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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... result of liquor burns to their throats . The ministers were aware of these drunkards , yet the offenders were allowed to remain members of the church and were admitted to partake of the Lord's Supper . 16 The spiritual poverty of the ...
... result , the cultural leadership became largely the responsibility of the church elders , most of whom were uneducated and ill equipped for the task . Peter M. Friesen likened their incom- petent leadership to " a blind leader of the ...
... result of small prayer circles of those who were discontented with conditions in the larger church . Reimer was concerned to reform the Russian Mennonites in accord with the traditions of the six- teenth - century Anabaptist church and ...
... reform.30 Education was thus a major influence in the reform of a people in cultural and religious stagnation resulting from cen- turies of isolation . James Urry has furnished important evi- 9 A PHENOMENON OF RENEWAL.
... result when personal salvation is stressed without corresponding emphasis on the biblical implications for a life of faith . The church there , under the jurisdiction of Elder Jakob Hildebrand ( 1795-1867 ) , experienced a spiritual ...