Where the People Go: Community, Generosity, and the Story of Everence 9781513806785

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Автор: Roth John D.
Название: Where the People Go: Community, Generosity, and the Story of Everence
ISBN: 9781513806785
Издательство: Herald Press (VA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1513806785
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 275
Вес: 0.36 кг.
Дата издания: 30.06.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 147 x 224 x 20
Поставляется из: США
Описание: A barn raising. A quilting bee. A credit union. A socially responsible investment.

Where the People Go tells the story of Anabaptist-Mennonite efforts to enable communal forms of sharing. Mutual aid, stewardship, and generosity are deeply embedded in the Christian faith and have been actively nurtured among Anabaptist-Mennonite groups. Spontaneous forms of assistance--a barn raising, a quilting bee, shared meals--are the best-known expressions of such compassion and generosity, but the commitment to sharing one anothers burdens has also found expression in more formal structures.

Seventy-five years ago, Mennonite Mutual Aid emerged to organize the principle of sharing within a growing Mennonite denomination. A dynamic organization from the beginning, MMA moved quickly from a burial and survivors aid plan to include health, property, and automobile insurance. In coming decades, the organization shifted its focus from mutual aid to stewardship and generosity, symbolized by a growing emphasis on socially responsible investment programs, wholistic health, financial planning, and services associated with its member-owned credit union. Always an agency of the Mennonite church, MMA, now known as Everence, has balanced its spiritual commitments with an increasingly complex regulatory environment, the national strains associated with the health-care debate, the shifting sensibilities of its customers, and the organizational complexities of a major corporation.

This story of Everence captures the stresses and idealism of a church-related institution committed to mutual aid, stewardship, and generosity during its seventy-five-year history.

Where the People Go: Community, Generosity, and the Story of Everence, Roth John D.