500 years: The courage to love
On 29 May 2025, Mennonite World Conference (MWC) will welcome guests from around the world to The Courage to Love: Anabaptism@500. Young adults gather the next day to be Empowered by love at the 2025 Global Youth Summit (GYS).
Early Anabaptists in Europe sought God’s face in dangerous times. Today, Anabaptist sisters and brothers around the world experience challenges of their own.
As we seek God’s face together in the global church, consider a gift of $5, $50, or $500 to MWC today to commemorate 500 years of Anabaptism. Your gift of support to MWC enables the whole body to flourish as Christ continues to build us up in love.
Year in Review 2024
Our member churches are like the many pieces of a mosaic. Each piece is different, but together we form one beautiful mosaic. Thank you to everyone in our churches supporting MWC.
Our Membership
1
International Association
110
Mennonite & Brethren in Christ national churches
61
Countries
1.45
Million
baptized believers
10 180
Congregations
News
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MWC welcomes election of new pope
Mennonite World Conference congratulates Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on his election as Pope and 267th Bishop of Rome 8 May 2025, taking the papal name Leo XIV. The election makes history with the first pope selected from North America, following Pope Francis (Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio) who was the first Latin American. In a letter […]
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In Prayer
If you would like to share a prayer with us, please write to prayers@mwc-cmm.org.
Urgent Prayers and Pastoral Letters
Online Prayer hour
Upcoming prayer hours are at 14:00 UTC*.
- Friday, 16 May 2025
The prayer Network
The Prayer Network supports our global family by emailing prayers every two months and occasionally when an urgent call to prayer arises.
Worship Resource
Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday 2025
The first baptisms in the Anabaptist tradition took place in secret in Zurich, Switzerland, on 21 January 1525. A small group of Jesus-followers acted together with courage on their shared understanding of Scripture and the church, different from their political and religious context. Today there are churches all over the world in the Anabaptist tradition, acting together with courage to love each other, different from our political and religious contexts that too often pull us apart.
