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Entrusted with the task of bearing messages
Courier: “A messenger … entrusted with the task of bearing messages.” That’s how MWC General Secretary Paul N. Kraybill introduced MWC’s new magazine in its first issue in 1986. “The 1984 Mennonite World Conference Assembly at Strasbourg echoed a cry heard often before and since. We don’t know enough about each other. We are a worldwide community, but our knowledge is local and limited. In
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Rhythms and melodies carry images of encounters
I have now participated in four global Assemblies of Mennonite World Conference. I am amazed at how our shared faith brings diversity to life in unity.
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Solidarity: What Will We Build Together?
The light of possibility before us is extraordinary: a world where people are healed enough to know their worth, and therefore capable of relationships marked by genuine intimacy, dignity and respect. A world where powerful technologies and global connections bridge divides rather than deepen them, becoming tools for mutual understanding and shared flourishing.
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Imagination
Binuangan Mennonite Christian Church in the Philippines celebrated Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday through singing “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” “Blessed Assurance,” “Trust and Obey” and “God You’re Good.” Some of the songs were sung in the language-Ilokano. Ilokano serves as the common dialect used alongside local dialects such as Kankana-ey, Bugkalot, Ibaloi, Kalanguya,
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A community act that shapes our identity
Perspectives — Paraguay Every week, during chapel on Campus IBA (Instituto Biblíco Asunción, Paraguay), we dedicate some time to worshipping our God through music. Since many different theological traditions, with varied cultural roots, converge at our Bible institute, one would think that these differences would carry more weight than they actually do. Even so, the choruses play an important role in strengthening our unity
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Unity you can hear
Worshipping together, particularly singing together, is often cited as a highlight of Mennonite World Conference Assemblies. After all, there is nothing quite like singing in a gathering of several thousand people as siblings in Christ. Even when not everyone speaks the same language, music has a way of unifying that other experiences do not.
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Courier 2026 / 41.1
A messenger Courier: “A messenger … entrusted with the task of bearing messages.”That’s how MWC General Secretary Paul N. Kraybill introduced MWC’snew magazine in its first issue in 1986. “The 1984 Mennonite World Conference Assembly at Strasbourgechoed a cry heard often before and since. We don’t know enoughabout each other. We are a worldwide community,
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A 500-year witness
As we celebrate our 500th anniversary, we remember that beginning with gratitude and humility through the theme Courage to Love, inspired by 1 John 4:7-21 and Psalm 136.
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A tangible source of support and testimony
The tasks of Commissions are to prepare issues or materials for consideration by the General Council, give guidance and propose resources to MWC or member churches and facilitate MWC-related networks or fellowships working together on matters of common interest and focus.
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Living together as one
MWC: One hundred years of communion In circumstances remarkably similar to today’s, a group of Mennonites set out on a pilgrimage from South Russia (today’s Ukraine) to Zurich, Switzerland, in 1925. They carried a message from the All Russian Conference of Mennonites to present at the first global gathering of the Mennonite World Conference. The
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Reflect back to reflect forward
On this 100th anniversary of Mennonite World Conference, leaders were gathered at Schönblick, Germany, in May to celebrate and to continue the work of MWC through the gathering of the General Council. The Courier editor gathered former leaders (Danisa Ndlovu, J. Nelson Kraybill, Larry Miller, Nancy Heisey) to reflect on the “sweet memories” of watching MWC
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Courier 2025 / 40.4
Unity is God’s gift “So that they may be one, as we are one,” Jesus prayed in John 17:22. This prayer for those who follow Jesus has been acutely relevant since the moment he spoke it. The Anabaptist movement whose 500th anniversary we mark this year was a “church split” at the time. The many
