• Terms renewed and specialists appointed 

    As Mennonite World Conference’s Executive Committee and General Council delegates gather for worship, fellowship and discernment, there are farewells and hellos. Members of the Executive Committee and the Commission serve six-year terms.   The terms are staggered to ensure continuity.  Executive Committee  The Executive Committee is elected from the General Council (GC) and meets annually. Two…

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    Terms renewed and specialists appointed 
  • Living in a new era 

    César García (right) interviewed church leaders from other traditions who were present throughout General Council meetings in May 2025. (l-r) Paul Tché, Tim Gee, Neil Vigers, Hanns Lessing (with microphone), Samuel van der Maas,  Anne-Cathy Graber (MWC secretary for ecumenical relations). “Reconciliation is central to our faith as Anabaptists,” said César García, Mennonite World Conference…

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    Living in a new era 
  • The beating heart of MWC 

    Deacons  The responsibilities of the Deacons Commission include overseeing the Global Church Sharing Fund (GCSF), fostering prayer within the Anabaptist communion (sending the Prayer Network email, hosting Online Prayer Hour and collaborating with the president on pastoral letters), and deacon visits.  From 2022 to the end of 2024, the Deacons Commission approved 20 GCSF proposals…

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    The beating heart of MWC 
  • Seeking common witness together  

    MWC-WCRC dialogue creates statement and study guide  “The search for peace starts within the body of Christ,” says Tom Yoder Neufeld, chair of MWC’s Faith & Life Commission. As Mennonite World Conference celebrates 100 years of living out unity within the Anabaptist family, our leaders are also working on our mission to relate with other…

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    Seeking common witness together  
  • In memoriam: Pope Francis (1936-2025)

    Photo: Ashwin Vaswani/Unsplash Mennonite World Conference joins Catholics and other faith communities across the world in mourning the loss of Pope Francis, who died on 21 April 2025, at the age of 88. He had been recovering at his residence Domus Sanctae Marthae after hospitalization for bilateral pneumonia. “With gratitude, we remember the life of…

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    In memoriam: Pope Francis (1936-2025)
  • GAMEO

    The Global Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO) is an online encyclopedia of more than 16,000 articles related to the Anabaptist movement of the sixteenth century, and to Mennonite, Hutterite, Amish, and Brethren in Christ groups descended from the Anabaptists. GAMEO is owned by six institutional partners, including Mennonite World Conference (MWC), and it enjoys a special…

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  • Holy Spirit works through Catholic synod 

    “It was necessary to take courage: it’s another world, another vocabulary, another way of thinking. How was I to bring my own questions and be respectfully present as a guest while being fully Mennonite?” Anne-Cathy Graber asked these questions as she received an invitation to attend the Vatican’s Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod…

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    Holy Spirit works through Catholic synod 
  • Transmission

    Transmission is the title given to a series of 5 films of 10 minutes which present Anabaptist thought to people around the world to encourage a life of faith created by Affox AG, a multimedia production company. We would like to do this by providing a glimpse at the journeys we experience as disciples of Jesus…

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    Transmission
  • The ‘Anabaptist Tradition’ – Reclaiming its gifts, heeding its weaknesses

    A teaching resource from the Faith and Life Commission What does it mean for member churches of Mennonite World Conference to share anAnabaptist identity? What is the value of Anabaptist “tradition” – and what does that wordmean in a global context? What are our Anabaptist understandings of mission andfellowship? In 2009, the newly appointed Faith…

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  • Testing Faith and Tradition

    Testing Faith and Traditionthe volume from Europe, released in 2006 (also available in Spanish, French, German and Dutch).

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  • Stewardship for All?

    Stewardship for All?,  by Bedru Hussein and Lynn Miller

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