Tag: Missions

Juana Garcia, a pioneer leader of the Brethren in Christ Church in Cuba, passed away recently at age 93.

In lieu of the August 2016 edition of our journal, Brethren in Christ History and Life, the Historical Society is publishing former missionary Grace Holland’s autobiography, Planting Seeds: A Missionary Story. We are always grateful when people who have kept careful records of their lives…read more

The centennial welcoming banner. Photo by Dwight Thomas. Last month, the Brethren in Christ Church in Zambia held its General Conference at Sikalongo Mission. The highlight of the conference was the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of…read more

This past August, about forty-five people gathered at the beautiful Inn at Ragged Edge near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, for a reunion of people associated with Youngways Hostel, the former home for missionary children in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Former missionary kids…read more

The name Makanalia is one I’ve known for almost as long as I can remember. My father (Lewis Sider) had a very special relationship with this woman he first met in 1954 when she was a young girl living in…read more

Theologian Roger E. Olson reflects on the shifts within Evangelicalism. I try to assess his argument vis-a-vis the Brethren in Christ.

This story is too good not to share again! How one Brethren in Christ scholar rediscovered a long-lost document from Zambian history.

Children’s ministry visual aids — like flannelgraph — entered into the the Brethren in Christ historical memory through one woman: long-time missionary Pearl (Brehm) Wolgemuth, whose innovative-for-its-time efforts are the subject of today’s Photo Friday post.

A few Brethren in Christ-related links that caught my attention over the past weeks.

In September 2014, the Brethren in Christ Historical Society will publish a new book of Brethren in Christ biographies. This post — the third in a series — focuses on author Annaruth Osborne and explores her writing about one of…read more

Most readers know Ernest L. Boyer, Sr. as an educational pioneer, Messiah College supporter, and son of the Brethren in Christ Church. But did you also know that he briefly served as a missionary pastor in the 1950s?

A few Brethren in Christ-related links that caught my attention over the past weeks.

Today’s Photo Friday features one of the earliest images depicting Brethren in Christ cross-cultural missionary efforts — and some of the implicit Western cultural assumptions these pioneers carried with them in their work.

A few Brethren in Christ-related links that caught my attention over the past weeks.