• 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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    Courier 2025 / 40.1
  • 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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  • 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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    Transmission
  • 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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  • 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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  • Koinonia – The Gift We Hold Together

    A teaching resource from the Faith and Life Commission The word koinonia has rightly become a central term and concept for Mennonite World Conference. In addresses, publications and programmatic efforts, leaders have been nudging the global Anabaptist community to a deeper relationship with each other. Even when we don’t use the word koinonia itself, much…

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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…

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  • General Council presentation on Communion and Leadership

    Part 1: MWC & Communion Mennonite World Conference is called to be a communion (Koinonia) of Anabaptist-related churches linked to one another in a worldwide community of faith for fellowship, worship, service, and witness. Let’s keep in mind that, according to Paul, God’s unity plan is immeasurably bigger than the plan we might have in…

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    General Council presentation on Communion and Leadership