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Called to witness
Posted: April 22, 2021 | Category: From Our Leaders
The Anabaptist world has changed immensely since the first assembly the Mennonite World Conference (MWC) organized in 1925. Our world family has witnessed a numerical transformation in ethnic, geographic and linguistic terms. Our current cultural... more/más/suite
Rely on God for everything
Posted: March 4, 2021 | Category: Testimonies
The story of Brethren In Christ Church Nepal First mission efforts Brethren In Christ Church (BIC) Nepal was pioneered by missionaries from the Brethren In Christ church in Bihar, India. In turn, the BIC mission station in Bihar, India, was started... more/más/suite
A fresh wind of the Spirit
Posted: February 22, 2021 | Category: From Our Leaders
A “great multitude...from all tribes and peoples and languages” worship around the throne of God (Revelation 7). That vision aptly describes Mennonite World Conference. But it stands against a backdrop of disaster that feels too familiar today... more/más/suite
Meet your YABs Committee
Posted: February 16, 2021 | Category: News
“As we walk with Jesus in relationship, his peace flows out of us into our relationships with others. It must be based in love,” says Young AnaBaptist Lilia Aranguren a member of Iglesia Menonita Venga tu Reino, Villas de Granada, Bogotá, Colombia... more/más/suite
Grieving in the time of COVID-19
Posted: January 19, 2021 | Category: Testimonies
A new solidarity, different ways Our Mennonite community of Pfastatt, France, is located five minutes from a megachurch that was one of the most significant centers of the COVID-19 epidemic at the time of a week of fasting and prayer in their... more/más/suite
New ways of learning for a new time
Posted: January 13, 2021 | Category: Testimonies
Nindyo Sasongko believes theology should be publicly available to a wider audience. His experiment in online discussions began in November 2018; when the pandemic hit, “Theovlogy” increased in frequency to meet the demand for online means of... more/más/suite
Ambitious dreams for a more just world
Posted: December 3, 2020 | Category: Testimonies
In both rural and urban Zimbabwe, the majority of households grow some of their own food. Changes in climate patterns are apparent to everyone. The droughts used to come every 10 years, then every five. And in a global pandemic, and the situation is... more/más/suite
Prayers for ecumenical dialogue
Posted: December 1, 2020 | Category: Testimonies
Open our arms and minds to embrace the broad shoulders of a church bigger than we can imagine. more/más/suite
COVID-19 in the Global South
Posted: November 25, 2020 | Category: Testimonies
We collected voices from around the world on the church in the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. See below for respondent bios. How are we learning new ways to do church due to pandemic restrictions? “Now more than ever, various forms of technology... more/más/suite
Where are we looking?
Posted: November 23, 2020 | Category: From Our Leaders
Times of uncertainty. In such times people look for guidance. Like in a storm, people need a lighthouse to help them navigate through dangerous waters. COVID-19 has been a time of enormous uncertainty, now deepened by a financial crisis,... more/más/suite
MWC financial update 2020
Posted: October 19, 2020 | Category: News
You make a difference in our Global Anabaptist community when you contribute to the ministry of MWC. We thank you: national member churches, local congregations and individuals. Designated funds are used to carry out specific ministries; this year,... more/más/suite
Receptive ecumenism
Posted: October 10, 2020 | Category: Testimonies
Becoming vulnerable to the other There is a moment when everything changes among the students who take the Mission and Ecumenism course at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The student composition of this compulsory course is quite... more/más/suite
Follow the fire: walking with Jesus in the Spirit’s presence
Posted: September 3, 2020 | Category: 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:... more/más/suite
From teaching math to multiplying churches
Posted: August 12, 2020 | Category: 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... more/más/suite
Building paths with those who are different
Posted: August 11, 2020 | Category: 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... more/más/suite
Grace at the heart of our witness
Posted: August 9, 2020 | Category: 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 (... more/más/suite
Jesus' credibility
Posted: July 23, 2020 | Category: 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... more/más/suite
A Theology of Interchurch Hospitality and Denominational Identity
Posted: July 19, 2020 | Category: Testimonies
In the household of God ( ecumene ) we need to be ready to live in “reconciled diversity,” being both brave in claiming our denominational heritage, legacy and contribution, and humble in acknowledging our limited understanding. more/más/suite
Peaceful waters: the Mennonite church in the Caribbean
Posted: July 17, 2020 | Category: 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-... more/más/suite
The blessing of an ecumenical team
Posted: July 16, 2020 | Category: Testimonies
Over the last year, Hong Kong has experienced one of the most difficult times in her history. In our churches, it has been difficult as well. A common question for people in our congregations is “What is the standpoint of the church?” Pastors have... more/más/suite
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