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The editors of three smaller Mennonite groups (Evangelical Mennonite Conference, Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference, Chortitzer Mennonite Conference) joined forces in November to produce a one-time joint publication.
The magazine, titled Celebration, provided many examples of how the conferences work together, including Steinbach Bible College, mission work (in Paraguay, Mexico and Africa), Evangelical Anabaptist Seminary, and a tri-conference church plant in the north end of Winnipeg. The conferences met together once, at a convention in July 1994.
“What started off as a whimsical comment has become reality,” said Lil Goertzen, editor of EMMC’s The Recorder. “Through working together we have strengthened our skills and developed closer friendships.”
In the opening editorial, Terry Smith, senior editor of EMC’s The Messenger, said the one-time special publication “seek[s] to highlight ways in which we three smaller Mennonite conferences work together and how, whether formally or informally, we depend on each other and draw upon common resources in Christ.”
The theme of the issue was Reformation and a call to biblical literacy.
—from report by Becky Buhler, The Messenger
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