By Anita Hooley Yoder
ISBN-10: 1513801422
ISBN-13: 9781513801421
ISBN-10: 1513801430
ISBN-13: 9781513801438
The saga of Mennonite women’s firms is a narrative of fight and triumph, productiveness and misgivings, questions and celebrations. through the 20th and twenty-first centuries, women’s teams have provided Mennonite ladies a way of serving others via stitching garments, laboring over quilts, rolling bandages, and packing university kits. Women’s teams have additionally supplied Mennonite girls the chance to check their abilities as leaders and provides voice to callings they felt in a church that has no longer constantly valued their presents for ministry. during this shiny portrait of Mennonite ladies united states, Anita Hooley Yoder paints with either wide and sophisticated strokes the one-hundred-year historical past of a firm that nurtures neighborhood church women’s teams and connects Mennonite girls around the world.
By situating Mennonite women’s organizational background in the higher currents of yank and Canadian non secular lifestyles and tradition, Hooley Yoder illuminates the missionary impulse, non secular aid, theological friction, and cultural variety of the Mennonite women’s stream. From the conventional stitching and quilting circles to an rising worldwide community of Anabaptist ladies, Mennonite women’s firms have provided areas for connection, dialog, and nurturing of every other’s gifts.
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