship
  .... It is an evangelical Anabaptist church in the Amish Mennonite tradition. Children of the congregation attend the Christian school at the Fairhaven church.
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• John R. Yeatts
  ...ation Series'' youth and adult curriculum and ''Jubilee: God's Good News'' children's curriculum. ...are members of Grantham Brethren in Christ Church and parents of two adult children, Marcus and Helena.
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• Clarence Jordan
  ...sist of nineteen adults and twenty-two children, including the four Jordan children. ...They heaped verbal abuse, and local children physical abuse, on the Jordan children. The community was under constant watch, even kicked out of their local Bap
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• Bolivian day care inaugurates new building
  ...provides childcare focusing on health, nutrition, education and faith for children from the surrounding neighborhood, has been housed within the Esmirna Menno ...er. The daycare is one outreach of the church to working parents and their children. Over the three-and-a-half-year building process, several Mennonite Mission
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• Stories
  * [["Gifts balloon through children's mission efforts"]]
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• Merlin Grove
  ...2. Grove, from Ontario, Canada, went to Somalia with his wife Dorothy and children in 1960. He taught and administered a school established by Eastern Mennon
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• Youth Venture group lends muscle, hearts to Bolivian building project
  ...ian Evangelical Mennonite Church), has provided responsible child care for children in Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s largest city. ...each day, and they constantly field requests from mothers to care for more children.
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  [[Children of God / Born of God (in 1,2,3 John)]] <br>
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• The Nurture and Evangelism of Children (Mennonite Church, 1955)
  The Nurture and Evangelism of Children (Mennonite Church, 1955) ...e race, and that it therefore applied to all human beings, both adults and children, but that after the age of accountability Christ must be received by faith.
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• "Ecuador Partnership creates place of peace for refugees"
  After decades of living in fear, and in order to protect their children from being forcibly inducted into military service, Ortiz and his wife, Mar ...es encountered dead bodies on their way to school, she said, “In Quito, my children sleep peacefully. I’d like to go back to Colombia, but I’m glad for the
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• Brethren in Christ Church Orissa, Inida
  ...ng Christians. This violence included the destruction of the Adivasi Grace Children's Hostel of the BIC church. In response to this violence, the BIC church h ...on (SPICE), through BIC World Missions program, the hostel provides school children from isolated rural areas the opportunity to live close by to where they at
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• River East Church, Winnepeg, MB, Canada
  ...ter during Education Hour. In connection with the Great Winter Warm-up the children from River East Church learnt how to tie comforters and helped to finish th
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• A Resolution against Interpersonal Abuse (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1992)
  ...nd superiority of some (overwhelmingly men) over others (usually women and children). Within that system, many Mennonite family members, employers and even chu ...or rape; we admit that there are Mennonite women who abuse their husbands, children or others;
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• Daniel Gerber
  ...to his parents, Daniel noted that "Christ taught love and that is what his children must do." Decades later a young man who knew Gerber in 1962 reported to th
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• Children of God / Born of God (in 1,2,3 John)
  ...rds its relationship with the Lord, the nation is described as “degenerate children” who deal “falsely with him [the LORD]” (Deut 32:4–6; cf. Isa 1:2, ...20), they also came to see themselves as his “siblings” and by extension “children of God.”
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• Black Kettle, Cheyenne peace chief
  ...to escape. She survived, but over half the one hundred dead were women and children. This battle is memorialized as a part of Colorado’s contribution to the ...s roughly forty men, twelve women, and six children. About fifty women and children were taken away as hostages. Less than two dozen US soldiers were killed as
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• "Ministries come of age in Ecuador"
  ...az, a collaborative project with neighborhood and school officials to help children learn positive values and conflict-resolution skills. ...the group grow from a small Bible study to a church of about 30 adults and children.
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• Miriwi Mennonite Church, Kenya
  ...traditional songs while clapping their hands, and the last one shows young children joining together with other church members in worship.
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• Lynn Jost
  ...College, Hillsboro, Kansas. He and his wife Donna are parents of two adult children.
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• Broken promise offers new life, a new church
  ...aders of a new church in a poor neighborhood, they are reaching out to the children of the local school where their fellowship meets. This outreach led to an i ...city of resources, they now rely on God to provide for a lunch program for children, a local health campaign and leadership training for two more church plants
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• "Couples commit to Christ, one another"
  “This had a great impact on the children and produced an atmosphere of insecurity and fear for the family,” wrote ...a threats forced Fernando Rodriguez to Ecuador. Two years later, Julia and children joined him in Quito. Julia found work as a domestic helper and Fernando wor
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• The Christian Family (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1962)
  ...ristian home and on the meaning of love and marriage. In order to do this, children should be taught reverently before adolescence the facts concerning the ori ...ge is participation in God's continued creation through the procreation of children. At the beginning of human history God commanded Adam and Eve to be fruitfu
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• Television Violence (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1977)
  ...ence portrayed on the television screens and the effect that this has upon children in our country and especially within the Mennonite church. Statistics and s ...e young," These studies on TV violence indicate the following effects upon children:
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• Traditional Old Order Mennonite Groups
  ...than not strictly adhere to the practice of the ban. Traditional Old Order children dress in plain clothes like their parents, and usually attend private churc
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• Wismar Articles (Dutch Anabaptist, 1554)
  ...But if their nonbelieving parents refuse to give consent, then these (the children) will submit themselves to the judgment of the congregation. We consider se
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• Hochma, Montréal, Québec, Canada
  ...th clean-up in which all are invited to participate. Sunday school for the children happens downstairs during the sermon + discussion time.
