Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Muria story	Lawrence M. Yoder	This book tells the story of the Chinese Mennonite churches of Indonesia, today called the Muria Church (Gereja Kristen Muria Indonesia, GKMI). This is the first Mennonite church outside Europe and N…	OL12696165W
Mennonites in the Cities of Imperial Russia	Helmut T. Huebert	When the Mennonites first migrated from Prussia to South Russia in 1789 to form the Chortitza Colony, then again in 1804 to establish the Molotschna Colony, they moved onto the land. They were not al…	OL12750457W
Alternative Service in Canada During World War II	John Aron Toews	This book describes Alternative Service, a service which developed as a new phenomenon in Canadian history during World War II. It was a form of national service that the Canadian Government required…	OL13458388W
Transplanted German farmer	Christian Iutzi	"Here is a splendid, firsthand account of nineteenth-century Amish Mennonite immigration--not an uprooting, but a transplanting from one context to another. Christian Iutzi's journals and log book pa…	OL15522298W
Just plain pickled to death	Tamar Myers	When Magdalena Yoder receives a wedding gift with a corpse in it, she suspects that one of the many unwanted guests who have come to her inn for the wedding is the murderer. An Amish Bed and Break…	OL16023523W
Centennial history of the Mennonites of Illinois 1829-1929	Harry Franklin Weber	The author was a Mennonite and a graduate of two theological seminaries. The editor describes this as a, “comprehensive work of cyclopedic character, which includes in addition to material of a gener…	OL16327335W
Heirs and Joint Heirs	Paul D. Wiebe	The story of the Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church in India ties in with the great stories of the church around the world and Indian civilization. It begins with German-speaking MB missionaries travelin…	OL16487634W
The Mennonite Brethren Church Around the World	Abe J. Dueck, ed.	The Mennonite Brethren Church was born in the midst of religious and social turmoil in mid-19th century Russia. Before long it became established in North America, then in India, and soon in various …	OL16494542W
A stranger's gift	Anna Schmidt	Hester Detlef, local Mennonite volunteer coordinator for disaster relief In Pincraft, Florida, defied the Old Order Mennonite tradition of limited education to get her college degree. Still single, H…	OL16624637W
Die kleine geistliche Harfe der Kinder Zions, oder, Auserlesene geistreiche Gesänge	Mennonite Church	Psalter of 30 metrical psalms (22 with music); followed by hymnal of 475 hymns with separate title: Sammlung alter und neuer geistreichen Gesänge; and "Zugabe" of 24 hymns.	OL16685306W
The Mennonite Brotherhood in Russia,1789-1910	Peter M. Friesen	This book is the English translation of P.M. Friesen's authoritative history of the Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia, *Alt-Evangelische Mennonitische Bruederschaft in Russland (1789–1910) im Rahme…	OL17081597W
Committed to World Mission	Victor Adrian, ed.,Donald Loewen, ed.	At the urging of twenty international delegates at the North American Conference in Reedley, California in 1984, the first Mennonite Brethren World Missions Conference in Curitiba, Brazil was born. A…	OL17235656W
Searching the Scriptures	David Ewert	This book is a collection of newspaper columns written between 1992 and 2000 by Professor David Ewert for the German-language publication, Die Mennonitische Rundschau, answering readers' questions …	OL17598689W
The Church in a Pagan Society	David Ewert	This is a collection of studies written by Prof. David Ewert on the New Testament letter called I Corinthians. They were first published in the Mennonite Brethren Herald—beginning October 10, 1980,…	OL17756035W
Hierschau	Helmut T. Huebert	This book, written with the general reader in mind, provides an interesting and valuable microscopic view of a small nineteenth-century Mennonite village that becomes representative of all the Mennon…	OL17910947W
Fields of grace	Kim Vogel Sawyer	With their eldest son about to be drafted into military service, Reinhardt and Lillian Vogt decide to immigrate to America with their three sons and Reinhardt's adopted brother. After tragedy strikes…	OL18770062W
At Powerline and Diamond Hill	Lee Snyder	"How does a Mennonite farm girl, whose "closed" Oregon community prescribed a limited role for women and distrusted education, end up a university president? The author explores the paths that opened…	OL18794216W
The Betrayer's Fortune: Menno Simons (Trailblazer Books #13)	Dave Jackson	In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1543, after his mother is arrested as a heretic, fifteen-year-old Adriaen Wens flees with the Anabaptist preacher Menno Simons and must decide whether to turn Simons in to sav…	OL19636388W
The divide	Jolina Petersheim	Nearly six months have passed since Leora Ebersole's Old Order Mennonite community fled to the mountains for refuge after an attack destroyed the power grid and altered life as they knew it. Since th…	OL19721867W
For Everything a Season	Paul Toews and Kevin Enns-Rempel, editors	For Everything a Season marks a transition in the organized life of the Mennonite Brethren denomination. Since 1879, the dominant conference structure of the denomination was the General Conference…	OL20387612W