A Pilgrimage of Faith: The Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia and North America, 1860-1990Kindred Productions (c) 1993, 1993 - 376 páginas It 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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... influence has circled the globe . A careful study of our history helps us understand the phenomenon of repeated revivals , many conversions and church growth , as well as times of inward emptiness , legalism and apostasy . Only as we ...
... INFLUENCES TOWARDS REVIVAL The course of history demonstrates that God from time to time visits his people anew with a gracious movement of the Spirit . First , a period of gloom sets in and weariness invades the hearts of men and women ...
... impetus towards 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.
... influenced by pietistic group meetings in Prussia . 32 According to P.M. Friesen , " Gnadenfeld became the center for a religious move- ment of greater warmth , the magnetic center for those who called themselves ' brethren ' long ...
... influenced their spiritual renewal , they chose not to become identified with it , preferring instead to remain clearly committed to sixteenth - century Anabaptism , primarily the Dutch stream as interpreted by Menno Simons . 13 A ...