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	to be appointed
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	Mariano Ramírez
Latin America - Central America	Willi Hugo Pérez
Latin America - Southern Cone	Gladys & Peter Siemens
North America	Gerald Hildebrand
Communications Team
Courier/Correo/Courrier Editor	Karla Braun
Web Communications Coordinator	Alexandro Marthin
Administrative Assistants
Bogotá	Nelson Martínez
Kitchener	Sarah Cain
Lancaster	Marianne Hlavaty
MWC Networks: Coordinators
Global Anabaptist Service Network (GASN)	José Arrais
Global Mission Fellowship (GMF)	José Arrais
MWC Emerging Networks: Coordinators
Global Anabaptist Education Network (GAEN)	David Wiebe
	Elaine Moyer
Global Anabaptist Health Network (GAHN)	Pakisa Tshimika
Global Anabaptist Peace Network (GAPN)	Andres Pacheco Lozano
Translation/Interpretation Coordinator	Karina Derksen-Schrock
YABs Staff Mentor	Tigist Tesfaye
Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO): General Editor	John Roth
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

Biennial Thai Anabaptist Gathering

Anabaptist groups and individuals gathered together 8–12 October 2018 at Sammuk Christian Academy, Chonburi, Thailand, for the fourth Thailand Anabaptist Gathering (TAG).

GMT responds to Kerala flooding

Mr Kannan kutty, 45, has terminal cancer. His wife is a labourer. She and one of his sons work any job they can find to earn money. Their other son is a student. Already struggling to have enough funds for cancer treatments and living costs, the family was affected by the heavy monsoon flooding in 13 of the 14 districts in the Kerala region of India in September 2018.

A growing church: a look at reported church members in 2018

“Uganda is ripe for evangelism and the church is growing,” says bishop Simon Okoth, national coordinator of Uganda Mennonite Church. The new Mennonite World Conference (MWC) member church (accepted by the Executive Committee in 2017) grew from 310 members in 7 congregations reported in 2015 to 553 members in 18 congregations in 2018.

Standing in solidarity with Indigenous people in Canada

“Our global value of peacemaking is expressed in the Declaration of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples,” says Mennonite World Conference general secretary César García. “How a church in South Korea or Colombia lives that out is not something we can legislate. It’s an issue we need to discern as churches in our specific contexts.”