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Le Réseau mennonite francophone : recontre avec Jonathan Bornman
– Introduction Max Wiedmer jusqu’à 2’42’’ – Jonathan jusqu’à 13’32’’ – Intervention Matthew Krabill jusqu’à 13’56’’ – Intervention Siaka Traore jusqu’à la fin 16’10”
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Living the Christian Life in Today’s World: Adventists and Mennonites in Conversation, 2011-2012
A Conversation between Mennonite World Conference and the Seventh-day Adventist Church 2011-2012 In 2011 and 2012, representatives of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and of the Mennonite World Conference met together for official conversations. In many respects the meetings proved to be a journey of mutual discovery. Background Mennonites and Adventists have had frequent
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Making Decisions by Consensus Guidelines
Strengths of Consensus (“becoming of one mind”) Decision-Making Consensus, a way of making decisions without voting, can enhance the participation of all members in General Council meetings, provide a collaborative and harmonious context for making decisions, and enable representatives to discern together the will of God (Eph. 5:17) for the church and for MWC. Steps
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Making peace a way of life
During the past two years, MWC asked member conferences for accounts of experiences in peacemaking. MWC’s Peace Council considered these stories during two days of meeting in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, in August 2003. The following summary was developed out of that discussion. 1. Continuum of peacemaking activities: All Christians are called to be peacemakers, but this
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Meeting Muslims as guests, hosts and mutual partners
Scripture offers three models for relating faithfully to Muslim neighbors as a reflection of the Trinitarian God. Participants will consider their own relationships to Muslims as we reflect on examples of hosts (Kenya and North America), guests (Somalia), and mutual partners (Tanzania and the Allies for Peace project). Presenter: Peter Sensenig serves with MMN and
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Membership Application to the Global Anabaptist Peace Network (GAPN)
The Global Anabaptist Peace Network (GAPN) is a network that seeks to connect and support peace organizations (agencies, schools, training programs, research projects, think-tanks, activist-focused initiatives, activists, scholars) that have emerged from and serve our global Anabaptist-Mennonite church communion. Our hope is to provide a supportive community as we work together at making our world a better
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God’s People in Mission: An Anabaptist Perspective
A Statement of the MWC Mission Commission God is a missionary God. Jesus is a missionary Lord. The Holy Spirit is a missionary empowerer. The entire Bible is a missional book. The whole church is a missional people. Therefore, by the grace of God, as an Anabaptist faith community 1. ORIGINS We lead people to
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God’s Shalom Project
God’s Shalom Project, by Bernhard Ott
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Growing in faithfulness: Living out our baptism
Guide for study and reflection on Baptism and Incorporation into the Body of Christ, the Church: The Report of the Trilateral Conversations between Lutherans, Mennonites and Catholics 2012-2017 by Thomas R Yoder Neufeld, on behalf of the Faith and Life Commission This study guide is an aid for member churches of the Mennonite World Conference to receive and process
