Ecumenical healing and
the mystery of the communion of saints
Fourteenth annual Bridgefolk conference
August 20-23, 2015
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, IN
Keynote Speakers:
Nozomu Yamada and Fr. Alfonso Fausone SVD,
both from Nanzan University in Japan
The communion of saints — the spiritual union of Christians living and dead — was the theme of the 2015 Bridgefolk gathering at AMBS. Our keynote speakers were from Nanzan University in Japan. They shared the amazing story of Mennonite student Jun Yamada’s healing from leukemia more than 25 years ago, the prayers for the intercession of Joseph Freinademetz that Catholics offered for him, the Vatican’s recognition of Jun’s healing as a miracle, and the new paths of peacemaking that are flowing from these events.
- Conference schedule
- News release on the conference
- Audio recordings of conference presentations:
- Thursday evening: Alan and Eleanor Kreider
- Friday morning: Nozomu Yamada and Fr. Fausone SVD
- Friday afternoon part 1: various speakers on the topic, “Cloud of Witnesses”
- Friday afternoon part 2: Nozomu Yamada and Fr Fausone VSD, “Intercession Considered”
- Saturday morning, part 1: Shizuo Tachibana on the bombing of Nagasaki
- Saturday morning, part 2: Shizuo Tachibana continues
- Or click here for conference presentations on iTunes.
To learn more about the story of how the miraculous healing of a Japanese Mennonite confirmed a Catholic sainthood…
- click here for Mennonite World Review article, or
- click here for full account by Nozomu Yamada and Alan Kreider.