A Pilgrimage of Faith: The Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia and North America, 1860-1990It is now [1990] one hundred and thirty years since the birth of the Mennonite Brethren Church and therefore time for someone in that church to take a backward glance to see how things have developed. Who better to do this John B. Toews. His life spans well over half of those years and he has experienced much of what he writes. "JB" as he is affectionately known by both students and colleagues is a patriarchal figure in the Mennonite Brethren Church. Born in Ukraine, the Russian Revolution and its aftermath were the crucible that shaped his youth and young adult years. After studying in Western Europe, Toews immigrated to Canada in the late 1920s. Much of his life has been in Mennonite Brethren educational institutions in Canada and the United States. During ten years as Executive Secretary of the Mennonite Brethren Board of Missions he traveled widely and came to know Mennonite Brethren people around the world. In between educational and mission administrative responsibilities he pastored in Kansas and California. After retiring from the presidency of the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary he became the founding Director of the Historical Commission of the Mennonite Brethren Church.
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... expression of a movement , Protestants could see the " development " of the church only in terms of decline and corruption . From that point onward , church history has , as often as not , been used to justify the historian's own branch ...
... expressed deep pain about the conditions of the church of which he was a part : Friend ! brother ! father ! or whatever else you wish to be to me who am as yet a very inexperienced person in the ser- vice of the Word and the ways of God ...
... expressed itself in the forced resignation of elders Cornelius Warkentin and Heinrich Wiens over the issue of ... expression of a growing new mood was the Ohrloff School Society , which established a private school in the early 1820s to ...
... expressed his father's satisfaction that the adherents of this group were the most ardent church- goers ... expression in emotional excesses . Their ethical lapses were inconsistent with their profession of faith . Leaders of the new ...
... civil and religious leader- ship of the Mennonite community . It recognized the provi- dence of God who had assigned a place for the Mennonite Brethren as a renewal movement . It expressed deep repen- 14 A PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH.