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Missional Frontier: Uruguay
Uruguay has an extension of 176.215 Km². It borders with Brazil in the north, and with Argentina in the west along the Uruguay River and the south along La Plata River, as well as the Atlantic Ocean. There were 3,500,000 inhabitants in the country in 2010, half of which live in and around the Capital,…
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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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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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Koinonia – The Gift We Hold Together
A teaching resource from the Faith and Life Commission The word koinonia has rightly become a central term and concept for Mennonite World Conference. In addresses, publications and programmatic efforts, leaders have been nudging the global Anabaptist community to a deeper relationship with each other. Even when we don’t use the word koinonia itself, much…
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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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Mennonite Quarterly Review 95
Baptism and Incorporation into the Body of Christ, the ChurchLutheran-Mennonite-Roman Catholic Trilateral Conversations 2012–2017Report of the Lutheran-Mennonite-Roman Catholic Trilateral Dialogue Commission On behalf of The Lutheran World FederationMennonite World ConferencePontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity The Mennonite Quarterly Review 95 (January 2021) In This IssueBaptism and Incorporation into the Body of Christ, the Church: Lutheran-Mennonite-Roman…
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Methods and curriculum for teaching mission from an Anabaptist perspective
Lawrence YoderAAM MeetingEMS 12/8/00 “Methods and curriculum for teaching missions from an Anabaptist perspective” As look at the issues of teaching Christian mission, a very basic challenge is to invite students to discover God’s mission, and to get on board with what God is doing and wants to do in the world. The basic prayer…
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Healthy church boundaries in power and sexuality
Indonesia 2022: workshop Practical tools for promoting appropriate behavior in power and sexual relationships in leadership and pastoral work based on Healthy Boundaries material developed by Faith Trust Institute, with adaptations for Latin America, sections of the Colombian Mennonite Church’s ethics manual, and training experiences. Presenters: Alix Lozano served as president of the Mennonite Church…
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God’s Shalom Project
God’s Shalom Project, by Bernhard Ott
