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I suspect that the 'organizers' of that congregation, and others like it, are wanting to 'protect' it from being over-run by 'native' English speakers (where the original 'target group' becomes a minority, just as they are in the larger society). I kinda' know how that can happen, from our own expe...

I have had a number of friends including seekers in the Akron area. When I first started attending my old church in Hartville, I was, like many new seekers, very eager to invite people and invited friends, who in turn invited other friends. It was about 30 minutes away. Fast forward to the present ...

When my wife and I left the States to do Bible translation in Brazil (1985), we were financially supported by not only Several Beachy Amish-Mennonite congregations, but also other Plain Mennonite congregations ('Plain' in that men wore the 'straight cut' suit, women wore cape dresses and the tradit...

When my wife and I left the States to do Bible translation in Brazil (1985), we were financially supported by not only Several Beachy Amish-Mennonite congregations, but also other Plain Mennonite congregations ('Plain' in that men wore the 'straight cut' suit, women wore cape dresses and the traditi...

Not in this thread, but I've mentioned before how my people struggled to understand what response God wanted them to have during the time in which alternate armies, each representing opposing tentative governments, gained control of the areas in which they lived. This switched back and forth, someti...

My understanding of the teachings of, for instance, Menno Simons, is that a division of the militarism of the OT and the non-violence of the NT was based on a teaching of the fullness of time appearance of Jesus, the Christ, with the physical battles of the OT being symbolic of the spiritual battles...

They are. They are just not interested in following the American evangelical formula for doing so. From what I've read of their newsletters, neither does All-Nations Bible Translation, In what ways have you seen them not wanting to follow the American Evangelical formula? The "pray the prayer ...

My first encounter of working with people who were living out of their car, or in a tent at a camp ground was during the late 70's, in Tulsa. The manufacturing market in places like Detroit had crumbled, and these people stayed there, trying to find work until they lost their homes, and had only en...

My first encounter of working with people who were living out of their car, or in a tent at a camp ground was during the late 70's, in Tulsa. The manufacturing market in places like Detroit had crumbled, and these people stayed there, trying to find work until they lost their homes, and had only eno...

How is the daily average of $2.00 per day calculated? How does their analysis include the amount of food and other commodities acquired through direct work (such as cutting and processing timber for one's own buildings, hunting & gathering for food stuffs, and growing crops and meat sources 'fro...