Our library in Hewett Centre is open every Sunday after service during Coffee Hour in Hewett Centre, and our Library Team offers related reading lists based on the topic of the Sunday service. Here is their list for the upcoming service on “A Celebration of Our Partner Church in Burundi”, featuring the VanU Partner Church Team on Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11 a.m. All are welcome in Hewett Centre after the Sunday service to check out some books, and to have coffee and conversation.
VanU library books related to this Sunday’s sermon:
1. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, by Dambisa Moyo, 2009, 3338.9 MOY [From LibraryThing: “.. describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa that has channeled billions of dollars in aid but failed to reduce poverty and increase growth. He offers a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.”].
2. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, by Amitav Ghosh, 2022, 363 GHO [From LibraryThing: “… a broader narrative about human entanglements with botanical matter-spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels-and the continuities that bind human history with these earthly materials. Ghosh also writes explicitly against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, and international immigration debates, among other pressing issues, framing these ongoing crises in a new way by showing how the colonialist extractive mindset is directly connected to the deep inequality we see around us today”].
3. Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, by Muhammad Yunus, 2008, 332.1 YUN [From LibraryThing: “… This autobiography of the world-renowned, visionary economist who came up with a simple but revolutionary solution to end world poverty–micro-credit–has become the classic text for a growing movement”].
4. The World Trade Organization: A Citizen’s Guide, by Steven Shrybman, 1999, 382.3 SHR [Gift of Barbara Taylor. From Google Books: “Citizens of Canada and of nations around the world have felt the sting of WTO policies and decisions in fields as diverse and pervasive as labour rights, environmental protection and public health. So it’s not surprising that whenever politicians and government officials gather to negotiate new trade deals, ordinary citizens gather to protest. … This book offers an informed account of what the WTO is and how it is using its extraordinary powers to supervise and overrule the actions of national governments. … offers an independent view of WTO actions in areas ranging from agriculture and the environment to labour and culture, tracing how it promotes the interests of global corporations at the expense of citizens.”].