ABSTRACT
Fremont and Sara Regier served in Central and Southern Africa from 1955 to 2000. Fremont, who passed away in 2010, first went to Africa as a Pax volunteer. Together, working for the Congo Inland Mission and the Congolese Mennonite Church, Fremont and Sara focused on agricultural development and women’s education. Later, the served as liaisons to African Initiated Churches, as facilitators in post-war rehabilitation, as country and regional directors of MCC’s programs in relief and development, and as volunteers embedded in national churches and non-governmental organizations. Along the way they equipped themselves with training in international development, extension education, women’s and gender studies, and theology. Guiding them throughout this pilgrimage was an evolving sense of a calling in which each era and project shaped the needs and the vision of the next, around a core paradigm featuring program ownership by learners, cultural authenticity in method and content, decentralized structures, and a nurturing community.
