Fifty Years, Fifty Stories

The Mennonite Mission in Somalia, 1953-2003

by Omar Eby
2003
Paper
Pages: 140
ISBN: 1-931038-17-1
Price: $14.95; in Canada $20.95

Co-published with Cascadia Publishing House

Fifty Years, Fifty Stories is a narrative history of the Mennonite Mission in Somalia, 1953-2003. Narrated through both text and photos, in coffee-table format, is the interplay between two worldviews: of the Islamic host culture and of its Christian missionary guests. The book's understated vignettes reveal the challenge the Mennonite Mission presented to Somali culture and religion and the cost of restraint, commitment, and personal sacrifice on the part of missionaries and believers

“Fifty years of the Mennonite Mission in Somalia captured in the subtle colors of a master artist—impressionistic, evocative, revelatory. Eby has sketched the story of a mission, a nation, and a people in suggestive vignettes that combine carefully selected detail with a keen view of the whole. Two peoples, worlds apart, meet in transformative friendship.”
— Richard Showalter, President, Eastern Mennonite Missions

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