Resources

Mission Theology Statement of the Mission Commission

God’s People in Mission: An Anabaptist Perspective - A Statement of the MWC Mission Commission
God’s People in Mission: An Anabaptist Perspective – the 2018 volume for the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Shelf of Literature, produced by the MWC Mission Commission.

Missional Frontier

Missional Frontier: Our goal is to share every year one missional frontier with the members of GMF and GASN networks. The idea is to inform, learn, and inspire about the work and challenges that Anabaptist churches and organizations are facing in a particular country.

Articles on Anabaptism and Mission

Starter List
Anabaptist Missiological Resources: Additional readings by category
Intersections (published by MCC)
Anabaptist Witness (formerly Mission Focus)
Missio Dei series (published by Mennonite Mission Network)

Bibliography

An extensive bibliography by C. Bauman and J. Krabill, eds., was published in book form in 2000 with over 3,250 titles. Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) has now updated this by including everything written in the past ten years (2000-2010) and made it available electronically.

Click here to see bibliography: Anabaptism and Mission: An online bibliography 1859-2011

Case Studies

EMM’s vision for a network of international churches that they started and desire to collaborate with as partners: “My Vision for the International Missions Association” by Richard Showalter.
This article tells the story of a collaboration between the Indonesian Mennonite Mission Board (PIPKA), Mennonite Central Committee and Eastern Mennonite Missions in Indonesia: "A Pioneer Partnership and its Enduring Fruit” by Richard Showalter

Mission Training

History

Online Courses

BLESS (Biblical Lands Educational Seminars and Service)

Association of Anabaptist Missiologists

List of AMM Certificate Recipients —AAM recognizes significant contributions of individuals from various Anabaptist denominations to mission practice, mission thought and mission administration at its annual gathering.
Agenda of 2nd AMM gathering – a sample of this Association’s topics of discussion and speakers.
News Release — following the first AAM gathering in 2000, explaining the Association’s purpose and the content of the gathering.
Paper presented by Lawrence Yoder at the 2nd gathering in 2000, as an example.

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.”