MWC is a global communion of Anabaptist churches that are together facing the climate crisis.
Central to our ethos is to respond faithfully to the challenges of our world. What does it mean to follow Jesus into this crisis? Member churches – along with all humanity – are all at the receiving end of the crisis.
Some, especially in the Global North, are disproportionately at the production end of the crisis. Others, especially those in the world who lack power and resources, are disproportionately impacted.
This means that we have within our communion a diversity of experience and a diversity of responsibility.
MWC provides an opportunity to respond faithfully to the climate crisis, and other ecological crises, in diverse ways within one communion, which is itself profoundly fitting in relation to this crisis. This task-force will formulate a plan for the MWC response, and initiate activities aimed at increasing awareness and action.
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The Creation Care Task Force will work with member churches of MWC to
- increase awareness of the climate crisis.
- present practical ways to encourage ecologically faithful living.
- explore how represented countries are being impacted by the climate crisis.
- encourage the development of biblical and theological capacity relevant to the climate crisis.
- develop a strategic plan for MWC that includes practical, short-term projects and mid-range and longer-term commitments.
Meet your Creation Care Task Force
Chair
Doug Graber Neufeld
- professor of biology at Eastern Mennonite university, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA
- director of Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions
- Home church: Community Mennonite Church (MCUSA), Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA
Europe
David Nussbaumer
- biodiversity offset coordinator, CEN Alsace, France
- Graduate Diploma in Christian Studies, Regent College, Vancouver, Canada
- Home church: Église mennonite d’Altkirch, France
Africa
Sibonokuhle Ncube
- national coordinator of compassionate development service, Brethren in Christ Church, Zimbabwe;
- MDiv (candidate), Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana
Latin America
Juliana Morillo
- missionary in Peru and now in Colombia, with the Mennonite Teusaquillo Church in Bogotá
- MSc development and environmental management
- Latin America Facilitator for the Lausanne/WEA Creation Care Network
Asia
Nindyo Sasongko
- PhD (candidate), systematic theology, Fordham University
- minister, GKMI Mennonite church, Indonesia
North America
Jennifer Schrock
- MDiv, Chicago Theological Seminary
- director, Mennonite Creation Care Network, Goshen, Indiana, USA
- Home church: Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship, Goshen, Indiana, USA
MCC
Anna Vogt
- director of MCC Ottawa
- formerly of MCC SEED and Justapaz in Colombia
Creation Care stories
Stories and testimonies by, about or related to creation care
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COP 30 blogs by a Dutch Mennonite
Updates from COP 29 – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) This year, Marijke van Duin was once again an observer at the annual United Nations Climate Summit as a delegate of the World Council of Churches. This 30th climate summit, COP 30, was held in Belém, Brazil, in the Amazon rainforest. Marijke
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General Council leaves a mark
At a prayer meeting, a Mennonite World Conference staff member prayed that the presence of Anabaptists gathered in Germany for General Council meetings would leave a mark. Although the prayer was to leave behind the fragrance of Christ, there will also be a living memento of Mennonite World Conference’s visit. The Executive Committee, Commissions, Creation
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COP 29 blogs by a Dutch Mennonite
Updates from COP 29 – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) “We are witnessing terrible violence against God’s beloved creation. And we are increasingly aware of how much we share in the harm, both as sinners and as sinned-against,” says Thomas R Yoder Neufeld, chair of the Faith & Life Commission. “We must
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Prayer: To hope and act with creation
The Season of Creation, an annual ecumenical initiative, concludes with the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi on 4 October. Inspired by his Canticle of Creatures and Romans 8:19-25, this prayer invites us to praise, repent and lament, and then “to hope and act with Creation”. God, Creator of heaven and earth, We praise you
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Faithfulness in action
The environmental crisis and our mandate to care for creation A word of encouragement from the MWC Faith & Life Commission and the Creation Care Task Force. Part 2 of 2 “Creation care” is taking on ever-increasing urgency. The news reminds us daily of alarming changes in our climate. We are witnessing terrible violence against
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God so loved the cosmos…
The environmental crisis and our mandate to care for creation A word of encouragement from the MWC Faith & Life Commission and the Creation Care Task Force. Part 1 of 2 “Creation care” is taking on ever-increasing urgency. The news reminds us daily of alarming changes in our climate. As the Creation Care Task Force’s
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Striving for integrity
Andre Wiederkehr, of Ontario, Canada, doesn’t have a driver’s license. That’s because he chooses not to use fossil fuels to get around. Without using a car, attending Hanover Mennonite Church on Sundays means riding 21 kilometers by bike. “None of us is really an enthusiastic biker,” says Andre Wiederkehr, who lives on a farm with…
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Less rain, less shade, more people
January to April is the rainy season in Guayaquil, a port city on the coast of Ecuador. But this past year, says Sara Noemi Viteri Moreno, a member of Iglesia Jesus el Buen Pastor (Jesus the good shepherd, a Mennonite church) in Guayaquil, it hardly rained at all.
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MWC calls for global energy transition
Earth in all its diversity, vitality and abundance is a gift that has been overshadowed by neglect, exploitation and unsustainable consumption. Anabaptist values, by contrast, call for stewardship (thoughtful care-taking), simplicity and the dignity of all persons created in the image of God. On behalf of Mennonite World Conference, the Creation Care Task Force (CCTF)
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COP 28 blogs by a Dutch Mennonite
Stories in this page: Endgame (13 December 2023) Scandalous (11 December 2023) Human rights (10 December 2023) The Netherlands in the spotlight (9 December 2023) Adaptation (6 December 2023) Time pressure (5 December 2023) Money, money, money (4 December 2023) Balancing act (3 December 2023) High level segment: kings, financiers and residents (1 December 2023)
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One new step each year
You are invited! Join us for Climate Pollinators, a webinar series on creation care. See below! On a map of Green Churches in the Netherlands, there is a green dot for the Mennonite congregation in Aalsmeer. Another dot represents Arboretumkerk (previously Doopsgezinde Gemeente Wageningen), located a province over. “Six years ago, the church (in Aalsmeer)
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Eco-theology reconciles the church with nature
You are invited! Join us for Climate Pollinators, a webinar series on creation care. See below! When human beings were created in Genesis, “This was the first mission of the human… to both enjoy but also to protect and take care of creation,” says Danang Kristiawan. Danang Kristiawan is the pastor of the GITJ (Gereja
