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Courier 2025 / 40.1
A challenge for the ages It’s a double – even triple – anniversary for Mennonite World Conference this year. For one hundred years, Anabaptist-related national churches have been meeting together to acknowledge we are one body of Christ together, and to encourage and help each other in fellowship, worship, service and witness. For five hundred…
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A celebration of ecumenism, joy, confession and hope
We invite everyone to worship with us! The worship service marking the culmination of Mennonite World Conference’s 500th anniversary event in Zurich, Switzerland, will be livestreamed. The event takes place Thursday, 29 May 2025, at 15:00 UTC. (Please note an earlier version gave the incorrect time. 15:00 UTC is when the service begins; tune in…
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Invitation to screen Mennonite documentary
Celebrating 500 years of Anabaptism, the new documentary, Where the Cottonwoods Grow, is booking screenings in communities around the world. You are invited to be part of it by arranging your own local screening. Where the Cottonwoods Grow follows the 1874 migration of Mennonites from Imperial Russia (Ukraine) to the West – a journey of…
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Activities for thinkers and movers
There will be something for everyone at The Courage to Love, a one-day event to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Anabaptism, 29 May 2025. Activities for the registration-free event in Zurich will include a panel discussion and a “story trail.” A world on fire “Most early Anabaptists advocated for nonviolent witness in a context of…
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Anniversaries, fellowship and consensus
Around the world, Anabaptists are marking 500 years of our Jesus-following movement with worship services, historical lectures and regional gatherings. For Mennonite World Conference (MWC), the anniversary year coincides with the triennial meeting of the General Council. Additionally, 2025 is a double anniversary: it also marks 100 years of MWC drawing together Anabaptists into one…
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Commemorating 500 years of Anabaptism
Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday 2025 Part A: Origin of Anabaptism in 1525 Part B: Origin of Anabaptists/Mennonites in your own country Part C: WCRC and MWC Common Statement of Confession, Gratitude and Commitment Part D: A Responsive reading of gratefulness, based on Psalm 136 This content is provided to give context for Anabaptism@500 years –…
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History of MWC
The Anabaptist movement dates its formal beginnings to 21 January 1525, when a group of young people gathered in a home close to the Grossmnster cathedral in Zurich, Switzerland, to commit adult baptism, a subversive act at the time.
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Anabaptism@500 tours
*For the most up to date information, see the event subsite:* Self-guided tours Tours with Tourmagination Tours with Weldon TourMagination: Historian and former Hesston College professor John Sharp will lead the 15-day Celebrate 500: Classic Anabaptist Heritage Tour, May 19 – June 3, 2025 TourMagination: Dutch Mennonite Ayold Fanoy will lead the 15-day…
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Counting on love
In 2025, the global Anabaptist movement looks back over 500 years of existence. Mennonite World Conference invites all to a major event on Ascension Day,29 May 2025, in Zurich, Switzerland. Even as we look back on a long past, the focus of the commemoration is on the current reality of the Anabaptist movement. Who are…
