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COVID-19 global response fund helps churches
Posted: September 3, 2020 | Kategorie: News
“I have seen entire families in the garbage dumps looking to quench their hunger. I have also watched with sadness as they return the elderly from the hospitals because there are no possibilities to attend them, nor medicines to supply them,” said... Weiterlesen
Follow the fire: walking with Jesus in the Spirit’s presence
Posted: September 3, 2020 | Kategorie: Testimonies
Side by side, the mighty river of Pentecostals today and the heirs of the Anabaptist stream of the Christian tradition may seem fairly remote from each other, but the underground reality is more closely connected than one would first detect. Photo:... Weiterlesen
Season of Creation 2020 – 1
Posted: August 31, 2020 | Kategorie: From Our Leaders
Humility God of all the earth – Take us outside to your holy places. Take us out beyond our walls, Out where we can see our neighbours. Out past the garden With its ripe tomatoes and fat watermelons. Out where flowers bloom yellow and pink And sway... Weiterlesen
MWC charts course for future operations
Posted: August 26, 2020 | Kategorie: News
Postpones Assembly, adjusts terms of service, financial policies “Like the Israelites in the desert, as recorded in the book of Numbers, we’re on a journey together, trusting in God’s daily provision and presence,” said J. Nelson Kraybill, MWC... Weiterlesen
Ministry partner update: ICOMB – August 2020
Posted: August 21, 2020 | Kategorie: News
The International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) is made up of 21 national churches in 19 countries with approximately 450,000 members. ICOMB exists to facilitate relationships and ministries to enhance the witness and discipleship of its... Weiterlesen
MWC shifts Assembly to 2022
Posted: August 20, 2020 | Kategorie: News
Mennonite World Conference (MWC) decided to postpone the global Assembly until 2022: 5–10 July. In close consultation with the National Advisory Committee in host country Indonesia, the Executive Committee of MWC has decided not to hold the... Weiterlesen
MWC COVID-19 response fund reaches remote Indonesian island
Posted: August 14, 2020 | Kategorie: News
For people in Sumba Island, the COVID-19 pandemic may not be their top worry. Thanks to their remote location, less than two dozen infections have been confirmed on the island as of 4 August 2020. However, the community is devastated by the economic... Weiterlesen
Remember your baptism
Posted: August 12, 2020 | Kategorie: News
Trilateral dialogue report presents gifts and challenges The final report on the Lutheran-Mennonite-Roman Catholic Trilateral Conversation has been published. The report summarizes five years of theological consultations between the three communions... Weiterlesen
From teaching math to multiplying churches
Posted: August 12, 2020 | Kategorie: Testimonies
School graduations, church conferences, crime awareness and prayer meetings. All these take place in our church building with participation from local churches across denominations. We have many opportunities to be peacemakers in our area, working... Weiterlesen
"Peace in my heart"
Posted: August 12, 2020 | Kategorie: Testimonies
Esuno Kokoro uchini (The heart of Jesus is reflected in my heart). Esuno Heiwa uchini (I have the peace of Jesus in my heart). Mitsuru Ishido wrote this song to encourage Nasu Keiko, a fellow Mennonite church member who was sewing masks to donate to... Weiterlesen
Building paths with those who are different
Posted: August 11, 2020 | Kategorie: Testimonies
The ecumenical imperative comes from Jesus’ prayer during the passion vigil in Gethsemane. There, by way of his prayer to God, he declared his irrevocable commitment and will that Christians love one another. Jesus pleaded that his disciples “may... Weiterlesen
Grace at the heart of our witness
Posted: August 9, 2020 | Kategorie: Testimonies
Early Anabaptists left or were expelled from monasteries and congregations of the Roman Catholic church. But Anabaptists retained this very monastic ideal: that it is possible – essential – for Christians to take seriously the Sermon on the Mount (... Weiterlesen
MWC signs statement against nuclear weapons
Posted: August 4, 2020 | Kategorie: News
August 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Mennonite World Conference (MWC) has joined a wide coalition of faith-based communities from around the world that issued a call to governments to ratify... Weiterlesen
COVID-19 global response fund helps churches
Posted: Juli 31, 2020 | Kategorie: News
“The church’s response is unique in that we provide accompaniment rather than just distribute rations. This means walking together to feed not only the body but also the soul in these desperate times in which many have lost sight of the meaning of... Weiterlesen
“Renewal will come by daring”
Posted: Juli 30, 2020 | Kategorie: News
There was no “Anabaptist theology” in the 16th century – there were many Anabaptist theologies, says Astrid von Schlachta. The Mennonite historian is leading the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Anabaptism in 2025. “Daring” is the name of... Weiterlesen
MWC churches in action
Posted: Juli 29, 2020 | Kategorie: News
Responses to climate change are growing in many MWC member congregations. Here are a few examples. In Ethiopia, congregations of Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) are taking part in the national government’s Green Legacy Challenge to plant 5 billion... Weiterlesen
Jesus' credibility
Posted: Juli 23, 2020 | Kategorie: Testimonies
The way we relate with other churches has a direct impact in our missional witness. That is one reason, among many others, why Mennonite World Conference engages churches of other Christian traditions in dialogue. The credibility of Jesus is more... Weiterlesen
Peaceful waters: the Mennonite church in the Caribbean
Posted: Juli 17, 2020 | Kategorie: Testimonies
Beginning in the 1940s, Anabaptism was introduced to the Caribbean by American Mennonite missionaries. Today Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Puerto Rico have national Mennonite churches belonging to MWC membership; Trinidad and Tobago’s four-... Weiterlesen
Ministry partner update: ICOMB – July 2020
Posted: Juli 17, 2020 | Kategorie: Testimonies
Jean-Claude Ambeke is facing significant challenges as leader of the MB conferences in Angola – Igreja Evangelica dos Irmaos Menonitas en Angola (IEIMA). IEIMA is trying to raise funds to reopen the 17 churches that the government closed last year.Weiterlesen
COVID-19 global response fund helps churches
Posted: Juli 16, 2020 | Kategorie: News
“It will reflect our love of Christ to them; [that] we care and are concerned for them and it will also bring smile in their faces,” says Bishop Dr. Bijoy Kumar Roul, Chairman, Brethren In Christ Church, Cuttack, Odisha, India. Mennonite World... Weiterlesen
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