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• Mennonite Peace Missions Fellowship, Ngong, Kenya
  ...meal after Sunday church service. The church is also focused on preparing children and the youth to live as Young Anabaptist Peace Ambassadors [YAPA]. In cons
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• Christian Parenthood (Mennonite Church, 1961)
  ...e happiness of His people and for the procreation and Christian nurture of children. We regard Christian parenthood in marriage as a blessed opportunity and a ...nd satisfaction of the other, and together they endeavor to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Neither partner denies the marri
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• George R. Brunk III
  ...ard of elders. He was married to Erma Hess for forty-one years and has two children. After Erma's death, Brunk married Ruthann Miller, and together they have e
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• The Christian View of Marriage (Mennonite Church, 1959)
  ...for usefulness in the kingdom of God. Properly guided in a Christian home, children grow up to perpetuate a saving witness for Christ and the church. ...personality and new dimensions of love. In return, parents influence their children by the quality of marital relationships they bring into the family. The mut
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• Gordon H. Matties
  ...ried to Lorraine (Nix), whom he met at Regent College. They have two adult children. Gordon is a member of the River East Mennonite Brethren Church in Winnipeg
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• David Pätkau
  ...especially hard way. In September 1933 his wife Maria and his non-married children were declared enemies of the country and exiled from their village to a val ...an early release from prison and went to his family into their exile. His children did not recognize him. At the end of November 1934 he was arrested a second
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• August H. Konkel
  ...82. He lives in Paris, Ontario, with his wife Esther. They have four adult children, who have made their homes in Ontario, England, and Guatemala, and eight gr
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• Moderate Old Order Mennonite Groups
  ...e is also some variation in this. All wear plain clothes, along with their children, and the latter go either to church run or public schools.
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• David Martin Mennonites: 1917-1927
  '''List of people present at the First Communion Service''': (Children in Brackets)
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• Statement against Human Trafficking, Modern Day Slavery (Mennonite Church USA, 2009)
  * 2.2 million children are sold into sexual slavery each year. * 50% of victims are children under the age of 18.
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• Household Behavior (in 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus)
  .... Based on the premise that men are more rational and women less rational, children prerational (immature) and slaves irrational, these codes established an or ...l relationship between husbands and wives, masters and slaves, fathers and children. Second, the NT texts address the customarily inferior person in the relati
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• Eugene F. Roop
  ...er Roop, are members of the Richmond Church of the Brethren. They have two children and three grandchildren.
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• Chalmer E. Faw
  After their five children were grown and married, the Faws returned to Nigeria in 1965 and helped tra
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• Millard C. Lind
  ...iana, and husband of writer Miriam Sieber Lind. Together they reared seven children, one a foster son with disabilities in whose continuing care they cooperate
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• Anabautistas, Menonitas y Hermanos en Cristo de España
  ...food to refugees and working with orphaned children or mothers with young children. According to Mennonite missionary John Driver, the Spanish people they wor ...re sponsored by Burgos Mennonite Church to open La Casa Grande, a home for children in Benin.
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• Paul M. Lederach
  ...ry (Slagell), an elementary public school teacher, are the parents of four children. Until his death in January 2014, Paul was a member of the Norristown New L
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• Paul M. Zehr
  ...travel, and give themselves to the comings and goings of their four adult children (Karen, Marcia, Timothy, Daniel), their spouses, and six grandchildren.
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• Rudolphe Kasandji
  ...n’s choir, “Voices of Angels.” He married Régine Kakeziko and they had six children.
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• Sommerfelder Mennonitengemeinde, Mexico
  ...cause of new education laws in Manitoba and Saskatchewan that required all children to attend English-language schools. They established a colony, Santa Clara,
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• Explaining Why I Am a Mennonite, Melissa Fisher, April 1999 (United States)
  ...Goshen. Most of my friends from elemetary and junior high school were the children of Mennonite or Amish parents. My parent’s employers, most of my element ...laws in such a situation. It can bring about a certain complacency in the children, when they are isloated from anything other than Mennonite. It can also le
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• John W. Miller
  ...e from Virginia. The Millers reside in Kitchener, Ontario. They have three children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
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• Vieques Resolution (Mennonite Church USA, 2001)
  ...naval bases on the Puerto Rican mainland, and develop peace work with the children and youth of Puerto Rico; * Clean up contaminated land so children can play safely, farmers can grow healthy crops, and fisherman can fish in
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• J. Daryl Charles
  J. Daryl Charles is married to Rosemarie Müller Charles, and they have three children. At the time the commentary was written, Daryl and Rosemarie were members o
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• Elmer A. Martens
  ...d to Phyllis Hiebert Martens, herself a writer, and together they had four children. He passed away in September 2016.
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• Willard M. Swartley
  Willard was the youngest in a family of eight children growing up on a farm near the Delaware River on the rolling hills of Bucks
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• Waldemar Janzen
  ...katchewan, and later from Langley, British Columbia. They have three adult children, Martin, Hildi, and Edwin. Since their marriage in 1960, they have been mem
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• Timothy J. Geddert
  ...oth have been involved in leadership and in preaching. They have six adult children: five sons and a daughter. The fact that Tim was able to write his commenta
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• Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld
  ...ercolor painting are rare but treasured pleasures. Tom, Rebecca, and their children, Miriam and David, are part of First Mennonite Church, Kitchener, Ontario,
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• Terry L. Brensinger
  ...herself a spiritual director, reside in Fresno, CA. They have three adult children.
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• Gerald Gerbrandt
  ...rs of Bethel Mennonite Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba. They have three married children and four grandchildren.
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• Slavery (In Colossians and Philemon)
  ...kidnapping, sale of slaves in border areas, indebtedness, self&shy;-sale, children of female slaves, and military captives. In peacetime, when military conque ...on&shy;-law arrangements were allowed. Slaves had no legal rights over the children born to them. They worked in labor gangs in mines and fields and served in
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• High demand for Toba Bible study in Argentina
  Alfonsina and José Luis Oyanguren and their three children are members of Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Argentina (Argentine Mennonite
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• Ivan D. Friesen
  ...work for Justice and Peace. Ivan and Rachel are the parents of three adult children: Amal Ruth, Sena Margaret, and Philip Hilty.
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• Jacob W. Elias
  ...and Lillian now centers around the comings and goings of their three adult children. Laurel and her husband, Mark Crawford, live in Australia. Morlin resides i
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• Belonging before believing
  ...eir relationships and most of their outreach efforts, target families with children.
