{"id":5766,"date":"2016-04-11T09:06:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T14:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2016-04-11T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T14:06:38","slug":"csop-participant-profile-darnell-barkman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2016\/csop-participant-profile-darnell-barkman\/","title":{"rendered":"CSOP Participant Profile \u2013 Darnell Barkman"},"content":{"rendered":"

CSOP massively energizing for Canadian peacebuilder working in the Philippines<\/em><\/h3>\n

When it comes to peace work in the Philippines, Darnell Barkman is on the front lines.<\/p>\n

Barkman and his wife, Christina, are Mennonite Church Canada Witness Workers, giving pastoral leadership to PeaceChurch Philippines, an Anabaptist church they helped plant in Metro Manila.<\/p>\n

\"\"Originally from Abbotsford, BC, the Barkmans have also been instrumental in the development of Peace Assemblies Network, also known as the Philippines Anabaptist Network, a group of peace-oriented individuals and churches who seek to transform their society by embodying a culture of peace in their faith communities in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus calls us to nonviolence,\u201d Darnell says. \u201cThat\u2019s very distinct in the whole world. That\u2019s very distinct in the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Barkmans and their colleagues work for peace and reconciliation between Christians, Muslims, and the indigenous people of the Philippines in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n

They respond to disasters by supporting marginalized people who get less help than others, they train military leaders in peacebuilding and human rights through partner organizations, and they challenge the larger church in the Philippines to love their neighbour and seek justice, just as Jesus taught.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe evangelical church of the Philippines is missing the peace and reconciliation teachings of scripture,\u201d Darnell says on his website, DarnellBarkman.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost leaders and members don\u2019t see scripture\u2019s ethics and peace teachings. They don\u2019t know how to see them \u2013 no one has ever highlighted them and they are seldom taught. My goal is that the church centers herself on Jesus\u2019 example and teaching as the soul of the faith. His teaching and examples in the Gospel are the primary story we are living to emulate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Darnell is passionate about Mennonite theology and Anabaptist history, and sharing that knowledge with people in the Philippines. He also describes himself as an \u201cexperimenter in personal transformation,\u201d discontent to enjoy the status quo and always looking to learn something new.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, when he found out he would be on furlough in Canada when the 2015 Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP) was taking place, he had to enrol.<\/p>\n

Darnell travelled to Winnipeg to take the course The Justice of God: Questions of Justice in the Bible and the World, taught by Dr. Christopher Marshall, Professor of Restorative Justice at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Darnell appreciated the way Marshall synthesized restorative justice principles with examples from his personal experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s really cool is how he\u2019s involved as a practitioner of restorative justice,\u201d Darnell says.<\/p>\n

Just as valuable as what he learned in the classroom was the opportunity Darnell had to meet new people at the CSOP.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeacebuilding can be very lonely work,\u201d he says. Attending the CSOP was massively energizing because it allowed him to connect with other peacebuilders. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing. It\u2019s what we need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now back in Manila, Darnell is excited to incorporate what he learned at CMU into his day-to-day work.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeace is not just a \u201860s hippy idea, or an individualistic, new-age feeling,\u201d Darnell says on his website. \u201cPeacebuilding has a tangible output: Healed relationships and experienced justice in all sectors of society.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more about CMU’s Canadian School of Peacebuildinging, please visit csop.cmu.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CSOP massively energizing for Canadian peacebuilder working in the Philippines When it comes to peace work in the Philippines, Darnell Barkman is on the front lines. Barkman and his wife, Christina, are Mennonite Church Canada Witness Workers, giving pastoral leadership to PeaceChurch Philippines, an Anabaptist church they helped plant in Metro Manila. Originally from Abbotsford, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[28,213,756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}