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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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Mission and Migration
Global Mennonite History Series: Latin America released in 2010 (also available in Spanish and French) By Jaime Prieto Valladares Translated and edited by C. Arnold Snyder General editors: John A. Lapp, C. Arnold Snyder
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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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Missional Frontier: Portugal
Mennonite Churches in Portugal Background In September 2020, our association went through some profound changes in its structure. First, we saw some board of administration members and church leaders leave the association for different reasons. A pastoral couple, Kardoso Mente and Maria Efekele, left Portugal to start a new journey in France. Kardoso used to
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Missional Frontier: Uruguay
Uruguay has an extension of 176.215 Km². It borders with Brazil in the north, and with Argentina in the west along the Uruguay River and the south along La Plata River, as well as the Atlantic Ocean. There were 3,500,000 inhabitants in the country in 2010, half of which live in and around the Capital,
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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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Consultation on Believers’ Baptism
Report on the Consultation on Believers’ Baptism Participants in the Consultation on Baptism in Kingston, Jamaica 08-10 January 2015
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AWFS Scripture reading
Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday Scripture passages read in English, Hindi, Javanese and Indonesian with subtitles in English, Spanish and French Readers:
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Baptism and Incorporation into the Body of Christ, the Church
Lutheran-Mennonite-Roman Catholic Trilateral Conversations 2012–2017 It was with the twin goals of increasing mutual understanding and helping one another grow in faithfulness to Jesus Christ that a trilateral dialogue took place between Lutherans, Mennonites and Roman Catholics, from 2012 to 2017. Over the course of the five year period, the dialogue followed the well-established interchurch