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• J. E. McDermond
  Jay and Wanda have two children, Malcolm and Duncan. Both sons are competitive swimmers, and so he spends c
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• The Household Codes (in 1 Peter)
  ...tions in life, such as slaves and masters, husbands and wives, parents and children, rulers and citizens, older and younger, leaders and learners. Goppelt note ...d.… Based on the premise that men are more rational, women least rational, children prerational (or immature), and slaves irrational—such codes portrayed the
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• What Does It Mean to Be a Mennonite in 1999? Kelly J Sauder, April 1999 (United States)
  men are socializing and the children are running to get in line so they can the food to digest. Lazily, the women get up to clean, the children go
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• Andreas Wurtz
  ...nd milking the family cow. The Lord blessed him and his wife with two more children Anna and Christian. But Andreas was not happy. He worried about his soul. W ...that forsakes houses, brothers and sisters, father and mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name’s sake, will get back a hundred times as much and i
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• The Theology of Christian Experience (Mennonite Church, 1957)
  5. <strong>Christian Discipleship</strong>. God desires His children to be faithful disciples of Jesus Christ, earnest followers of the Lord in ...with a local congregation of believers. In the church, believers and their children find a spiritual home. There they experience the joy of Christian fellowshi
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• Iglesia Menonita de Riobamba
  ...Church is made up of about 30 people, many of them professionals and with children. Beatriz and Daniel Escobar are serving now as associate co-pastors of the
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• Sermons at the Ouagadougou congregation of the Evangelical Mennonite Church of Burkina Faso recorded by Bruce Yoder
  |Law student, employee of MCC, works with children at the Mennonite congregation in Ouagadougou, has theological training
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• A Resolution on Male Violence Against Women (Mennonite Church, 1993)
  ...erbal abuse, psychological control, sexual harassment, battering wives and children, committing incest or rape;<br> 5. to provide safety for abused women and children;<br>
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• The Meaning of Being Mennonite, Janine M Martin, April 1999 (United States)
  ...e relatives. My playmates for this trip were to be my many older cousins' children. The girls all wore dresses and had long braided hair. There was something ...claimed and made my own. New symbols will surely come. I am sure that my children's Mennonite experience will be quite different than mine. I hope and pray,
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• Strasbourg Discipline (South German Anabaptist, 1568)
  ...ministers and bishops shall visit, provide for, and comfort the wives and children of those ministers who travel in danger or are in prison, so that the minis ...remembered and taken in before other servants, and shall be disciplined as children. <br>
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• Resolution on World Hunger (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1968)
  ...sons perish each minute from malnutrition and starvation. One-third of the children alive today will carry through life irreversible effects of food deficiency
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• Richard Rancap
  ...people. Many got engaged and had their weddings there, dedications of the children are held there. I was dedicated when I was a kid, in that particular church So eventually the Lord led us to talk to the eldest of the, the children. And we went to Manila and we talked about it. They have shared what the at
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• Kornelius Isaak
  ...o them. They had killed a Mennonite settler, Paul Stahl, and three of his children. The Ayoreos had a history of conflict with the Lengua Indians. Eventually
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• Markham-Waterloo Mennonite Conference
  ...al clothing in public. Women wear the white cap head covering and dresses. Children attend private church run schools, administered usually with the Old Order ...ixth Article (of the Dordrecht Confession) states that we become justified children of God ... after we have repented and amended our lives."<ref>Martin, Donal
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• Suzanovo Martyrs
  ...ttlement in that area. In first years, it was populated by himself and his children. Later, other Mennonites joined this Mennonite island amid Russian and Bash
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• Moses Massawala
  ...ther sees his girl friend. All his little brothers and sisters have gotten children. He has none. Given your daughter to such a man is like you are throwing yo ...to him. They consulted familiar spirits and wizard for my marriage to lack children and unfruitful. Many of them visited me in my home with their enchanters. O
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• Lamentations
  ...d in the poem, including that of a personified Zion (Lam 1:11c-16, 18-22), children (2:12), a prominent man (chap. 3), and a narrator. The poems appeal to God ...stroys palaces and the temple (2:5-6). God has killed adults outright, and children die of hunger (2:4, 11-12). The royal family has been sent into exile (2:9)
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• Resolution on the Ministry of the Women in the Church (Mennonite Brethren Church, 1981)
  ...he significance of a woman's high calling to be a wife and a mother to her children, and we should do all that we can to strengthen the family and to establish
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• The Jesus Tribe: Grace Stories from Congo's Mennonites 1912-2012 (A Project of Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission)
  [[Media:Two children and a wedding.pdf|Two children and a wedding]]
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• Statement on Abortion (Mennonite Church USA, 2003)
  ...ust health care system that would assist poor families in caring for their children. ...enges faced by families caring for developmentally disabled or handicapped children. We believe that the possibility of deformity or mental handicap is not suf
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• The Christian Soldiers of Serbia
  “Do you have children?” “Yes, I have seven children.”
