Re-Imagining the Church
Implications of Being a People in the World
Edited by Andrew Gregory Suderman
Foreword by Andrew Reesor-McDowell, Henry Krause and Hilda Hildebrand
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
Robert J. Suderman has spent the last forty-seven years working with the church as teacher, scholar, and administrator. Having lived in Latin America for ten years, he has engaged the church in over forty different countries. He has been married to Irene for fifty years, and they have three sons and daughters-in-law, now with five grandchildren.
Andrew Suderman is Assistant Professor of Theology, Peace, and Mission at Eastern Mennonite University as well as the Secretary for the Mennonite World Conference Peace Commission. He, along with his wife Karen, worked as Mennonite Church Canada Witness Workers living in South Africa for seven years (2009-2016) where he served as the Director of the Anabaptist Network in South Africa. He is completing a PhD in Theology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He and Karen have two children.
"There are people that have lost their hope in the church. Some of them are hurt. Others think that the church has been tamed. It is in this context that Suderman invites us to dream and act based on what God has intended for his church: She is 'the foundational strategy of God for the transformation of the world.' This book is a great source to recover our hope and live in that reality!"
--Cesar Garcia, General Secretary, Mennonite World Conference, Bogota, Colombia