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Blessed are the peacemakers
Posted: April 5, 2024 | Category: Testimonies
As Christians, we may look to our Bibles to interpret today’s realities in light of long ago promises. The answer to this question is different for each faith community, says Dorothy Jean Weaver. A Jewish community’s answers arise from the Hebrew... more/más/suite
“Remember your baptism”
Posted: March 26, 2024 | Category: From Our Leaders
Could Anabaptist-Mennonites practice “remembering our baptism” as a tool for lifelong discipleship? Although they often baptize infants, both Catholics and Lutherans call upon the believer – sometimes every year – to “remember your baptism” into a... more/más/suite
World Mennonites pray for courage and love
Posted: March 22, 2024 | Category: Testimonies
“What a good way to end our day praying together as a global church,” says Sushant Nand, a leader in Mennonite Church India. He led a breakout room for Online Prayer Hour, a bimonthly event at 14:00 UTC that gathers Anabaptist-Mennonites from around... more/más/suite
Equipping future church leaders
Posted: February 16, 2024 | Category: Testimonies
As a generation of experienced pastor enters retirement age, many churches around the world are seeing a shortage of trained leaders. Pastoral candidates who have studied Anabaptist theology are even more rare. However, the three Anabaptist-... more/más/suite
We will continue to pray
Posted: January 31, 2024 | Category: Testimonies
“Praise God we had a meaningful prayer time for unity of Spirit to pray for suffering and bleeding humanity. May God have mercy over this world. We will continue pray for shared points,” says participant Rechal Bagh. more/más/suite
In Memoriam: John A. Lapp (1933-2023)
Posted: December 10, 2023 | Category: News
Mennonite World Conference mourns the loss of John A. Lapp, who died on Tuesday, 7 December 2023, at 90 years of age. John A. Lapp was coordinator and co-editor of MWC’s Global Mennonite History Series. From 1997 to 2012, he and C. Arnold Snyder... more/más/suite
MWC calls for global energy transition
Posted: December 7, 2023 | Category: News
Earth in all its diversity, vitality and abundance is a gift that has been overshadowed by neglect, exploitation and unsustainable consumption. Anabaptist values, by contrast, call for stewardship (thoughtful care-taking), simplicity and the dignity... more/más/suite
Ambassadors of God’s Kingdom
Posted: December 5, 2023 | Category: From Our Leaders
“But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Philippians 3:20). These words of the apostle Paul are part of a letter that addresses a church audience that likely included both... more/más/suite
One new step each year
Posted: November 27, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
You are invited! Join us for Climate Pollinators, a webinar series on creation care. See below! On a map of Green Churches in the Netherlands, there is a green dot for the Mennonite congregation in Aalsmeer. Another dot represents Arboretumkerk (... more/más/suite
Mennonites and the state
Posted: November 2, 2023 | Category: From Our Leaders
When we enter God’s kingdom, we receive new citizenship and are freed to experience a new kind of politics. We are not slaves of evil systems anymore. We belong to a new society where, along with other followers of Christ, we project Jesus’ image to... more/más/suite
Eco-theology reconciles the church with nature
Posted: October 30, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
You are invited! Join us for Climate Pollinators, a webinar series on creation care. See below! When human beings were created in Genesis, “This was the first mission of the human… to both enjoy but also to protect and take care of creation,” says... more/más/suite
A reconciling response to war in the Middle East
Posted: October 23, 2023 | Category: From Our Leaders
October 2023 At a time of increasing bloodshed between Israelis and Palestinians, with mounting tension between nations of the Middle East and beyond, leaders of Mennonite World Conference make three urgent appeals: That member churches of Mennonite... more/más/suite
Interconnected family celebrates peace
Posted: October 21, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
Peace (English) – Paix (French) – Amani (Swahili) – Mirembe (Luganda): children at a Uganda Mennonite church wrote “Peace” in multiple languages. (See photo below.) Each year, the Peace Commission prepares a worship resource for Peace Sunday... more/más/suite
Anabaptists on the streets of Zurich
Posted: September 21, 2023 | Category: News
On 29 May 2025, Mennonite World Conference invites guests from around the world to gather in Zurich to commemorate this beginning. “Courage to love,” the theme for the event, will mark this history and celebrate what the movement has become today... more/más/suite
What can I do to address world hunger?
Posted: September 20, 2023 | Category: News
Mennonite World Conference is one of 14 Christian organizations joining hands with World Vision International in prayer and action against world hunger. The third annual Weekend of Prayer and Action Against Hunger (#WoPA2023) is observed 14-16... more/más/suite
Kenya Mennonite: a living church
Posted: September 11, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
After an eight-year gap, leaders and members of Kenya Mennonite Church (KMC) held its national convention in in the town of Migori in August 2023, attended by 1 300 people. A delegation from Mennonite World Conference consisted of president Henk... more/más/suite
New tagline reinforces MWC Vision and Mission Statements
Posted: August 22, 2023 | Category: News
If you were to sum up Mennonite World Conference in three phrases, what would you say? MWC leadership has selected a new tag line to do just that: “following Jesus, living out unity, building peace”. “After almost one year of consultative process... more/más/suite
Living everyday is a miracle
Posted: August 7, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
Ethiopia is a country located in the Horn of Africa. We’re unique in some ways but the same with the rest of African countries in some other ways. We’re a very poor country with a population of around 110 million. more/más/suite
Universally appealing core values
Posted: July 20, 2023 | Category: From Our Leaders
Meet Hiro Katano of Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan Member of the Faith & Life Commission. How do you serve MWC? I have been a General Council member, representing Nihon Menonaito Kirisuto Kyokai Kyogikai (Japan Mennonite Christian Church Conference),... more/más/suite
Third peace conference brings faith and peace together
Posted: July 20, 2023 | Category: News
“There’s something in the water among Mennonite theologians and peace building scholars and practitioners…around the decolonial project that people are drinking from now that is interesting and quite good,” says Andrew Suderman. The Eastern... more/más/suite
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