Foreword by J. Winfield Fretz • 9
Acknowledgments • 11
Introduction • 13

PART ONE: BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 1 Mutual Aid Based in Jesus and Early Christianity
by Willard M. Swartley • 21

Chapter 2 Nehemiah: An Old Testament Model
by Wilma Ann Bailey • 40

PART TWO: THEOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 3 Mutual Aid as “Practice”
by Joseph J. Kotva, Jr. • 57

Chapter 4 Mutual Aid: Harbinger of the Kingdom?
by Cornelius A. Buller • 80

PART THREE: HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES
Chapter 5 Mutual Aid Among the Augsburg Anabaptists, 1526-1528
by Jeni Hiett Umble • 103

Chapter 6 Mutual Aid Among the Swiss Brethren, 1550-1750
by John D. Roth • 119

Chapter 7 Mutual Aid Among Dutch Waterlander
Mennonites, 1605-1668
by Mary S. Sprunger • 144

PART FOUR: ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES
Chapter 8 Changing Patterns of Mutual Aid in Ontario, 1864-1994
by E. Reginald Good • 171

Chapter 9 My Brother’s Keeper: The Origins of Mennonite Mutual Aid
by Albert N. Keim • 192

Chapter 10 Fifty-Year Partners: Mennonite Mutual Aid and the Church
by Steven M. Nolt • 213

PART FIVE: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND PRACTICE
Chapter 11 Mutual Aid and the “New Voluntarism”
by Conrad L. Kanagy • 247

Chapter 12 Mennonite Mutual Aid: A Margin of Difference?
by Keith Graber Miller • 264

Chapter 13 The Changing Face of Corporate Care
by Donald B. Kraybill • 293

Epilogue: A Vision for the Future, by Howard L. Brenneman • 306
Select Bibliography of Mennonite Mutual Aid • 309
Contributors • 317
About Herald Press, Pandora Press, and Pandora Press U.S. 319