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Silver Thread is a warm, historical account of three generations of Mennonites, serving first in East Africa and later in war-torn Central America. The Mennonites are surprised by the beauty of their new African home, but that contrasts sharply with ongoing and intense bouts with malaria. Their isolation from family and home is set within the context of new and deep relationships with the East Africans who become their friends. Their children grow up calling East Africa home and return as second generation missionaries. By the third generation, Mennonites have changed the way they do mission. One of the grandsons finds himself facing similar yet very different, circumstances as he becomes a 'missionary' in Nicaragua in 1990. This is a Mennonite mission love story, told with forthright grace and and eye on the realities of learning to live with different cultural understandings. 224 pages, paperback.
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