Whom Shall I Fear? A Look at Islam
By Andrew Sharp, from the February Beacon
Editor’s note: the names of RMM workers in this story and the countries they live in have been changed for security reasons.
Communities in Europe and the United States are being flooded with Muslim immigrants, while the “War on Terror” drags on in Islamic nations. A yawning gap in cultural expectations has created terrible friction as West and East grind together. Fear and tension between established groups in Western nations and Muslim newcomers have skyrocketed in the last decade, leaving Westerners bitterly divided over Islam.
We are excited that Joe and Lynn Troyer, with their son Brennan, recently joined the Thailand team in Bangkok for a two-year assignment as missionary apprentices. They will focus on learning the culture and language in their first year, then transition into more outreach and ministry in their second year. The Troyers are from Hartville, Ohio. A short introduction to each of them: 
As new SEND Ministries director Kevin Mayer settles into his role overseeing Rosedale Mennonite Missions’ short-term programs, he has something on his heart. Actually, he has something connected to his heart—a defibrillator. It’s a memento from an unsettled last year and a half that is finally starting to make a little sense.
Paul Kurtz is director of Rosedale Business Group, an RMM program promoting business as missions. With his wife Grace, he runs Hemisphere Coffee Roasters in Mechanicsburg, Ohio. This article is made up of excerpts from his new book, A House Blend, about his experiences with business as mission in the coffee trade. HCR is a direct-trade enterprise with the goal of fair business and building up coffee-growing communities. 
By Austin Beachy, SEND Ministries Program Facilitator
By Andrew Sharp, from the July Beacon
Have you ever taken a test that lists four different things and asks you to choose which one doesn't belong with the rest? Here is my test. Out of the following four things, choose one which doesn’t seem to fit: Rosedale Bible College (RBC); Rosedale Mennonite Missions (RMM); Rosedale International Center (RIC); juggling. If you are like most people, you probably picked the last item. Juggling has nothing to do with RBC, RMM, and the RIC. Or does it? My story has all four mixed together in a fascinating adventure, which has ultimately led me to start my own juggling show/ministry and to become the president of the Christian Jugglers Association (CJA).
100 years ago, visionary John Mott challenged the church with a call for “The Evangelization of the World in This Generation.” In 1910, leaders from the major mission organizations of that day gathered in Edinburgh, Scotland, to pray and strategize toward that end. It was the first time in history that mission leaders from every major sending organization gathered to assess the situation and make plans to complete the task Christ left in the hands of his church. But it wasn’t the last.
On June 11, 2010, parts of the city of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan erupted in ethnic violence, which spread to other areas. Groups from the Kyrgyz ethnic group attacked minority Uzbek neighborhoods, and in the fighting many were killed and many homes burned. Both sides told different stories about the cause of this ugly tragedy, but the result was clear: shattered lives for many families, most of them Uzbek. 
by Caleb Zimmerman
by Andrew Sharp
