MWC Staff

General Secretary	César García
Executive Assistant to GS	Sandra Báez
Operations Team
Chief Administrative Officer	Anna Sorgius
Chief Communications Officer	Kristina Toews
Chief Development Officer	Arli Klassen
Chief International Events Officer	Liesa Unger
Chief Operating Officer	Len Rempel
Commission Secretaries
Deacons Commission	Henk Stenvers
Faith and Life Commission	John D. Roth
Missions Commission	Rafael Zaracho
Peace Commission	Andrew Suderman
Regional Representatives
Coordinator	Arli Klassen
Central/West Africa	Francisca Ibanda
Eastern Africa	Tesfatsion Dalellew
Southern Africa	Barbara Nkala
Southeast Asia	to be appointed
Northeast Asia	KyongJung Kim
South Asia	Cynthia Peacock
Europe	Henk Stenvers
Latin America - Andean Region	Pablo Stucky
Latin America - Caribbean Region	to be appointed
Latin America - Central America	Willi Hugo Pérez
Latin America - Southern Cone	Gladys & Peter Siemens
North America	Lynn Roth
Communications Team
Courier/Correo/Courrier Editor	Karla Braun
Web Communications Coordinator	Danielle Gonzales
Administrative Assistants
Bogotá	Nelson Martínez
Kitchener	Sarah Cain
Lancaster	Marianne Hlavaty
YABs Staff Mentor	Tigist Tesfaye
YAMEN! Coordinator	Andrea Geiser
Administrative Consultants	Jim Harder
	Karen Klassen Harder
	Herman Bontrager
Translator - French	Sylvie Gudin Koehn
Translator - Spanish	Marisa Miller

Most Recent News

New bishops in Tanzania plan for revival

The church in Tanzania underwent revival in the 1940s–1980s and the leaders of Kanisa la Mennonite Tanzania (KMT) are ready to welcome it again. The newly elected bishops have cast a vision to expand the Mennonite church in Tanzania by one million people. In January 2017, several retirements caused turnover of more than half of KMT’s bishops: five new young leaders (under age 55 compared to the usual 60-plus) joined the remaining three to create a plan for revival, envisioning a Mennonite congregation in every village in Tanzania.

MWC has beauty to be shared

Bogota, Colombia – “MWC is a global family through which we experience our participation in the body of Christ,” says general secretary César García. Social media is one place we participate with each other across geographical boundaries. “We are a meeting place for the Anabaptist family,” says Chief Communications Officer Kristina Toews. “Through MWC’s online platforms, you can talk to each other, sharing lives through photos, prayers and encouragements.”

New name? MWC considers identity and brand

Changing a name is not a process entered into lightly: there are legal steps, and friends and acquaintances must learn to use the new name. More importantly, the change says something about identity: something significant has changed, or the new name better describes who you have always been. Over the past 30 years, the leaders of Mennonite World Conference (MWC) have been in conversation around the possibility of a name change.

MWC provides care after the storm

A 15th birthday celebration at their church, Casa de Oración, drew Ignacio and Liliana’s family out of their house in Manta, Ecuador, earlier than usual on 16 April, 2016, just before an earthquake struck. The 7.8 Richter scale tremor killed some 700 people and left more than 6,500 families homeless, including Ignacio and Liliana who stayed with his parents after the falling wall of the neighbour’s house damaged theirs.