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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... nite Brethren Studies ( Fresno ) , and student assistants Rhonda ( Warkentin ) Langley and Joanne Klassen , worked to system- atize the documentation . The years of research and final publication of this vol- ume were made possible ...
... nite Brethren " " must be qualified with the recognition that commitment to Scripture was a legacy of the early Anabaptists . In fact , the Mennonite Brethren commitment to Scripture sounds , at points , like an echo from the sixteenth ...
... nite Brethren writings with reference to salvation were John 3 : 3-7 , 2 Corinthians 5:17 , and 1 Peter 1:23 , which spoke in terms of the " new birth , " a " new creature , " and " old things passing away , " making all things new ...
... nite area administrative office to make the case for the right of the Mennonite Brethren to exist as a separate fellowship in the larger Mennonite community , also commended their com- mitment to responsibly disciplining their own ...
... nite Brethren . The ardent application of this assignment , as they understood it , to the various situations of life , gave rise to tension and intolerance in their relationship to the wider Mennonite community.19 Members who did not ...