From 29 August to 2 September, all the Servants of the Word from across the world gathered in Brooklyn, Michigan in order to celebrate our 50th anniversary. A couple of years ago, when the date [...]
The Servants of the Word Have Elected David Mijares as their Next Presiding Elder We are pleased to announce that our Servants of the Word Council, which meets every four years, has elected David [...]
Interview with Daniel Calderon de Mezerville How did you meet Bruce? In 2008, I took a Gap Year in Belfast: I was 18 years old and needed to get my life on track. I met Bruce then, since he was [...]
When did you first meet Bruce? I first met him in the early 1970s when Peter [her husband] and I used to go on visits to Ann Arbor. He was already a key figure in that community. I am not sure we [...]
By Carrie Zahm I was 4 years old. It was a summer day. I was sitting alone in front of our home, playing contentedly. A half block away, Tim was walking toward the house, duffel bag slung over [...]
A radical disciple who finished the race Christ had set for him by Don Schwager I remember Bruce very well from the early beginnings of charismatic renewal in the late 1960s. We were both [...]
by Gerry Rauch I have known Bruce since early 1968 when he attended one of the early prayer meetings in our apartment over Campus Corners Drugstore when he was 18 years old and a student at [...]
by John Yocum In 1975, the charismatic renewal was booming. Hundreds of thousands of people had experienced what came to be known as “baptism in the Holy Spirit,” and exercised the spiritual [...]
On April 13, 2022, Jamie Treadwell was sentenced to 18 months’ probation, 14-days jail time (which he already served) and to be on the Public Sex Offender Registry. Our hearts continue to go out [...]
Interview with Angel Santiago I hear you took some people on a Mission trip- please tell me more Yes, a group went to Mexico from March 6th-13th. Nine students from Lansing, Ann Arbor and [...]
Lenten greetings! Maybe you are aware of the fact that this summer we are celebrating our 50th anniversary as a brotherhood. Well, technically that was last year, but the plans of many men [...]
Chelsea, MI – On Monday, February 28, 2022, former Servants of the Word member JamieTreadwell entered a plea of no contest to one count of attempted Criminal Sexual Conduct2nd degree. Our hearts [...]
Bruce Timothy Yocum, 73, died Friday 21 January in London, England. He was one of the pioneers and leaders of the Charismatic Renewal, of the covenant community movement, and of the “The Servants [...]
It is with deep sadness that we inform you that our dear brother Bruce Yocum passed away unexpectedly on Friday 21 January 2022 in London. Bruce was one of the original five brothers who started [...]
An Interview with Malaquias Garcia In November of last year, our brothers in Mexico started a temporary house in Xalapa, a city of about 800,000 inhabitants in the south of the country, in the [...]
As different countries return to some degree of normality, people keep asking us what aspects of our lives will resume their former shape and which ones have changed for good. Business leaders [...]
An Interview with Bruce Franson & Don DeSmith Ever since the 1990s, a number of our brothers have been working for Servant Systems International (SSI), a software company founded by Ted [...]
An Interview with Joseph Piquero Since the 1980s our brothers in Manila have lived in a house in Quezon City, in the center of Metro Manila: Scout Tobias, as it is called, has served as [...]
Greetings to you all! I truly hope that this newsletter will find you and your loved ones doing well. This past while has been such a challenging time for so many of us and on so many [...]
Thursday 2 September 2021, five men from different parts of the world are making their lifelong commitments to the Servants of the Word in Michigan. Below a description of each of them. Please [...]
Mike Shaughnessy just published a new book called “The Strategic Grandparent”. We interviewed him to find out what the book is about and who it is for.
Miguel Vargas, who lived for two years in Ann Arbor, is moving on to Mexico. Listen to this short interview about his time in the US and what awaits him.
Dear Friends, I hope and pray that this will find you doing well, having a blessed Easter season and staying safe and virus-free. I imagine that your experience of these days, like my own, is [...]
An Interview with Malaquías García as he returns to Mexicali, his hometown Malaquias Garcia is Mexican, 34 years old, and originally from Mexicali in the northwest of Mexico. When we caught up [...]
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