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.

• Missional Frontier 2018: A Mission Story of KMC - Witnessing in Faith
• Missional Frontier 2017: Uruguay: A Mission Challenge 
• Missional Frontier 2016: Mennonite Churches in DR Congo

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

• Ramseyer, Robert L.  “The Mission Training Center at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries:  Seminaries and Sending Agencies Together Training for Cross-Cultural Mission.” Mission Focus 14 (2006):  43-51.
• Sawatsky, Walter.  “Paradigm Shifts in Mission Training at AMBS.” Mission Focus 14 (2006):  52-58. 

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.