The Work of Their Hands: Mennonite Womenâ (Tm)S Societies in Canada

by Gloria Neufeld Redekop

Impelled by a call to share their gifts through service, Russian Mennonite women immigrating to Canada organized their own church societies (Vereine) as avenues of mission and spiritual strengthening. For women who were restricted from leadership positions within the church, these societies became the primary avenue of church involvement. Through them they contributed vast amounts of energy, time and financial resources to the mission activity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889202702
• ISBN13: 9780889202702
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 192 Pages