• Courier 2024 / 39.4

    A foretaste of the kingdom  “Let’s think as citizens of a new nation in which there is not a gap between rich and poor, but where economic equality exists between all people.   “Let’s think as citizens of a new nation in which there is not racial discrimination, but where cultural diversity is affirmed and celebrated.  …

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    Courier 2024 / 39.4
  • 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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  • YABs Fellowship Week 2018

    “Called to be free”

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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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  • The ‘Anabaptist Tradition’ – Reclaiming its gifts, heeding its weaknesses

    A teaching resource from the Faith and Life Commission What does it mean for member churches of Mennonite World Conference to share anAnabaptist identity? What is the value of Anabaptist “tradition” – and what does that wordmean in a global context? What are our Anabaptist understandings of mission andfellowship? In 2009, the newly appointed Faith…

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  • Song videos from Asia for AWFS

    Member churches in Asia do not use any of the three official languages in MWC. Their worship music includes many songs that are not translated into any of MWC’s three languages. These are videos of songs frequently used in local congregations which MWC congregations are encouraged to use during their own worship, as prelude or…

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  • Peace Sunday 2023 – Teaching resources

    Being a family: redrawing the images and borders   While he was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers were standing outside,  wanting to speak to him.  Someone told him, ÒLook, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.Ó  But to the one who had told him…

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  • Peace Sunday 2024 – worship resource

    Theme  Kintsukuroi: The broken vessel is often more beautiful than the original Why this theme was chosen 2 Corinthians 4:7 describes the gospel as a “treasure” in “clay jars.” These humble vessels bring to mind the Japanese tradition of kintsukuroi that creates (or recreates) pottery from broken pieces. Damaged vessels are put back together, often…

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  • Missional Frontier: DRC

    Mennonite churches in Democratic Republic of Congo Background The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country located in Central Africa, inhabited by nearly 80 million people, belonging to500 tribes and living on a surface of 2 345 410 square kilometers. The country experienced two waves of evangelism. The first evangelism occurred during the15thcentury through the…

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  • Missional Frontier: Kenya

    A Mission Story of KMC – witnessing in faith Country context in Brief Kenya Mennonite Church (KMC) is a conference registered in The Republic of Kenya. Kenya has a total land area of 581,309km2. Around 9.5% of this total land area is arable. The population is 48 million with a growth rate of 2.3%. Women…

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