GLOBAL MENNONITE COMMUNITY EMBRACED US THROUGH JACK & IRENE SUDERMAN

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The visit of Jack and Irene Suderman in Mindanao last 13-20 February 2014 was to us an embrace of our global Mennonite community.

Our whole team have been immersed in the Haiyan disaster response since the 9th of November 2013. Our intense activities include:

We were physically tired, psycho-spiritually drained, and needing lots of hugs.

Jack and Irene —

They also challenged us to think through our idea of power and leadership development based on the life and work of Jesus:

OUR UNDERSTANDING OF POWER ACCORDING TO JESUS

Power, as we understand in the life and work of Jesus, is the Spirit-energized, transforming capacity we receive to actively advance the purposes of God–love, justice, mercy, peace–in and through us, as we incarnate ourselves among the people we love even at the point of giving our own lives, yet not taking other human lives, for them.

 

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OUR GLOBAL PEACE COMMUNITY

We are sent by Mennonite Church Canada Witness in partnership with our international community.