An impossible request. The request seemed too large to do anything about: Could small North Leo Mennonite get 12 people to go to Kenya for two weeks to help build a church? And could they bring $10,000 for building supplies and $1,000 in tools with them?
"My first reaction was, 'I'd love to do it, but it's impossible," said Gaylen Swartz, an elder at the church. Now he has a different reaction: "The Lord laughs when we say 'impossible.'" Read More in the March/April Gospel Evangel >>
Pictured above: A team from North Leo Mennonite works alongside Kenyans on a new church building in 2006.
Cultivating complete dependence on God Betty and Lee Goewey (pictured at left) know what it's like to be sent somewhere. For nearly three decades, Lee's work as a navy pilot took them and their three children all over the country, from Hawaii to Rhode Island and almost 20 points between. But it was the couple's last move from Mississippi to Michigan's Upper Peninsula in 1982 that they believe brought them to where God truly wanted them: Grand Marais, on the shore of Lake Superior, 100 miles from the nearest stoplight. Read More in the March/April Gospel Evangel >>
Welcome to Paul Shetler who began April 28 as interim editor. Paul will cover for Annette Brill Bergstresser during her maternity leave and will be responsible for two issues of Gospel Evangel and three issues of weLink. He can be reached at paul@im.mennonite.net
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Bring banners, take banners at Annual Sessions this year. Your congregation's unused banners may be another's treasures! "Leftover" banners will be sold as is by The Depot MCC Thrift Shops, Goshen, Ind., or recycled to Faith Mission. Contact person: Nila Newcomer, Shore Mennonite, deere4me@embarqmail.com; 260.562.2764
Cultivating complete dependence on God 
