Dear friends,
This article comes courtesy of Mennonite Brethren Herald, the publication of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches—slightly shortened, and with Sidebar 1 added.
Byron Rempel-Burkholder, MWC editor
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Second ICOMB Higher Education Consultation, June 13–17
by Karla Braun
Winnipeg, Canada—A constant hum of voices – simultaneous interpretation in Spanish and French, and explanatory words in Portuguese, German, and Russian – animated each of the sessions of the International Community of Mennonite Brethren’s Higher Education Consultation at Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, June 13–17, as participants from around the world engaged with presentations on the theme “Church and School: Compañeros ²(co-labourers) in growing people of God.”
Mennonite Brethren church conference leaders, and directors, deans, and board members from 30 Mennonite Brethren and Mennonite institutes of higher learning from 17 countries on 5 continents (representatives from Angola were denied visas) spent a week living in the school dormitories, thinking, eating, discussing, laughing, and learning together through a daily schedule of singing, devotions, plenary addresses, round-table discussions, workshops, and prayer. “We go by first names; nobody asks to be called ‘Dr.,’” said Arthur Duck, director of FaculdadeFidelis, Curitiba, Brazil.
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