• Peace Sunday 2023 – Activities

    Community Mapping Creating a social “family” tree  Purpose: to highlight the many and broad social connections that we as communities of faith have.   Hopefully this result in a beautiful, wide, vibrant and colourful tree that expands across the wall, highlighting the many connections the church community has.  With permission, send your story and photo…

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  • Membership Application: 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 church communion. Our hope is to provide a supportive community as we work together at making our world a…

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  • Time to correct the page

    “Indigenous solidarity hits the heart of what we do in the Philippines with Coffee for Peace,” says Joji Pantoja, chair of the Peace Commission (2015-2022). The Peace Commission drafted a Statement of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples that was accepted by the Mennonite World Conference General Council in 2018. 

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    Time to correct the page
  • Jesus’ message of resilience and liberation

    Reading: Matthew 5:3-20 In June 1981, our family moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia, where my parents were to teach in a Baptist seminary that wanted more Anabaptist input. We arrived at a particularly raucous point in Bolivian history. In July 1980, Luis García Meza, a commander of the Bolivian army, led a coup d’etat, initiating a…

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    Jesus’ message of resilience and liberation
  • Finding new ways to respond

    Resilience in the face of the pandemic When we look back at what happened in the last two years all throughout the world, one could just offer a sigh. We were never prepared for this. Being locked down for several months in the Philippines forced us to reconfigure our social life. We tend to look…

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    Finding new ways to respond
  • Peace with broken pieces

    The power of resilience A Peace Sunday 2022 testimony “The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to him” (Jeremiah 18:4). This theme has been discussed a lot recently, especially since the pandemic, while some of us may be struggling with…

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    Peace with broken pieces
  • Peace Sunday 2022 – Activities page

    Download and print the page to cut out fruits and vegetables for the Peace Sunday activity. https://mwc-cmm.org/resources/peace-sunday-2022-worship-resource

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  • Peace Sunday 2022 – worship resource

    Theme and texts Theme Being a new creation in the midst of external turmoil Why this theme was chosen How do we maintain resilience in hardship, turmoil and conflict? How do we maintain our hope for something better when times are tough? This year’s Peace Sunday resources will explore the ways in which people throughout…

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  • Peace amid the storms of life

    “As followers of Jesus, we follow his example and work to bring peace in the midst of chaos.” Member churches around the world celebrated Peace Sunday 2021 using Mennonite World Conference’s Peace Sunday worship resource: “Finding hope and healing in crisis.”   Amos Ganjboir and Rajendra Masih at Bethel Mennonite Church, Balodgahan, India, worked for three days to paint a backdrop and…

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    Peace amid the storms of life
  • Peace Sunday 2021 – Prayers

    Establish your peace Dear God, In these times of searching for peace and resolution to conflictsEstablish your peace, O Lord! In the midst of corruption, impunity and violence,Establish your peace, O Lord! In the midst of the journey of your Colombia people,Establish your peace, O Lord! In this searching for justice and peace for Colombia,Establish…

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  • Peace Sunday 2021 – Liturgies for gathering and benediction

    Call to Worship: Turning a cheek Strength is commanding the wind and sea to obey,Strength is wielding a slingshot in the face of a raging giant.Strength is accepting vulnerability from inside the boat,Strength is standing in solidarity with the powerless.Strength is turning a cheek,Strength is loving an enemy.We come to worshipa God who redefines our…

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    Peace Sunday 2021 – Liturgies for gathering and benediction
  • Peace Sunday 2021 – Songs

    Stand by Me When the storms of life are raging,Stand by me (stand by me); (2x)When the world is tossing meLike a ship upon the sea,Thou who rulest wind and water,Stand by me (stand by me). –Charles Albert Tindley (1851–1933) was a self-taught songwriter and Methodist Episcopal minister. Hymnary.org says: “Tindley was known for being…

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    Peace Sunday 2021 – Songs