Faith and Life Commission stories

  • The beating heart of MWC 

    Deacons  The responsibilities of the Deacons Commission include overseeing the Global Church Sharing Fund (GCSF), fostering prayer within the Anabaptist communion (sending the Prayer Network email, hosting Online Prayer Hour and collaborating with the president on pastoral letters), and deacon visits.  From 2022 to the end of 2024, the Deacons Commission approved 20 GCSF proposals…

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    MWC commisions meeting

  • Seeking common witness together  

    MWC-WCRC dialogue creates statement and study guide  “The search for peace starts within the body of Christ,” says Tom Yoder Neufeld, chair of MWC’s Faith & Life Commission. As Mennonite World Conference celebrates 100 years of living out unity within the Anabaptist family, our leaders are also working on our mission to relate with other…

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    MWC-WCRC dialogue in Canada

  • In memoriam: Pope Francis (1936-2025)

    Photo: Ashwin Vaswani/Unsplash Mennonite World Conference joins Catholics and other faith communities across the world in mourning the loss of Pope Francis, who died on 21 April 2025, at the age of 88. He had been recovering at his residence Domus Sanctae Marthae after hospitalization for bilateral pneumonia. “With gratitude, we remember the life of…

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    Pope Francis

  • Holy Spirit works through Catholic synod 

    “It was necessary to take courage: it’s another world, another vocabulary, another way of thinking. How was I to bring my own questions and be respectfully present as a guest while being fully Mennonite?” Anne-Cathy Graber asked these questions as she received an invitation to attend the Vatican’s Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod…

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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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  • The unity of the Spirit

    About the Faith & Life Commission  Anabaptist churches around the world live their faith diversely, addressing local challenges and opportunities while adhering to Shared Convictions.   The Faith & Life Commission enables MWC member churches to receive and provide counsel on Christian faith and practice, as well as on Anabaptist witness in the world today. This…

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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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  • Global gathering mourns, repents and reconciles

    The rain came with a cool breeze, driving humid heat out the open church windows. So began “That the World May Know” (John 17:23), the fourth Global Gathering of the Global Christian Forum (GCF) in Accra, Ghana.   The gathering 16-19 April 2024 marked the 25th anniversary of the Global Christian Forum. This is unique space…

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  • “Remember your baptism”

    Could Anabaptist-Mennonites practice “remembering our baptism” as a tool for lifelong discipleship? Although they often baptize infants, both Catholics and Lutherans call upon the believer – sometimes every year – to “remember your baptism” into a life of discipleship. Former MWC general secretary Larry Miller learned this through the five-year process of trilateral dialogues between…

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  • A witness to the gospel together

    One city, one decade, two movements, 500 years. Today, representatives of Mennonite World Conference (MWC) have embarked on dialogues with representatives of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), a movement that also arose in Zurich in the 1500s.   Four MWC representatives and three WCRC representatives began dialogues at Camp Squeah, B.C., Canada, for several…

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