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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 – 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 – 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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MWC 100th Anniversary Celebration
Watch the singing, praying and testifying to God’s faithfulness at 100th anniversary worship service on 25 May 2025 in Germany. The stage language for the video is English, but viewers can turn on the closed captioning/subtitles and then select “auto-translate” under the gear symbol to use machine translation to their preferred language.
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We want peace song information
Music & Lyrics: Dennis Thielmann © 2021 / French translation: Marie-Noëlle YoderArr: Dennis Thielmann & Karin Franz © 2025www.songsofpeace.ch Permission granted to MWC member churches for congregational use for Peace Sunday and Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday. For permissions for ongoing use or in larger group gatherings, see www.songsofpeace.ch/songs/wewantpeace or contact info@songsofpeace.ch
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YABs Fellowship Week 2025
Prepared by the YABs Committee for 22-29 June 2025 Theme: One body, many parts: loving and embracing our differences (Matthew 25:40). Why this theme was chosen: Each of us is uniquely made and deeply loved by God. Yet too often, difference becomes a wall. Because of appearance, language, identity, ways of thinking or living, some…
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Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday 2025
Theme The Courage to Love Why this theme was chosen The first baptisms in the Anabaptist tradition took place in secret in Zurich, Switzerland, on 21 January 1525. A small group of Jesus-followers acted together with courage on their shared understanding of Scripture and the church, different from their political and religious context. Today there…
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Speaker’s bureau
Invite the global church into your congregation! MWC member congregations are welcome to invite one MWC speaker per year to bring a message from the global Anabaptist-Mennonite family. This may be for Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday, Peace Sunday or any day you wish to give special attention to the global family. Please consider giving an…
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True Evangelical Faith
Assembly 17 – Indonesia 2022 – Songs True evangelical faith,Menno Simons/Larry Nickel© 2013 Cypress Choral MusicReprinted / Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-740570
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Sari Sristhi ke Malik Tumhi Ho
Assembly 17 – Indonesia 2022 – Songs Sari Srishti Ke Malik Tumhi HoMr Kiran Kumar PradhanReprinted / Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-740570
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Segala Puji Syukur
Assembly 17 – Indonesia 2022 – Songs Segala Puji Syukur / Shout for joy / Zanmei zhuNiko Njotoahardjo, Fountain of Praise Ministries© 1987 Niko Njotorahardjo, Fountain of Praise Ministries (contact assistant ilonatumiwa@yahoo.com)Reprinted / Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-740570
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Siyahamba
Assembly 17 – Indonesia 2022 – Songs Siyahamba / We are marching / Caminamos en la luz / Nous marchonsSouth African traditional, English Gracia Grindal© 1984 Peace of Music Publishing AB (admin. Walton Music Corp., a division of GIA Publications, Inc.) © One License Reprinted / Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-740570
