A Pilgrimage Of Faith, J.B. Toews, 1993

can Edition, (HilUboro, Kans.: Mennonite Brethren Publishing House, 1917), 16-17. 20. Year Book, 52nd Session of the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches convening at Reedleys California November 1 1-14, 1972, 13-14; 21. Year Book, 55th Session of the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches August 7-11, 1981, St. Catharines, Ontario, 13- 22. This information is based on a survey of ankles in The Christian Leader and Mennonite Brethren Herald. The subject cards used for the survey are in my posses- sion. 23- Board of Reference and Counsel Study Conferences; "Study Conference on the Ministry, " 5-6 March 1970, Buhler, Kans.; "Current Issues in Church Leadership,'' 8-10 May 1980, Clearbrook, B. C; "The Mennonite Brethren Church as a Covenant Community," 15-17 October 1986, Fresno, Calif. 24. Pacific District Conference Yearbook, 1983, 21-22. 25. Paul G. Hiebert, "Banyan Trees and Banana Trees," Mennonite Brethren Her- ald, 9 March 1990, % CHAPTER 18 1 . John A. Toews, A History of the Mennonite Brethren Church: Pilgrims and Pio~ neere (Fresno, Calif.: Board of Christian literature, General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, 1975), 76, 2. Verbandlu ngen der dreissigsten Bu ndes-Konferenz der Men non iten Bruderge- meinde von Nord Amerika ahgehatten in der Gemeinde, S&d-bqffnu ngsfeld, bei Isabel- la, Oklahoma, am 9, 10, u. 11. November, 1908, 47. See also other annual confer- ence yearbooks, 1883-1912, under the headings *Reiseprediger.* 3. Verhandtungen, 1908, 46; The churches in Eldorado, Sutton and Culbertson, Nebraska; Verhandtungen der zweiunddreissigsten Bundes~Konferenz der Mennoni- ten Brtidergemeinde von Nord Amerika, 68; The churches in Harvey, McClusky and Dogden, North Dakota. 4. Toews, A History of the Mennonite Brethren Church, 315- 5- Year Book of the 39th Pacific District Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church of North America He4d at Bakersfietd, California, October 23 to 27t 1948, 11. 6. Protocol! No. 25 der Pmvinzialen Konferenz der MennonUen Brudergemeinde von Manitoba abgehalten den 5. und 6. Juni 1959 in der Kirche derSUd End Menno- niten Brudergemeinde, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 12-13. 7- Yea r Book of the 44th Pacific District Conference of the Men nonite Brethren Church of North America held at the Reedteyf Calif, Mennonite Brethren Church No- 358 ENDNOTES pages 242-248 vember 14-18, 1953, 54. The theological implications of this "child evangelism" em- phasis awaits further analysis. 8. George W. Webber, Today's Church. A Community of Exiles and Pilgrims (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1979), 33. 9. C.