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Participants on a Just Peace Pilgrimage to the lands of Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation were greeted by Pahto (Mt. Adams), a sacred mountain at the center of Yakama cosmology. Photo by Bruce Kuhns.
Stories from 2025
Sawatzky and Teguh Karyanto, STAKWW professor and Sawatzky's host, share conversation over a meal. Photo provided.
Gift guide
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Obituary
Bob Tolle
Advent reflection
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MVS
While some units have access to a vehicle, every group gets well accustomed to local public transportation and biking as means of getting around. The 2023-24 MVS Tucson unit on a weekend biking outing around the city. Left to right: Hannah Nuest, Deborah Yoder, Magdalena Wenger, Nely Cotuc, and Ally Weaver. Photo by Hanna Nuest.
Retirement
From back left, Daniel Goldschmidt-Nussbaumer, a Mennonite Board of Missions doctor from France, and Saturnin Afaton, a Beninese lawyer. From front left, Rebecca Assani, an Apostolic Church educator, and Lynda Hollinger-Janzen begin a river crossing in a pirogue (dugout canoe) during a community health trip to Gbeko in 1987.
History series
Anicka Fast (third from left) listens as Felo Gabriel talks with fellow biography-workshop writers in Kinshasa, DRC about choosing their biography subjects. Photo provided. 
Hitsuji House
Kazutomo Aratani Epp and Architect Masayuki Nagata
Urgent prayer request
Mennonite Christian Hospital set up a medical station at the church in Matai’an Village to provide care for the disaster-affected residents.
Board member
Donald and Shirley Kempf at Follow Jesus 25
New appointment
Juan Sebastian Pacheco Lozano, regional director for Latin America for Mennonite Mission Network.