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Beyond Ourselves is published by Mennonite Mission Network, which envisions every congregation and all parts of the church being fully engaged in mission -- across the street, all through the marketplaces, and around the world.
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Prophetic PursuitWire car races in Philipstown, South Africa, provide opportunities to break down 400-year-old barriers to peace and friendship. PrayFor everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. |
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Anna Liechty Sawatzky writes a blog entry on her laptop computer.
What does it look like to serve?
Mission workers are blogging about their experiences. Get a glimpse of what's happening on the ground from their perspective.
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Choosing life over deathIn Mthatha, South Africa, Anna Sawatzky shares how a time for mourning turned into healing and understanding. God in the driver's seatTerry Witmer shares a story of prayer being answered while traveling away from her family's home in La Mesa, Colombia. | It's in the lovingAlayna Hyde, a Los Angeles Dwell participant, shares how she's learned, "the success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving." |
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In service, Lord, to theeService is multifaceted—sometimes a single isolated experience, but, at its best, a life to be lived. Over time, everyone— the “server” and the “served”—has been changed for the better. | Where do you get your stories?Poet Muriel Rukeyser suggests that “the universe is made of stories, not atoms.” Rukeyser’s observation reminds us that meaning is found in the stories that surround those physical particulars. |
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