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    TourMagination: Historian and former Hesston College professor John Sharp will lead the 15-day Celebrate 500: Classic Anabaptist Heritage Tour, May 19 – June 3, 2025 

    TourMagination: Dutch Mennonite Ayold Fanoy will lead the 15-day Celebrate 500: Anabaptist Story in Europe Tour, May 19 – June 2, 2025 

    TourMagination Mennonite Archivist Conrad Stoesz will lead the 13-day 500 Years of Anabaptist Faith, Art & History Tour, May 28 – June 9, 2025 

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    TourMagination: Eastern Mennonite University

    ÒSwiss Mennonites + Swiss AlpsÓ 9-Day Tour hosted by Pastor Weldon Martens, Newton, Kansas (USA). The highlight will be Commemorating 500 Years of Anabaptism in Zurich on May 29, 2025 and several days touring in the scenic Swiss Alps. Information at www.tourwithweldon.com To join the ÒInterested ListÓ contact Weldon Martens at weldon.martens@gmail.com / 402-202-9276.

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  • The working group and project “Chant Anabaptiste” (anabaptist singing) began at the MWC Assembly in Asunción, Paraguay, 2009.

    The working group has met twice a year or more since then. It offers a calendar with scripture references for worship and music suggestions and arranges for articles on songs for the French monthly “Christ Seul”.  The website chantanbaptiste.ch site aims to :

    • create a link between people  interested in community singing or personal approach
    • encourage reflection on the place of singing in worship planning
    • Invite reflection on the message a song conveys
    • allow a judicious choice of songs according to the different moments of the liturgical year, the biblical text meditated on, the community or personal situation experienced
    • inform on the organization of music writing and composing workshops
    • participate in the reflection on the creation of a collection of Anabaptist songs in French.

    In this perspective, the working group seeks above all to play a facilitating role.

    https://chantanabaptiste.ch

  • Mennonite World Conference (MWC) gathers and equips member churches and local congregations to be the body of Christ together.

    Here are some blessings leaders and congregations receive through MWC:

    1.    A mosaic of a growing church: As we meet international Anabaptist sisters and brothers from other traditions and locations, we are inspired by their maturity and energy, and reminded of the scope and strength of God’s kingdom. We see the fruit of those who plant seeds of the gospel far from home Ð in the past and today. Revelation 7:9Ð10.

    • Read Courier magazine for perspectives and teaching on how faithful expressions of Anabaptist Christian discipleship (baptism, ordination, membership, relationship to the state, etc.) are carried out differently in local contexts. mwc-cmm.org/courier
    • Be encouraged that Anabaptist churches are thriving around the world. 
    • Collaborate in MWC’s international networks to have a bigger impact by building God’s kingdom together around the world: Global Mission Fellowship, Global Anabaptist Service Network, Women Theologians and emerging networks for peace, education, health and more.

    2.    Sharing gifts in the global family of faith: Every church has gifts to share, and every church has gifts to receive, whether biblical perspectives, faith experiences, witness, music, practical skills or money. MWC provides a structure for a post-colonial global community of faith where Western and Southern churches are brother and sisters in the faith with relational and financial resources to share. Hebrews 10:24Ð25.

    • Develop a mutual support relationship with a congregation in another country.
    • Share in the financial support of MWC on an equitable basis with other congregations around the world. It gives us perspective on congregational budget decisions.
    • Read Sharing Gifts in the Global Family of Faith to learn how to receive as well as how to give. 

    3.    MWC Prayer Network (six times a year): Stories/news from other Anabaptists around the world help us remember that our struggles and successes are not unique. MWC members who are struggling with issues of faith and life, ministering to congregations under persecution and serving alongside different groups gives us a larger picture of the kingdom of God. Through prayer, we share each other’s burdens and encourage each other. Colossians 1:9Ð11.

    4.    Global relationships: Churches in the Global South understand their need to cultivate relationship with other parts of the body of Christ. We are enriched by the diversity of gifts from local congregations around the world. 1 Corinthians 12:20Ð23.

