Purpose
The Mission Commission provides MWC member churches with resources and a forum for dialogue on global witness and service. The commission brings together the Global Anabaptist Service Network (GASN) and the Global Mission Fellowship (GMF) and enables dialogue and direction around pressing issues and opportunities in global witness and service. For mission agencies and churches, the commission hopes to stimulate global, continental, regional, and local partnerships in outreach, focusing on places where people have not yet had the opportunity to know Jesus Christ. For service agencies, the commission seeks to enable both dialogue and inter-agency collaboration in response to the pressing needs of God’s people and our communities everywhere.
Key Documents
- Triennial goals (2018-2021)
- Terms of Reference for the Mission Commission, GASN and GMF
- Current structure of the Mission Commission/GASN/GMF
God’s People in Mission: An Anabaptist Perspective
Missional Frontiers
Commission Members
Chair
James R Krabill
USA
Secretary
Rafael Zaracho
Paraguay
GMF steering committee chair
Nelson Okanya
USA/Kenya
Eladio Mondez
Philippines
GASN steering committee chair
Barbara Hege-Galle
Germany
Hyacinth Stevens
USA
Simon Okoth
Uganda
Felo Gracia
DR Congo
Stories by or about the Mission Commission
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A Mission Story of KMC – witnessing in faith
KMC traces her beginnings from Tanzania Mennonite Church (KMT). KMT inspired evangelists planted pioneer congregations in Kenya from 6 December 1942. Up till 1977 when the Conference was registered under Societies Act of Kenya, the KMT leadership oversaw the congregations.
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The Holy Spirit is at work among us
Like the chambers of a heart, the four MWC commissions serve the global community of Anabaptist-related churches, in the areas of deacons, faith and life, peace, mission. Commissions prepare materials for consideration by the General Council, give guidance and propose resources to member churches, and facilitate MWC-related networks or fellowships working together on matters of…
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Mission Commission calls Anabaptists to urgency in mission
Like the chambers of a heart, the four MWC commissions serve the global community of Anabaptist-related churches, in the areas of deacons, faith and life, peace, mission. Commissions prepare materials for consideration by the General Council, give guidance and propose resources to member churches, and facilitate MWC-related networks or fellowships working together on matters…
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Mennonite churches in DR Congo
Background The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country located in Central Africa, inhabited by nearly 80 million people, belonging to500 tribes and living on a surface of 2 345 410 square kilometers. The country experienced two waves of evangelism. The first evangelism occurred during the15thcentury through the first European explorers. This evangelism did not…
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Unity in the global family
Like the chambers of a heart, the four MWC commissions serve the global community of Anabaptist-related churches, in the areas of deacons, faith and life, peace, mission. Commissions prepare materials for consideration by the General Council, give guidance and propose resources to member churches, and facilitate MWC-related networks or fellowships working together on matters of…
