This week I traveled to Viêt Nam with Minear, our Connecting Peoples Coordinator, to meet with the Vietnam Mennonite Church (Hội Thánh Mennonite Việt Nam) at their General Office in Ho Chi Minh city. The purpose of our visit was to reestablish collaboration between MCC and VMC for the purpose of resuming Vietnamese Mennonite participation in…
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Who is Marcy (Weber) Ninomiya?
Last month the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) contacted us to invite to join a book launching for the memoir of Marcy (Weber) Ninomiya. Marcy, her husband Akiie, and Naoko from JICA also decided to visit the MCC Cambodia office a few days before and catch up on MCC’s work in the region. Marcy is…
Lotus Imagery in Hanoi
The national flower of Việt Nam is the lotus. On my trip to Hanoi the first weekend in January there was lotus imagery everywhere. But what special meaning does the lotus hold for the Vietnamese? What can be more beautiful than the lotus in the pond? Green leaves, white flowers, yellow stamen. Yellow stamen, white…