God’s People in Mission: An Anabaptist Perspective, 2018.
Based on the 10 missional statements that resulted from the work of the Mission Commission.
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Global Mission Fellowship of Anabaptist-related churches vision statement.
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Global Mission Fellowship of Anabaptist-related churches vision statement
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Learn to equip members of the Church to minister in their daily lives. In this seminar you will learn how the pastor and church building no longer function as the center of ministry but the place where others are taught how to do ministry where they live, work and play.
Presenter: Jessica Schrock-Ringenberg, is former pastor in Mennonite Church USA, current business owner and Director of the Center for Anabaptist Leadership and Learning (CALL) at Hesston College (USA). She currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri area where she would like to plant a church.
Called to be holy Integrating ministry into our daily lives 
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Introduction to the Updated, Online Edition (2011)
The following online electronic resource represents my efforts over the last few years, as a student at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), with the sponsorship and partnership of the AMBS Mission Studies Center, directed by Walter W. Sawatsky, to update the first print edition of this work: Anabaptism and Mission: A Bibliography, 1859-2000 (Elkhart, IN: Mennonite Mission Network, 2002), compiled and edited through the tremendous and tireless efforts of Chad M. Bauman and James R. Krabill.
Throughout the ongoing project thus far, the researching and compiling of sources was a humbling task, as the body of bibliographic materials on this subject never remains static. Not only has the project entailed updating entries of authors and sources listed in the first edition, as well new authors and scholars that have come on the scene in the first decade of the 21st century, but several more sources even from the 20th century were found and added, as the development of electronic communication and information technology has made a great deal more information and data available, even since the time of the first publication. Furthermore, the author has continued the trend of conceiving of Anabaptist as inherently broader than the mainline Mennonite denominations.
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Perspectives
- The power of God at a funeral wake
- Discipleship in the family
- Holding space
- A rich and satisfying life
- The gospel without walls
Resources
- Mennonite World Conference Annual report: 2023
- Peace Sunday 2024 Worship Resources
- The unity of the Spirit
- AMBS-MWC collaboration forms leaders for the global church
- Feast at a buffet of music
- Executive Committee approves theological education and creation care grants
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Inspiration and reflection
Sharing the food of life
“Anyone who tasted Jesus is good should tell others what he/she tasted.”
Evangelism is a scary word for many of us, but this simple advice offered by pastors in Ethiopia helps to simplify the task. Although we each bear responsibility to share the gospel, it is the Holy Spirit that changes hearts. Our job is merely to speak up about how we have experienced the goodness of God.
In this issue of Courier, we share stories of churches growing in different ways. Bursting at the seams with growing congregations, the leadership team of Meserete Kristos Church shares their 10 step strategy for church growth.
The local congregation of Anolaima in Colombia is growing trees and grass and birds as they plant seeds of the gospel in the hearts of visitors to their “IgleParque.”
And in secular Netherlands, a Mennonite retreat centre and associated camping network live out transforming lives in community, running toward the questions and letting God fill in the spaces.
You will also find testimonies of the church community fostering the growth of faith from the 2024 Renewal event in Curitiba, Brazil: Transformed, together we live Jesus. In our resource section, there is news to pique your interest in the upcoming 500th anniversary of Anabaptism.
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–Karla Braun is editor, writer and website coordinator for MWC. She lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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A teaching resource from the Faith and Life Commission
What does it mean for member churches of Mennonite World Conference to share an Anabaptist identity? What is the value of Anabaptist “tradition” – and what does that word mean in a global context? What are our Anabaptist understandings of mission and fellowship?
In 2009, the newly appointed Faith and Life Commission was asked to produce three papers that could be used in helping MWC communities reflect on such questions:
- “A Holistic Understanding of Fellowship, Worship, Service, and Witness from an Anabaptist Perspective” by Alfred Neufeld Friesen of Paraguay;
- “The ‘Anabaptist Tradition’ – Reclaiming its Gifts, Heeding its Weaknesses” by Hanspeter Jecker of Switzerland; and
- “Koinonia – The Gift We Hold Together” by Tom Yoder Neufeld of Canada.
All three papers were approved as a teaching resource by the MWC General Council in May 2012.
The “Anabaptist tradition” is a historical movement, rooted in the sixteenth century Radical Reformation, of contextualizing the Bible’s apostolic and prophetic legacy as lived out by the early church. Tradition is a historic witness of moments of renewal and contextualization, a dynamic in need of permanent perpetuation…