    • Use MWC’s resources (like the Peace Sunday package).
    • Meet us in conversations on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram or comment on stories at mwc-cmm.org.    
    • Take advantage of opportunities to meet MWC leaders on local visits.
    • Subscribe to the monthly e-newsletter Info to receive news and testimonies from the global family. mwc-cmm.org/signup

    5.    Dialogue with other global Christian groups: Through interactions with Christians from other traditions, we better understand our own identity as Anabaptist Christians. Through MWC, we participate in international interchurch conversations with Lutherans, Catholics, Seventh Day Adventists and other global communions. Ephesians 2:14Ð16.

    6.    Learning opportunities for youth/young adults: Young adults have opportunity to learn and grow skills for church and vocation in cross-cultural settings through the Young Anabaptists (YABs) network, Global Youth Summits and YAMEN! (international exchange program). 1 Timothy 4:12.

    • Participate in a cultural exchange program for a year or to attend a Summit.
    • Join with the YABs network to develop relationships with young people across cultures.
    • Use YABs Fellowship Week resources to celebrate in solidarity with young adults around the world.

    7.    Worshipping with the global church: MWC provides opportunities to worship collectively in person or in spirit. 1 Chronicles 16:23Ð25.

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  • Liturgy Guide and Resources

    for the Weekend of Prayer and Action Against Hunger October 11-13, 2024

    For this Weekend of Prayer and Action Against Hunger, Christians from all around the world will gather for prayer and worship around the theme of global hunger and food justice.

    We offer this guide to support worship planners to develop a service of prayer or worship that fits your local context. You will find selections of prayers to choose from, which are offered to be used or adapted for your own community’s context.

    “Enough to Share”

    There are shared meals one will never forget. Years ago, I visited churches in Zimbabwe. It was a difficult time with incredibly high inflation and political turmoil with violence. We passed by a church building under construction in the suburbs of Harare. It was a working day. Spontaneously people came when they saw our cars. We sang and prayed together.

    We were about to leave, but someone asked us to stay. Women went to their homes and came back soon with chicken, rice, and salad. We sat down and shared a meal together. What a sign of love and welcome. I was blessed by the gracious gift of food, hospitality, and care. It was like light rising in the darkness. I was reminded that God’s kingdom is not a future dream. It becomes real in the middle of the injustices and hardships we are facing, such as increase of hunger, wars, armed conflicts, climate change, most affecting those who only cause few carbon emissions, etc. God’s kin-dom is real, today, when we share food with one another, explore new ways to grow wheat and vegetables, see Christ in the stranger and become God’s beloved community.

    Follow up questions:

    • Do you remember meals that touched and even changed your life?
    • With whom could you share food? Perhaps you wish to reach out to people with whom you never met for a meal?
    • Look at your life and at your community in the light of God’s promises in Isaiah 58,6-12.

    Any thoughts on how these promises transform yourself, your community and the world?

    —Bishop Rosemarie Wenner

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  • Liturgy: Sharing food with the Hungry Ð Isaiah 58: 6-12

    Conflict; an uneven global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic; the effects of climate change; high inflation; as well as the rising cost of food, fuel, and fertiliser are driving a polycrisis that is pushing tens of millions of girls, boys, and their families into extreme hunger.

    The number of people affected by acute food insecurity has nearly doubled over the past three years, from 135 million people across 55 countries and territories in 2019 to a record 258 million in 58 countries in 2022 Ð even more than last year’s mid-year projection that, without urgent action, 222 million across 53 countries and territories could face Ôcrisis’ (IPC 3) conditions or worse.

    In the face of dire statistics, we know that hunger has a nameÉ

    • Seven-month-old Hamdi weighed only 8.8 pounds in June when she arrived at a nurition clinic in Baidoa, Somalia. Health workers found her to have severe acute malnutrition,  exacerbated by acute watery diarrhea and measles. Drought in Somalia is not only impacting access to food.
    • Ten year old Peter in Kenya, whose family’s food supply has been impacted by drought and climate change.
    • 1-year old Nadia in Afghanistan, displaced and experiencing severe malnutrition.