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• Guidelines on Abortion (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1980)
  ...number of abortions being performed in our society. We believe that where children are not wanted, proper contraceptives should be used to prevent pregnancy. ...o-parent families who feel overwhelmed by the pressure of caring for their children. We make this commitment because we affirm that we are all part of the fami
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• Independent Old Order Mennonite Church
  ...[[Old Order Mennonites]], they utilize government programs and send their children to public schools. Smaller than their parent group, they nevertheless have
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• Iglesias Hermanos Menonitas de Colombia
  ...also built an elementary school for Colombians and a school for missionary children based on the American eighth grade curriculum. The services of a nurse and ...afer, Rev. David Wirsche, Annie E. Dyck, Rev. John and Mary Dyck (with two children), Kathryn Lentzner, Lydia Golbek, Mary I. Schroeder, Rev. Harry and Martha
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• Radical Journey participants march for peace
  ...the city center. Protestors wore white and included church members, school children, and individuals of all ages. The protest also included speeches from a num
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• Citizenship, Ancient and Modern (in Philippians)
  ...sed citizen community and could informally include the dependent women and children of an adult male citizen. After the conquests of the Macedonian Alexander t ...ban poor and peasant farmers) and slave classes, and technically women and children. Thus the population of any city and its surrounding dependent regions was
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• Race Relations (Mennonite Brethren Church, 1963)
  ...task is to spread the news of Christ and His salvation to men, women, and children, irrespective of any national or race makeup, so that souls may be won for
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• Olive Branch Confession (1627)
  What are the fundamental and unmistakable marks by which the children of God and members of Jesus Christ (being the church of God) can and must b ...giveness of sins, justification, and peace with God; and, because they are children of the resurrection, they shall not come into condemnation, but are passed
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• Why Am I a Mennonite? Kevin A Graber, April 1999 (United States)
  bible and being taught of God's love for all his children, I wondered about
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• Altkolonier Mennonitengemeinde, Mexico
  ...tened by new education laws in Manitoba and Saskatchewan that required all children to attend English-language schools. Many Old Colony members eventually left ...tened by new education laws in Manitoba and Saskatchewan that required all children to attend Englishlanguage schools. Many Old Colony members eventually left
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• Julius Kubassek
  ...religion. Four women who did his cooking, cleaning, and baking kept having children. Between the four of them they had fourteen, and when Julius discovered tha ...suffered much in Europe for refusing to bear arms. Frigyes had a wife and children. Sándor was a young, unmarried brother.
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• Koinonia (in Colossians and Philemon)
  ...4 in parallel with a synonym for <em>koinonia</em>: "Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he (Jesus) himself likewise shared the same things."
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• What Does It Mean to Be Mennonite? Anonymous, April 2011
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• Why Be Mennonite, Aaron J Short, April 1999 (United States)
  ...me use those for personal positive gains. I hope to someday also teach my children what it means to be Mennonite and live in such harmony to live with God and
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• Old Order Mennonite Church in Ontario
  ...changes in the ways they worshiped, made converts, and even educated their children, especially in urban areas. Indeed, it is no accident that the Old Order Me
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• The Bern Debate of 1538: Christ the Center of Scripture
  : Children belong to God.<br> : Therefore children have the Holy Spirit.
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• Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches Articles of Faith (1950)
  ...them (Acts 5:19,20); guide the worker to the sinner (Acts 10:3); guard the children, beholding the face of the Father for them (Matthew 18:10); they are eyewit ==== 7. Dedication of Parents and Children====
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• Beachy Amish Mennonite Fellowships, Belize
  ...aches the primary class at Sunday school. Meanwhile she is watching Paul’s children as they play a game of volleyball. At five p.m. she starts to prepare dinne ...aches the primary class at Sunday school. Meanwhile she is watching Paul’s children as they play a game of volleyball. At five p.m. she starts to prepare dinne
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• Mennonites are Strongest in Siberia
  ...d in Solntsevka just north of Isilkul boasted 130 baptised members and 160 children in 2008. That makes it the largest Mennonite congregation in the region of .... Yet number-wise they cannot compete with the 2.000 Mennonites (including children) of Western Siberia.
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• What Does It Mean to Be Mennonite? Stephanie Hollenberg, April 2011
  ...things would happen if, instead of holding onto our roots in fear that our children will be lost to the world, we used our roots as a catalyst through which to
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• Old Order Mennonite Groups in Ontario
  ...[[Old Order Mennonites]], they utilize government programs and send their children to public schools. Smaller than their parent group, they nevertheless have
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• Confession of Faith (Fellowship of Concerned Mennonites, 1990)
  We believe that God by His providence is concerned with the lives of His children, in everything working for their eternal welfare by hearing and answering t ...for through the sacrifice of Christ Jesus. Christ Himself assured us that children are in the kingdom of God.
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• Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Argentina
  ...sionaries focused their efforts on church development, education, care for children, and women’s ministries.<ref>Ernesto Suarez Vilela, 50th Anniversario de ...through its twenty nine years of existence helped three hundred and fifty children.
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• A Mennonite Identity in the Twenty First Century, Jonas H Yoder, April 1999 (United States)
  children, nine all together. Of that nine, there are only three that today
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• Teusaquillo Mennonite Church-Peter Stucky
  ...her and sent her flying. She was pretty much instantly dead. She left two children. They were, well they were more or less grown. [00:03:32.00] ...Well, of course, that raised immediate concerns with her family, with her children. And, of course, none of us knew. So these men in the car drove her, these
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• Elbing Catechism (Mennonite, 1778)
  That he is the true Father over all called children, in Heaven and upon Earth; that he is the Father of all believers, and that To praise and extol God Almighty, and minister to the good of his children. - Isa. 6: 1-3, Matt. 18: 10, Ps. 34:8.
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• A Christian Declaration on Peace, War, and Military Service (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1953)
  ...for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven." Romans 12:20 "If thine enemy hunger, fe ...pleship to Christ, earnestly search the Scriptures, diligently educate our children, build churches that are consecrated brotherhoods, permeate our communities
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• Proverbs and the Birth of Ethical Monotheism (in Proverbs)
  ...odness but "incense" or breads or animal sacrifices (Jer 7:17–19), or even children (1 Kings 11:5, 33; 2 Kings 16:3; 23:10; Jer 19:1–6; Ezek 16:20), or conso
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• Biblical Understandings Concerning Women and Men (Mennonite Church, 1975)
  ...as persons first, remembering that we have value because of who we are as children of God rather than because of the functions we perform as women or men. Soc ...nd deed the wholeness of singleness. This begins through instilling within children, from infancy on, positive principles and a valid range of adult alternativ
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• Australia
  ...nday school children to and from home, they also used the bus to transport children to club camp at Lake Mcquarie. They also began a “Care and Share” fruit
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• Fellowship of Mennonite Churches in Taiwan
  ...by buying buildings to hold church services in, offering Sunday school for children, offering English classes, evangelism meetings, providing kindergarten clas ...ch in Taiwan was started in 1954. The church met on the lawn of one of the children’s homes started by another christian group in Taichung. In 1955 the churc
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• Mennonite Confession of Faith (Mennonite Church, 1963)
  In His providence God is concerned with the lives of His children, and in everything works for their eternal good. He hears and answers their ...atoned for through the sacrifice of Christ. Jesus Himself assured us that children are in the kingdom of God.
