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Resources on creation care
Posted: April 12, 2023 | Category: News
One encouraging piece of news about creation care is that there are an increasing number of good organizations and websites with excellent resources. The Creation Care Task Force of MWC recommends the following as particularly good sites to start... more/más/suite
Reading lessons in creation
Posted: March 29, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
Then we read Scripture out under the open sky, it comes alive in new ways. more/más/suite
A lunch break in the presence of God
Posted: March 29, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
The “pause for prayer” at the Mennonite church of ChâtenayMalabry (Paris, France) was created in March 2021as part of the journey towards Easter in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initiated by our former pastor, Silvie Hege, it took the form of... more/más/suite
Journeying into the unknown, tasting goodness now
Posted: March 20, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
South Korea was very successful in its response to the pandemic, especially during the early stages. The virus was contained and death rates were low although the government refrained from issuing drastic measures such as lockdowns or business... more/más/suite
Always trust in God
Posted: March 20, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
May glory be given to the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for his good deeds. By the grace of God, in Congo the pandemic was not as cruel as it was under other skies. Aside from the hygiene lessons given regularly and generally by the... more/más/suite
Following Jesus for real
Posted: March 16, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
Today, there are three national Mennonite churches in Ecuador, one of which is a member church of Mennonite World Conference. They form a small but interconnected group of churches living out Anabaptist faith in a largely Catholic country. more/más/suite
Unity with a purpose
Posted: March 7, 2023 | Category: From Our Leaders
According to our MWC vision, worship is one of the purposes of being one, of enjoying a global community of faith, of being a worldwide communion. In that sense, it follows the emphasis the book of Revelation gives to worship in a multicultural... more/más/suite
Life and faith within God’s community
Posted: March 2, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
We never imagined that the pandemic and its scars would affect our lives and the lives of our institutions to the extent it has. The church could not divorce itself from the difficult realities we lived through, and that still affects the “new... more/más/suite
More Courier in your inbox
Posted: February 27, 2023 | Category: News
In 2023, we want to offer you more opportunities to relate with Anabaptist-related churches worldwide as a global family of faith together. Courier will come to you four times in 2023: Readers will receive April and October issues in print or via... more/más/suite
Meet MWC treasurer Sunoko Lin
Posted: February 22, 2023 | Category: From Our Leaders
MWC is a gathering place for each member church to encourage and strengthen each other by sharing resources with one another. more/más/suite
Returning home
Posted: February 13, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
Ruth is the only book in the biblical canon named after a foreign woman. The book centres on Ruth, a Moabite, and her mother-in-law, Naomi, who return to the land of Judah. Calamity, displacement, barrenness, death and survival can be found in the... more/más/suite
God’s love, forgiveness and reconciliation
Posted: February 10, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
In Africa, when we talk about celebrating, we are unpacking robust and unfettered joy, loud and heartfelt singing, vibrant dancing to music and drums, ululating, whistling, stamping of feet and clapping of hands. Celebration denotes a merry heart!... more/más/suite
“Very good” in troubled times
Posted: February 3, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
Saturday morning God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. This is what Genesis tells us when God had created heaven and earth. God is celebrating the goodness of all creation. Is this still true? Is this “very good” still... more/más/suite
The house of God is never finished
Posted: January 18, 2023 | Category: From Our Leaders
It feels like a big responsibility; however, after four years of being president elect, I don’t know if I’m ready, but let’s begin. In MWC, we work as a team: the officers, Executive Committee, staff – we all work together. I feel honoured and... more/más/suite
How can I celebrate?
Posted: January 8, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
I am tired of war, conflict, hunger, poverty, division, hatred, gun violence, black and white class difference, the oppression of women, slaughter of children and women, fake news, liars and unjust authorities and leaders and so many, many issues... more/más/suite
Intergenerational solidarity relationships
Posted: January 8, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
Saturday morning When we think of older generations, we think of those who came before us, the ones whose shoulders we stand on. However, when we think about the solidarity of our relationship with those generations, there seems to be a gap... more/más/suite
Let us mutually care for one another
Posted: January 8, 2023 | Category: Testimonies
Friday night Come to me, all you that are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden... more/más/suite
Interethnic and ecumenical work in violent contexts
Posted: December 30, 2022 | Category: Testimonies
Friday morning Ephesians 2:14-17 “ For he is our peace, in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he... more/más/suite
United in the defence of life: water more precious than gold
Posted: December 30, 2022 | Category: Testimonies
Friday morning Once the laws became progressively more flexible during the lockdown we all experienced in 2020, I was able to cycle through the mountains in my home city. Although we were not allowed to mill about on the street, we were allowed to... more/más/suite
Together across barriers
Posted: December 13, 2022 | Category: News
“Our duty is to bring peace and love.” These words, relayed from Indonesian by a translator at the closing worship service of Mennonite World Conference’s Assembly 17 in Indonesia, came not from one of the featured speakers but from the governor of... more/más/suite
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