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Let’s make a difference with what we have!
Indonesia 2022: Workshop The workshop aims- a) To create an interest in seeing the potential within an individual Mennonite youth. b) To acknowledge the significance and the impact their gift can bring to the community. c) Encourage the youth to use their skills to enhance the church. Presenter: Pratik Bagh from India: I am an…
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Living the Christian Life in Today’s World: Adventists and Mennonites in Conversation, 2011-2012
A Conversation between Mennonite World Conference and the Seventh-day Adventist Church 2011-2012 In 2011 and 2012, representatives of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and of the Mennonite World Conference met together for official conversations. In many respects the meetings proved to be a journey of mutual discovery. Background Mennonites and Adventists have had frequent…
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Making peace a way of life
During the past two years, MWC asked member conferences for accounts of experiences in peacemaking. MWC’s Peace Council considered these stories during two days of meeting in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, in August 2003. The following summary was developed out of that discussion. 1. Continuum of peacemaking activities: All Christians are called to be peacemakers, but this…
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Mennonite Quarterly Review 95
Baptism and Incorporation into the Body of Christ, the ChurchLutheran-Mennonite-Roman Catholic Trilateral Conversations 2012–2017Report of the Lutheran-Mennonite-Roman Catholic Trilateral Dialogue Commission On behalf of The Lutheran World FederationMennonite World ConferencePontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity The Mennonite Quarterly Review 95 (January 2021) In This IssueBaptism and Incorporation into the Body of Christ, the Church: Lutheran-Mennonite-Roman…
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God’s People in Mission: An Anabaptist Perspective
A Statement of the MWC Mission Commission God is a missionary God. Jesus is a missionary Lord. The Holy Spirit is a missionary empowerer. The entire Bible is a missional book. The whole church is a missional people. Therefore, by the grace of God, as an Anabaptist faith community 1. ORIGINS We lead people to…
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Identity and Ecumenicity: A Theology of Interchurch Hospitality and Denominational Identity
A teaching resource from the Faith & Life commission Mennonite World Conference embarked on the first formal dialogue process with the Baptist World Alliance in 1989. Since then, MWC has entered into conversations with Lutheran World Federation, Seventh Day Adventists, Catholics, and, most recently, a five-year trilateral dialogue with Lutherans and Catholics. Seeing the value…
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Growing in faithfulness: Living out our baptism
Guide for study and reflection on Baptism and Incorporation into the Body of Christ, the Church: The Report of the Trilateral Conversations between Lutherans, Mennonites and Catholics 2012-2017 by Thomas R Yoder Neufeld, on behalf of the Faith and Life Commission This study guide is an aid for member churches of the Mennonite World Conference to receive and process…
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God’s Shalom Project
God’s Shalom Project, by Bernhard Ott
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God’s People in Mission: An Anabaptist Perspective
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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Gathered into one
As presented to the Mennonite World Conference General Council, Limuru, Kenya, 24 April 2018 Part I “All things gathered in Christ” Part II “Unity of the Spirit – the creation of body and temple” Part III “Maintaining the Unity of the Spirit – when walking together is hard” At time of writing, Thomas R Yoder…