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• Mennonite Brethren Church Confession of Faith (1975)
  ...l things to serve His eternal purpose. In mercy and grace He adopts as His children all who repent of their sin and trust in Jesus Christ as their Saviour and We believe that God, through the Holy Spirit, has endowed His children with gifts for Christian ministry. Each member lovingly ministers to the ot
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• Where Are We Now? Anonymous, April 1999 (United States)
  away and that would fit the needs of their children as well. The Mennonite
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• Iglesia Evangelica Menonita Hondureña, Honduras
  ...the MAMA project was and still is to construct a wall of protection around children who were born into poverty.<ref>Honduras MAMA Project, “Global Family: ed ...Honduras, the MAMA Project works to provide not just proper nutrition for children in poverty, but also proper hygiene through the distribution of toothbrushe
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• Resolution on Abortion (Mennonite Brethren Church, 1975)
  ...for man, delegated the sacred responsibility for transmitting life to our children within the structure of marriage. That arrangement was instituted to provid ...inappropriate sexual attitudes and ineffective sexual impulse controls in children, so also inter-marital emotional distance may result in an ill-advised preg
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• Satan (in 2 Corinthians)
  ...In almost all the texts in which his name appears in the OT, Belial begets children like himself. These lawless persons think and act like their progenitor "Be
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• Iglesia Evangélica Menonita del Perú
  ...very classes and through PROMESA providing a loving and safe space for the children of alcoholics to attend school.<ref> Ron Shultz, “The promise of educatio ...children influenced by the Mennonite gospel through its school. As these children continue to grow and develop, the church will also continue to grow and dev
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• Gereja Injili di Tanah Jawa, Indonesia
  ...Javanese Christians for evangelization and taught at a school for Javanese children, Jansz developing a network that would eventually see expansion into GITJ ( ...Society. He establishes himself at Jepara and opens a school for Javanese children (Shenk)
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• Herem, “Devoted to Destruction” (in Joshua)
  ...ve victory to Mesha, king of Moab, who is to devote Israelites—men, women, children, and livestock—to destruction for the god Chemosh. The Mesha Inscription
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• What Does It Mean to Be Mennonite? Kajungu Mturi, April 2011
  ...s. When we read from the Bible, it says that the kingdom of heaven is for children. This is to say, infants don’t have sins. A central understanding of ba
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• A Resolution on Health Care (General Conference Mennonite Church U.S. Assembly, 1992)
  ...e being served by the system. Over 34 million people, including 12 million children, lack health insurance which would provide them with access to care.
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• Fraternidad de Iglesias Evangélicas Menonitas de Nicaragua
  ...day morning from 9:00 to 12:00. She said there are typically between 60-70 children on any given week, though they have had as many as 140 before. Largaespada ...its future. She spends most of her time working in an outreach program for children in her neighborhood.
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• Disciples and Discipleship (in John)
  *Howard-Brook, Wes. ''Becoming Children of God: John’s Gospel and Radical Discipleship''. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1
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• A Mennonite by Providence, Amos M Kratzer, April 1999 (United States)
  ...y Anabaptist/Mennonite heritage and by God’s grace I will pass it on to my children. I do not know God’s ultimate plan for my life, for the Mennonite church,
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• Matthew
  ...hildren to follow Jesus, but parents can neither repent on behalf of their children nor force them to become true disciples. When rulers required all their sub ...hildren in Matthew 19:13-15 provides a basis for the prayerful blessing of children and parents in worship.
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• The Middelburg Confession of Hans de Ries (1578)
  ...e oaths and were, therefore, poor citizens. They do not even baptize their children! They, the Mennonites, said that no Christian could partake in government. ...fore I believe and have taught with Holy Scripture that young and innocent children born of unbelieving parents who die in their youth are saved by the shed bl
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• Ecclesiology (in 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus)
  ...manager (1 Tim 3:4-5), and the persons chosen as deacons must manage their children and households well (3:12). In 2 Timothy 3:6, Timothy is warned about unhea
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• Hermeneutics and Discipleship
  ...ures alone and in the ‘hermeneutical community’, to teach it to his or her children and to all who would listen, and to pray for true spiritual understanding. ...s Moses and produces Pharisees and scribes; the filial is Christ and makes children of God?’<ref>J. C. Wenger, ed.-transl., ‘Two Kinds of Obedience’, ''M
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• Love Ethic in John
  *Howard-Brook, Wes. ''Becoming Children of God: John’s Gospel and Radical Discipleship''. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1
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• Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference Confession of Faith (2001)
  ...for elders, and blessing single persons. Parents are called to teach their children to know and serve God. Christians are called to live as brothers and sister ...who have come to God through faith in Jesus Christ will desire to live as children of God. Since God has saved us through Jesus Christ, our complete loyalty a
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• Why I Am Mennonite, Anonymous, April 1999 (United States)
  tents like the Israelites. As children, we also attended our church camp,
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• Online Anabaptist-Mennonite Library
  ...ngelism of Children (Mennonite Church, 1955)|The Nurture and Evangelism of Children (Mennonite Church, 1955)]] (Mennonite Church, 1955)
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• Proverbs
  ...s are often addressed to a “son” or “sons” (1:8; 4:1). These are not small children but young men on the verge of adulthood, like the "young man" so vividly de ...-22; Matt. 5:43-48), taming the tongue (15:1, 4; Matt. 5:21-26), educating children (22:6; Matt. 7:12-27), and, above all, God's wisdom and care over all creat
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• Abortion (Mennonite Church, 1975)
  ...bout becoming adoptive or foster parents to care for battered and unwanted children. It could provide more teaching, counseling, and other services regarding a
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• The Way of Christian Love in Race Relations (Mennonite Church, 1955)
  ...agencies of the church (as schools and colleges, hospitals, and homes for children and the aged, and the various church boards) if they have not yet done so, 5. That in work with children, as in the case of summer Bible schools and summer camps, for example, an e
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• Confession, or Short and Simple Statement of Faith (Rudnerweide, Russia, 1853)
  ...me, not avaricious, one who rules well his own household, who has obedient children, with constant integrity. He must hold to the Word which is sure, and be ab ...o the church in those days about three thousand souls." So also now, those children who earlier were far away, when they have come so far that they are able to
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• Nihon Menonaito Kirisuto Kyokai Kaigi, Japan
  ...stor there when he died. After he died his sons (Yamada and his wife had 5 children--3 boys and 2 girls) collected his sermons and edited them into 4 books.