    Nadia, Hamdi and Peter found help and support…but the situation globally remains a significant challenge. And hunger is in every neighbourhood and community.

    These realities are true in a world where there is enough to feed everyone….and so we pray for justice, for hearts to act and serve and for systems to change to take steps to end hunger.

    Worship resource

    • Opening prayer
    • Hymns & music
    • Hunger today
    • Prayer of Confession
    • Scriptures
    • Reflections
    • Examples of action
    • Prayers
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  • Why We Pray and Act Against Hunger

    The Focus of our Gathering

    Across the globe more than 41m people – around half of them children–are at risk of falling into famine in 43 countries. Famine is preventable and has no place in the 21st century. These people are not starving, they are being starved by conflict and violence; by inequality; the impacts of climate change; and by a fight against COVID-19 that has left them even further behind.

    Time is running out. Action must be taken now to prevent the needless deaths of tens of thousands of children. If the world stands by and does too little too late, children will starve to death. Hunger will also force children and their families to make dangerous survival choices, such
    as child marriage or child labour, and this will have lasting harmful consequences for girls and boys.

    Up to 811 million people were hungry in 2020, up by 161 million from 2019. This is a 25% increase from 2019, which is greater than the total increase over the past 5 years. Hunger increased in all regions of the world. Asia has the largest total number of hungry people, but Africa has the highest proportion of its population.

    In our time of worship, we will focus on the invitation from Jesus to follow him – ‘Feed my sheep.’

    We have the assurance that God sees and knows and hears the cry of each person experiencing hunger in the world today and invites us to participate in their redemption, ensuring that the daily needs of all people can be met. Our response, in hope-filled obedience, is to join in God’s
    redemptive work in the world.

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  • “Give us each day our daily bread”

    Across the globe, more than 41 million people – around half of them children – are now at risk of starvation in 43 countries. The global hunger crisis is driven by conflict, by climate change; and by the economic impacts of COVID-19. Even in countries where some have an abundance of food, many people are lacking the basics.

    Mennonite World Conference is working with a large group of Christian churches and networks to launch a weekend of prayer and action 16-17 October 2021. This will coincide with World Food Day on 16 October.

    Global church and network partners include ACT Alliance, Integral Alliance, Lutheran World Federation, Micah Global, Organization of African Instituted Churches, Salvation Army, World Council of Churches, World Evangelical Alliance, World Methodist Council and World Vision International.

    It will be a time for us, as followers of Christ, to unite across denominations in solidarity with our sisters and brothers, praying for them and with them, so that they can live their lives without hunger, with dignity, in all life’s fullness, experiencing the grace and love of God.

    During the course of the weekend, we invite our members to share a meal with other families and individuals, offer your prayers for those who are hungry, and reflect on the causes and impacts of hunger.

    On Sunday, 17 October 2021, we encourage local congregations to focus on this global hunger crisis in their Sunday service.

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  • Indonesia 2022: Workshop

    Our worldview as leaders is being changed from managing organizations into leading transformation and reconciliation in a changing world. Called to follow Jesus and His word, loving people, using right principles and motivations, understanding giftings and culture, we obey Holy Spirit’s daily guidance, leading and preparing passionate people for action.

    Presenter: Paul Gerhard DŸck; Chair of COBIM – Mennonite Brethren Conference in Brazil, Pastor in the 1st MB Church in Curitiba-Brazil, Member of the Board of the Mennonite School and Fidelis Faculty in Curitiba. Cooperation in ICOMB projects.

  • At the Mennonite World Conference Assembly in Indonesia Jessica is organizing the Global Church Village. This is a place where you can create exhibits from your Anabaptist church.

    Come by and visit to see performances, incredible art, and just have a place to be and charge your phone.

    We are a church of many cultures! Come and celebrate how we are each made in the image of God in all of our diversity and beauty!

    Global Church Village