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The Courage to Love: Anabaptism@500 event video
On 29 May 2025, Mennonite World Conference (MWC) welcomed guests from around the world to The Courage to Love: Anabaptism@500. The day-long celebration commemorated the birth of the Anabaptist movement in Zurich, Switzerland. Following workshops, concerts, a panel discussion and self-guided historical walking tours, participants gathered for a worship service with ecumenical participation at the
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Courier 2025 / 40.1
A challenge for the ages It’s a double – even triple – anniversary for Mennonite World Conference this year. For one hundred years, Anabaptist-related national churches have been meeting together to acknowledge we are one body of Christ together, and to encourage and help each other in fellowship, worship, service and witness. For five hundred
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Biblical and Theological Reflections on the MWC Tagline
Presented by Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld to the MWC Executive Committee at their meeting in Curitiba, Brazil, in April 2024. I. Following Jesus – “Who do you say that I am?” Introduction A year ago, at Camp Squeah in British Columbia, Canada, the EC developed a new tagline for the MWC: “Following Jesus, living out
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Invitation to screen Mennonite documentary
Celebrating 500 years of Anabaptism, the new documentary, Where the Cottonwoods Grow, is booking screenings in communities around the world. You are invited to be part of it by arranging your own local screening. Where the Cottonwoods Grow follows the 1874 migration of Mennonites from Imperial Russia (Ukraine) to the West – a journey of
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Year in Review 2024
Our member churches are like the many pieces of a mosaic. Each piece is different, but together we form one beautiful mosaic. Thank you to everyone in our churches supporting MWC.#mwcmm #followingJesus #livingoutunity #buildingpeace
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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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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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Year in Review videos
2025 “We are an extremely small group in a global context. But we Anabaptist churches have a lot to share and a lot to contribute to other Christian groups and societies around the world.” Elke & Philipp Horsche 2024 Our member churches are like the many pieces of a mosaic. Each piece is different, but
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MWC Year in Review 2023
The focus of Mennonite World Conference in 2023 was on strengthening relationships in our Anabaptist-Mennonite family. We are family, woven together and strengthened as one body of Christ. Sharing joy and sorrow, together we are following Jesus, living out unity, and building peace. More information will be available on our website and MWC Info. Click here
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MWC Year in Review 2021
Our relationships with you — our sisters and brothers in Christ — were a source of strength as the pandemic continued in 2021. Online experiences during the pandemic have given you new virtual opportunities to connect online. You learned from and supported the global Anabaptist-Mennonite family as we follow Christ together while we are apart. Click here to download
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MWC Year in Review 2020
This year, the global pandemic forced us to rethink how we do our jobs, how we meet as congregations to worship and even how we connect in relationships. Yet, as we adjusted to new realities, we found news ways of following Jesus Christ, our hope. Click here to download video to show to your