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• Eberhard Arnold
  ...ent arranged for Nazi teachers to be sent after Christmas to take over the children’s education. In response, Eberhard arranged for all the school-age children to leave Germany soon after New Year. Eventually, all were reunited in a ne
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• Hosea
  ...ollection of material focusing on the significance of Hosea's marriage and children, but in chapters 4–14 it is difficult to discern larger thematic units. T ...ot say that Gomer bore them for Hosea (cf. 1:3), and 2:4-5 claims that the children were conceived promiscuously. Hosea names the second child, a daughter, "No
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• Alianza Evangélica Menonita
  |First children of Russian Mennonite refugees are baptized by Nelson Litwiller at the MCC c
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• Hugo Donatti
  Hugo Donatti lives, together with his wife and children, in La Paz, a satellite town near Montevideo. He works in the state-owned
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• Governmental Oppression and our Christian Witness (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1977)
  ...ionaries who are guests in other societies that they walk circumspectly as children of light -- peaceably, respectfully, sensitively, but also courageously. We
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• Declaration of Christian Faith and Commitment with Respect to Peace, War, and Nonresistance (Mennonite Church, 1951)
  ..., we can live the life of holy obedience and discipleship to which all the children of God are called. ...your enemies . . . do good to them that hate you . . . that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven"; "Resist not him that is evil"; "Whatsoe
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• Recreation (Mennonite Church, 1961)
  ...Oftentimes father and mother see little of each other and, indeed of their children, who, when not in school, may be engaged in organized play activities or, w
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• Hutterite Martyrs of 1918
  ...avenworth. They started out from their homes at night, leaving their small children behind them. But a railroad agent mistakenly gave them tickets to the wrong
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• Why Am I a Mennonite? Rachel Geissinger, April 1999 (United States)
  Sunday school, but my favorite part was playing with the children at
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• Convención de las Iglesias Evangélicas Menonitas de Puerto Rico, Inc.
  ...describe the living situation as, “To know Castañer you must... watch the children, shabby and barefoot but proud and happy, chattering their way along the ro ...its commonwealth status, it is easy for missionaries to return with their children to see the island they once worked in. One Aibonito member shared that many
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• Kenneth Miller
  When we arrived in Kenya with our five children in the fall of 2000 for a four-month stint as temporary replacement mission ...ke: “These white people and their churches are devil worshippers who steal children and suck their blood.” “The missionaries get people to come to church b
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• Kanisa la Mennonite Tanzania
  ...Migire were teachers. Each morning from seven to ten o’clock they taught children and workmen in reading, writing, arithmetic, and Bible. Each afternoon Mos ...while for women (wives) classes was on Bible, sewing, health, and care of children. ALL students were comefrome Shirati: Zedekia and Susana kisare, Yakobo and
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• Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church
  ...ded by providing more one-on-one mentoring to young people and making sure children have a relationship with the church.<ref name="Way" />
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• Mennonite Brethren Church Document of Secession (1860)
  ...g. But Thou, O Jesus, equip faithful living witnesses, who will direct Thy children and the work of Thy hands to Thee! Amen.
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• Meserete Kristos Church, Ethiopia
  ...sk.<ref name="ldie" /> It has been shown that divorcing multiple wives and children causes them suffering and increased susceptibility. Once a polygamous conve
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• The Anabaptist Ideal and a Funk Band, Luke D Miller, April 1999 (United States)
  children. A band has the unique opportunity to make an example of their
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• Report of the Dress Committee (Mennonite Church, 1913)
  ...nnection with men's fitness for public service (1 Timothy 3:11), and their children have much to do in making their ministry either profitable or unprofitable
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• Dordrecht Confession of Faith (Mennonite, 1632)
  ...ent children, heed, follow, and practice what the same contains, to be His children and lawful heirs; thus excluding no one from the precious inheritance of et ...h faith we obtain forgiveness of sins, are sanctified, justified, and made children of God, yea, partake of His mind, nature, and image, as being born again of
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• Genocide and Sacred Violence (in Joshua)
  ...res intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group” (Resolution 260 [III] A, Dec. 9, 1948). Si
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• Evangelical Mennonite Conference Confession of Faith (1994)
  ...fe come about through repentance and faith in Christ. His atonement covers children until they reach the age of accountability (2 Samuel 12:22-23; Matthew 18:1
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• Statement on Immigration (Mennonite Church USA, 2003)
  ...bilities of immigrant sponsors, the rights of battered immigrant women and children, and the rights of workers in employment raids. Contact Rebeca Jimenez Yode
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• Preaching the Bible in the Congregation
  ....” This larger congregation is generally inter-generational, including the children and possibly the grandparents. It thus serves as a common setting and provi ...is the only right and proper Seed from which truly believing and obedient children of God are born.</blockquote>
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• Esther
  ...e, but no less important. Fortunately the destructive effect of shaming on children (and adults) has become more visible, but we struggle to know how to deal w ...to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children” (3:13).
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• Statement of Our Position on Military Service (Mennonite Church, 1917)
  ...servant of the Lord must not strive" (2 Timothy 2:24). Believing that the children of God should imbibe and practice these teachings, we hold that Christian p ...e life, in the full exercise of our religious convictions; that we, as His children, may be faithful to and contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to t
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• Beachy Amish Mennonite Fellowships (Ireland)
  ...4 and lived there until 1776. In that year he moved with his wife and four children to what is now Somerset County. (Beachy, 1954).
