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Twice a year, we send out a hard-copy newsletter and an electronic one. If you don’t already receive these and would like to, please click here to fill out the form on our Stay in Touch [...]

On 29th August Dave Quintana will take over as Presiding Elder from Ken Noecker. We caught up with him to get his perspectives on his new job.  What is your assessment of the brotherhood as you [...]

Reflections from Bruce Yocum, former Presiding Elder of the Servants of the Word In 2020 the Sword of the Spirit will celebrate 50 years of covenant community. The fiftieth year is of course the [...]

As Ken prepares to end his service as presiding elder, we caught up with him for a short interview. We know you have been the presiding elder of the brotherhood for eight years now, but what does [...]

From 27 to 29 August of last year, the Brotherhood Council met in Holly, Michigan. Thirty-one delegates met to review the life of the brotherhood, take up constitutional matters, and elect a new [...]

In Dan Keating’s new book, The Adventure of Discipleship, the Gospel is presented through the lens of great adventure stories—from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and C.S. [...]

Last August, three men, Philip Morrison (Northern Ireland), Jean Pierre Fahd (Lebanon) and Jerome Quiring (Philippines), made their lifelong commitment to the Servants of the Word. In case you [...]

Last August, Andy Pettman was installed as an elder in the Servants of the Word. Elders (currently eleven of them) are the men who assume primary care of the brothers. Andy grew up in Guildford [...]

Today at their Brotherhood Council held in Holly, Michigan, the Servants of the Word elected Dave Quintana as their new Presiding Elder. Dave will take his new office in August of 2019. Dave was [...]

Kevin Allport is fresh off a year of mission with UCO in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Martin Steinbereithner sat down with Kevin to interview him about his Mission Year. You can watch the interview [...]

Dear friends and family, Greetings! In this issue of our newsletter we will introduce to you our alumni from around the world: by that I mean the men who, out of their desire to pursue the Lord, [...]

Andy Juan (2nd from right) with some of the leaders he works with This article is part of our Summer 2018 Newsletter, where we interviewed our Alumni: men who, out of their desire to pursue the [...]

Brett Lockhart This article is part of our Summer 2018 Newsletter, where we interviewed our Alumni: men who, out of their desire to pursue the Lord, have investigated the life of the Servants of [...]

Leo Banong and friends, including elder Jim Orbe (3rd from left) This article is part of our Summer 2018 Newsletter, where we interviewed our Alumni: men who, out of their desire to pursue the [...]

Don Escarro with his family This article is part of our Summer 2018 Newsletter, where we interviewed our Alumni: men who, out of their desire to pursue the Lord, have investigated the life of the [...]

Salim Baz with his family, including a daughter born a few months ago This article is part of our Summer 2018 Newsletter, where we interviewed our Alumni: men who, out of their desire to pursue [...]

Luis Brenes (first from right) with his household in Costa Rica This article is part of our Summer 2018 Newsletter, where we interviewed our Alumni: men who, out of their desire to pursue the [...]

Twice a year, we send out a hard-copy newsletter and an electronic one. If you don’t already receive these and would like to, please click here to fill out the form on our Stay in Touch [...]

Andy and Mary Rose Jordan and their son Peter Andrew This article is part of our Summer 2018 Newsletter, where we interviewed our Alumni: men who, out of their desire to pursue the Lord, have [...]

Anthony Lamus, one of our affiliates, spent a year in Manila ministering to university students. Martin Steinbereithner interviewed Anthony about his Mission Year. You can listen to the interview [...]

  Check out the most recent article by our brother Dan Keating, on “Ecumenical Conversations”, published in the “Human Development” Magazine, Volume 38, Issue 3, [...]

The most recent book by our founder Steve Clark seeks to answer the question: How are Christians supposed to read the Old Testament? Can we really make use of this part of the Scripture, and if [...]

John Yocum spoke to the North American brothers at our December 2nd All-Brothers’ Lord’s Day. He spoke on “Making use of the season of Advent to prepare to meet the Lord” [...]

Our brother Mark Whitters recently published a book, Memoirs of an Unfinished Tale. Here’s a bit about the book: What if Luke had to reteach the basic lessons of his history of the early [...]

Athanasius and His Legacy by Thomas A. Weinandy, OFM, Cap. and Daniel A. Keating Athanasius was a fiery and controversial bishop from Egypt, driven from his See no less than five times. Yet, his [...]

The whole summer household in front of 716 Catherine in Ann Arbor, Michigan For nine weeks, beginning last May, fifteen men lived together in two houses in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for the [...]

Some of the Participants of “Desert Storm” A team of seven Servants of the Word brothers from Monterrey, Mexico, spent three weeks last July in Xalapa for a series of very intense [...]

Many of the “Men on Mission” participants on an outing to Tyre. In July of this year, five brothers from Europe and the USA spent three weeks in Beirut, Lebanon, in order to [...]

Dear friends, Here in North America, as in other parts of the world where our brothers serve, summer has come to an end, and it was a full one. Apart from all the mission activities described in [...]

Staff and participants of our Malaysian mission trip. Over the past three years, Kairos Asia has been working actively with the youth from the Covenanted for Christ Community (CfCC) based in [...]

We wanted to update you on John Keating, so we interviewed him briefly. Watch the interview here.