In God's ImageA Global Anabaptist Family by Ray Dirks |
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Today’s worldwide Anabaptist/Mennonite family of faith consists of approximately two million people—including nearly 1.2 million baptized members, their families, and other regular church participants—and reaches into most corners of the world. Many differences cross this vast range of people but those differences are bridged by a common faith. Ray Dirks assembled this book of art, photos, and stories of shared faith from twenty countries. Broadly covering all major regions of the world, the photographs highlight the everyday life of faith, work, family, and friends. Together the art and photographs portray the backbone of church and community, the ordinary people. Beautiful, full-color coffee-table book
Published by Herald Press in cooperation with Mennonite World Conference and Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery
About the Author
Ray Dirks is the curator of the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He brought together an exhibition of art and photographs for the Mennonite World Conference Assembly at Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, in August 2003. Dirks visited 20 communities around the world to create the traveling exhibit, taking photographs, collecting works of art, and writing stories.