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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.
Oscar Siwali, Rev. Eulanda Mabusela, Rev. Storia Seitisho, Rev. Thoko Mbense and Sibonokuhle Ncube support SADRA's Women in Peacebuilding and other programs. Photo provided.
SADRA’s Women in Peacebuilding works to dismantle violence in South Africa
By Sibonokuhle Ncube and Oscar Siwali
South Africa
Bolivia anniversary
exactly 50 years after the first baptisms that launched Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Boliviana, nearly 700 members from the twelve churches and three church plants gathered to reflect on their history, celebrate their faith, and look to the future.