It’s happened to all of us: we’re at the mall, enjoying the air conditioning and shopping for summer clothes when we stumble across a holiday display, complete with plastic snow and Christmas trees. We shake our heads, complain about the commercialization of Christmas and walk off, knowing we’ll be back, credit card in hand…soon. — Ed.

Tesfa Dallelew's passion for Africa, the continent of his birth, is immediately apparent. Even if one does not know about his many years of work through World Vision and the Mennonite Central Committee, his resonant voice gives him away. He opened his talk at FPU, on February 8, 2007, with a warning. "Sometimes I get too preachy," he said. "Beware."
 

Duane Ruth-Heffelbower may have been on leave from the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies at Fresno Pacific University—but he was still making peace.

Ruth-Heffelbower returns to campus after more than two years on leave in Indonesia. From August of 1999 to December of 2001 he helped set up and operate a peace center at Duta Wacana Christian University and volunteered with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), an international relief and development organization. His wife, Clare Ann, served as MCC Indonesia country director.