U.K. Anabaptists celebrate mission worker’s legacy

May 21, 2018 by and

At the U.K. Anabaptist Theology Forum honoring the late Mennonite Mission Network worker Alan Kreider, Eastern Mennonite Missions worker Carol Wert, left, presents her paper to participants, including, from left, Lloyd Pietersen, Eleanor Kreider, Sian Murray Williams, Fran Porter, Linda Wilson and Ian Wilson. — Alan Wert

BROMSGROVE, England — Participants at the Anabaptist Theology Forum applauded when Eleanor Kreider walked into the room. Some considered her a spiritual mentor or close friend. Others had never met her but...

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Memory of Kreider

Jun 5, 2017 by

Early in my teaching sabbatical in England in the mid-1980s, I walked with Alan Kreider (“Kreider Lit Anabaptist Fire in U.K.,” May 22) along a shady lane near the London Mennonite Centre. He and Eleanor...

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Kreider lit Anabaptist fire in U.K.

May 12, 2017 by , , and

Alan Kreider, AMBS professor emeritus of church history and mission, greets AMBS President Sara Wenger Shenk while bidding farewell to his church family at Prairie Street Mennonite Church in Elkhart, Ind., in late April. — J. Nelson Kraybill

Alan F. Kreider, a mission worker, scholar and speaker who ignited contemporary Anabaptism in the United Kingdom and beyond, died May 8 at his home in Goshen, Ind. He was 75 and had been diagnosed with...

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