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• Teaching the Bible in the Congregation, by Richard C. Detweiler
  ...st-conversion aspects of teaching the Bible in relation to the teaching of children. Our perception of the child with regard to our purpose in teaching '''<spa ...to dependence on Him as God’s way, truth, and life. Teaching the Bible to children as a nurture function, therefore, is oriented progressively to affirmation,
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• Affirming Our Faith in Word and Deed (Mennonite Church, 1979)
  God's forgiveness and His desire for reconciliation with His children are expressed in the parable of the loving father fully accepting the prodi ...in practical living. The process by which faith is kept new, passed on to children, shared with the world, and adapted to new situations must be guided by the
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• Declaration of Commitment in Respect to Christian Separation and Nonconformity to the World (Mennonite Church, 1955)
  ...stian nonconformity to the world is based upon the fact that God calls His children to a life of holiness, and to conformity to the character of Jesus Christ, <h4>Courtship and Marriage</h4> In contrast with people of the world the children of God are to be pure and holy in life. The Word of God calls particular at
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• Genesis
  Christians know and love the stories of Genesis. We tell them to our children and preach them from the pulpit. Novelists and poets allude to them in thei ...ham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob, Leah, and Rachel as well as their children. The intention of God to create a community/family both blessed in itself a
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• Martyrs Mirror
  ====Children's Stories==== | Schlabach, Amy. ''Times of Trial: Poem Stories of Anabaptist Martyrs for Children.'' Sugarcreek, OH: Carlisle Press, 2011. ||
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• A Church of Many Peoples Confronts Racism (General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Church, 1989)
  ...s Near and Far: a Mission Course of Study to Interest, Inform, and Inspire Children.</em> Newton, KS : General Conference Mennonite Church, 1986-1989.
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• Kleine Gemeinde zu Spanish Lookout, Belize
  In 1975, after generations of teaching and speaking German to children in schools, English became the primary language. Because English is the fir 1975 After generations of teaching and speaking German to children in schools, English became the primary language. Because English is the fir
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• Statement of Doctrine, Conservative Mennonite Conference (1991)
  ...the Holy Spirit. Those who receive God's gift of salvation by faith become children of God, justified in their relationship to God, sanctified in their walk an
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• Anabaptism Sunday School Curriculum for Youth
  ..., including war among nations, hostility among races and classes, abuse of children and women, violence between men and women, abortion, and capital punishment ...Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and the goo
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• Jonah
  ...ders picture a whale swallowing Jonah, a picture reinforced by the popular children's story, ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'', by the Italian author Carlo Collo ...errifying violence? What about the lives of the men and women tortured and children whose lives ended in their mothers’ womb? In the interest of justice, the
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• Schleitheim Confession (source)
  Brotherly Union of a number of children of God concerning Seven Articles. ...e in all tribulation until the end, Amen, be with all who love God and all children of light, who are scattered everywhere, wherever they might have been place
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• Menno Simons' Encounter with the Bible
  ...hat the Spirit continues his work, for he teaches the gospel truths to his children, and “writes them upon the tablets of our hearts with the gracious finger ...it would work in such a way that there would be unity and accord among the children of God. Marpeck was equally clear on the matter of unity and his emphasis i
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• John
  ...ear his coidentity with God as well as the identity of readers of faith as children of God. ...ure of true discipleship and contends that the Pharisees are not Abraham’s children but that the devil is their father, the atmosphere becomes increasingly hea
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• Ruth
  ...ntrolled by the availability of water. To find adequate pasture, the older children of the village often took the herds some distance away from the village. A ...ight be called on to marry a widowed family member to provide security and children for the deceased. If another member, who was “first in line” as go'el,
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• Jesus Village Church, South Korea
  ...church members. Since the JVC was only 12 years old in 2008, most of the children in the church were still not old enough to be eligible for military service
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• Salvation and the Destruction of Enemies (in Joel/Obadiah/Micah)
  ...ee human flesh ripped apart, mothers cradling the lifeless bodies of their children, elderly persons in despair because their homes are gone, or desperate fami
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• Iglesia Evangélica Menonita de Guatemala
  ...ctive activity. There are classes for youth and adults and activities for children too young for formal musical instruction. Isabel Garnica, co-coordinator o
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• Mennonite Brethren Church Confession of Faith (1902)
  ...thout blame before Him in love: having predestined us unto the adoption of Children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. Eph 49. The '''children''' of believers (Acts 2:39) shall continually be brought before the Lord in
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• Galatians
  : Freedom of God's Children
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• A Christian Declaration on the Authority of the Scriptures (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1962)
  ...work, but for the revelation of God already given in His dealings with the children of Israel interpreted by the prophets of God. He regarded the Old Testament ...the Old Testament it was primarily through God's great deliverance of the children of Israel out of Egypt that He revealed himself to us. Christ is the full r
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• Convención Evangélica Menonita Paraguaya
  ...garejo attended seminary after several years of preaching and with several children in school, sending a message that theological training is important in the
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• Ephesians
  ...wever, there are clearly “us” Jews and “you” Gentiles; wives and husbands, children and fathers, slaves and masters are exhorted to live within what appear to ...about transformation. The dualistic language thus serves not to remove the children of light from the world of darkness, but rather to hone their sensitivities
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• Philadelphia Praise Center
  ...Summer Service Workers help plan and execute the camp, which serves local children and resembles a Vacation Bible School but with more of an emphasis on peace ...s from institutional racism, and that racism needs to be dismantled so all children can have an equal education.
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• The Confession of Faith (P.J. Twisck, 1617)
  ...which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second Psal ...g to God. He is called the real and earnest of the inheritance of all true children of God. He who blasphemes this Spirit, must never expect forgiveness. Chris
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• Deuteronomy
  ...s, leaders and others are included, men and women are included, adults and children are included, even those not actually present are included. Perhaps most in ...the last half of the Shema, with its emphasis on teaching the faith to our children (388; Deut 6:6-9).
