• What does it mean to be a Peace Church? 

    Peace Sunday 2025 – Testimony A story of the church in Myanmar  What does it mean to be a Historic Peace Church – or, rather, a church dedicated to the ways of Christ’s peace?   This is the question that the Mennonite church in Myanmar wrestles with as the ongoing conflict there continues to affect many…

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    What does it mean to be a Peace Church? 
  • Redrawing our relationships of proximity 

    Peace Sunday 2025 – Teaching Resource Sermon on Matthew 22:34–40  “Vecino” or “vecina” (neighbour). This is one of the ways we refer to the different people around us in Bogota, Colombia, whether they live in our building, the house next door, or we meet them in a store or other shared and public places. We…

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    Redrawing our relationships of proximity 
  • Peace Sunday 2025 – Activities

    Who is our neighbour? What is the gospel?  Enact “Samarital Acts” (Luke 10:25-37) in the community  OR  Explore the meaning of “gospel” in the story and notice the different practical ways in which it is embodied in Luke 4.  1. Create multi-generational groups to explore the assignment together over four weeks. 2. Within the groups,…

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    Peace Sunday 2025 – Activities
  • Peace Sunday 2025 – Prayers and Liturgies

    Prayers and Liturgies A litany for the moment  Responsive reading: one voice for the regular text, all voices for the bold text. All voices join on bold and italic text.  God of surprising birth You are not the saviour we expect, Your power does not look like the power We want our God to demonstrate.  We wait.  We…

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    Peace Sunday 2025 – Prayers and Liturgies
  • Peace Sunday 2025 – Song Information

    We want peace “We Want Peace” isn’t just a song title. It’s a call. A prayer. And a mission. We wrote this song because we don’t believe that violence can be the solution to our problems. “War is Contrary to the Will of God”, wrote the World Council of Churches in 1948 after the end…

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    Peace Sunday 2025 – Song Information
  • Peace Sunday 2025 – worship resource

    Theme The Courage to Love Why this theme was chosen Enacting love is a courageous act.Over and over again, Jesus invites and encourages his followers (and listeners) to embody acts of love, highlighting how dangerous – and therefore courageous – such acts are or can be.These Peace Sunday resources seek to explore, nourish and unpack…

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    Peace Sunday 2025 – worship resource
  • 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 
  • 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 
  • A pastoral letter from Anabaptists in Ecuador

    A state of “internal armed conflict” has been declared in Ecuador since January 2024. The government continues to struggle against violence from organized crime groups. The three Mennonite national churches in Ecuador – Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Ecuatoriana (IEME – MWC member church), Iglesia Cristiana Anabautista Menonita de Ecuador (ICAME), Iglesia Cristiana Menonita (ICME) – call…

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    A pastoral letter from Anabaptists in Ecuador
  • A pastoral letter regarding legal action for the protection of religious liberties

    Beloved sisters and brothers We call you to prayer for our siblings in the USA who are taking legal action that seeks to restore the rights of people of faith to gather, worship and serve without government interference. Mennonite Church USA joins more than 20 Christian and Jewish communities in this action. The current presidential…

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    A pastoral letter regarding legal action for the protection of religious liberties