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• Jeremiah
  ...gage in surrogate religion by building high places, even sacrificing their children to idols (7:30). The people are adulterers; they lie and deceive and do not ...together dark. Many are the repeated calls to repent. “Return, O faithless children, I will heal your faithlessness” (3:22; cf. 4:1). There is hope if his pe
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• Joel
  ...when Israelites are sold into slavery. God’s revenge entails the innocent children of enemy peoples being ripped from their homes and enslaved in a distant la
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• Statement of Doctrine (Conservative Mennonite Conference, 1991)
  ...the Holy Spirit. Those who receive God's gift of salvation by faith become children of God, justified in their relationship to God, sanctified in their walk an
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• The Relation of the Old and New Covenants in Pilgram Marpeck’s Theology
  ...se of the will results in sin, and the atonement of Christ covers innocent children and idiots.<ref>According to John Lawson (''The Biblical Theology of Irenae ...f promise but not a syllable of the Old Testament indicates that they were children of God in the same way as those under the New Covenant are (''Conf.'', 185f
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• Job
  ...blessing the Lord—perhaps through clenched teeth. The deaths of his adult children are presented simply as the culmination of a series of senseless catastroph
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• Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective (1995)
  ...the love of God is poured into our hearts (Romans 5:5). We are adopted as children of God (Galatians 4:6-7) and experience new birth into the family of God. T ...of God. That is, they were children of God. When they sinned, they became children of the devil and lost their place in God's family (1 John 2:29-3:10). Throu
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• The Way of Peace (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1971)
  Ephesians 5:1, 2: Since you are God's dear children, you must try to be like him. Your life must be controlled by love, just as
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• 1 & 2 Thessalonians
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• Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, Articles of Confession (1896)
  ...wrong to take members away from a church of God. As long as such scattered children of God believe that they have been baptized to a true organized church of G
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• Brethren in Christ Church Society-Bharatiya Khristiya Mandali, India
  ...IC Church through the BICWM-sponsored SPICE program. Luckily the staff and children all managed to escape unharmed.<ref name="spiceattack"> "SPICE Hostel Attac
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• Mennonite Air Missions, Guatemala
  ...ow more rapidly as health care improves. When it is less difficult to have children and keep them healthy, the church will naturally grow. The bottom line is t
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• Communauté des Eglises de Frères Mennonites au Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  ...er school in Nyanga called Ecole de Moniteurs, and a school for missionary children in Kajiji, Ecole Belle Vue. <ref name="asah" />
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• Bharatiya Jukta Christa Prachar Mandali, India
  ...t, and Missionary efforts in India can focus on providing education to the children in families of poverty to help alleviate economic disparity.
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• The Use of the Law (Mennonite Church, 1981)
  (3) Is litigation necessary to protect children, the aged, the poor, or other persons with limited power?
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• A Short Confession of Faith by Hans de Ries (1618)
  ...ies to his being born again or not, not by natural means. Hereby we become children of God, spiritual-minded, righteous and holy. We believe and teach that thi ...ood news of the gospel are thus commanded by Jesus to be baptized, but not children.
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• Mennonite Articles of Faith by Cornelis Ris (1766)
  ...tantly increasing English reading portion among our church members, to our children, and to many others to whom a better knowledge of the teaching of our churc ...istinction are reconciled with God (John 3:36) and received and adopted as children (John 1:12), for then would conversion (Mark 1:15), regeneration (John 3:3)
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• The Hermeneutics of the Anabaptists
  ...claim to be the mentors of a movement, for they began as the intellectual children of Luther and Zwingli. Those men, both of them scholars, did in a genuine s ...is the New Testament equivalent of circumcision and thereby belongs to all children born within the covenant family, that the teachings of the New Testament it
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• 2 Peter
  ...ievers are participants of the divine nature, yes, and are called gods and children of the Most High, 2 Pet 1:4; Acts 17:28; Ps 82:6, and are in the world as C
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• Waterlander Confession of Faith (1577)
  ...entire human race from its power, which is death. Therefore we know of no children who are to be damned because of it, before the time when man deliberately w
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• Teaching the Bible in the Congregation, by Ross T. Bender
  The task of teaching the Bible to children is essentially that of creating biblical literacy. It includes telling them
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• Canon: Creative Biblicism as a Hermeneutical Principle
  ...ueaths life on the “little '''<span style="color: red">&rarr;168</span>''' children” who are repeatedly addressed (1 Jn. 2:1,12, 18,28; cf. 3 Jn. 4).
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• The Holy Spirit In the Life of the Church (Mennonite Church, 1977)
  ...ust not forget that God is sovereign in all of His dealings with us as His children. We cannot dictate to Him. Although He is utterly faithful in His purposes
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• Biblical Interpretation In The Life of the Church (Mennonite Church, 1977)
  ...ts of birth, geography, race, or sex. The community does not depend on its children for its existence in the next generation, but introduces them to the same L
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• Justice and the Christian Witness (General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Church, 1983)
  ...0). In a similar way Paul asserted that it is only people of faith who are children of Abraham (Galatians 3:7). ...to worship the emperor, participate in military service, or baptize their children in the state church. In many parts of the world today, conscientious object
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• Amos
  :We are children of God's peace in this new creation,
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• Leviticus
  ...2). However, a non-Israelite may be bought and held permanently, and their children will also belong to their owner (vv. 45-46). Israelites who have become the
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• Joshua
  ...y’s focus on individual responsibility (7:24-25; Deut 17:2-7; 24:16, where children are not to suffer the consequences of their parents’ actions).
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• Anabaptist Hermeneutics: The Letter and the Spirit
  ...e saved, unless he sell it and give it to the other (as they say the poor) children of God and similar statements, as has been the manner of the two harmful an
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• Exodus
  ...arly belonged to the stock of Bible stories taught to Anabaptist-Mennonite children. To this stock belonged Israel’s oppression in Egypt, Moses’ preservati ...cient Israel marriage was primarily a social arrangement with security and children in view. Therefore the seducer, having jeopardized the chances of a woman w
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• The Pre-eminence of the Bible in Mennonite History
  ...lvinist, Guido de Brez)” (I: 26). “(The martyrs) would read the Bible like children; they studied deeply not only in the Gospels and in the Sermon on the Mount
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• The Anabaptist Vision (1944)
  [The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife.]... They are the children of peace who have beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into
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