Assembly 17 – Indonesia 2022 – Songs
Hear what the spirit is saying to the churches / Sun Aatma kya kahta hai sab Mandliyon se
Shant Kunjam, Shant Kunjam
© MWC
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This workshop offers an overview of New Testament perspectives on the people of God and their relationship to the “promised land” in which they live. We then consider together how these New Testament perspectives might shape our present-day responses to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Please bring your Bible!
Presenter: Dorothy Jean Weaver is professor emerita of New Testament at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA, where she taught full time from 1984-2018. Dorothy Jean Weaver is a member of Community Mennonite Church, within the Allegheny Mennonite Conference and Mennonite Church USA. Dorothy Jean is ordained by Virginia Mennonite Conference to the Special Ministry of Bible teaching.
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Presentation of the work of the MWC Corona Task Force in 2020. What did we do? What were results? What did we learn?
Presenter: Henk Stenvers (Decons Commission Secretary), is a Dutch Mennonite, from 2002 until his retirement in 2020 he was general secretary of the Dutch Mennonite Conference (Algemene Doopsgezinde Sociteit). From 2012 until this Assembly he is Deacons Commission secretary.
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Our worldview as leaders is being changed from managing organizations into leading transformation and reconciliation in a changing world. Called to follow Jesus and His word, loving people, using right principles and motivations, understanding giftings and culture, we obey Holy Spirit’s daily guidance, leading and preparing passionate people for action.
Presenter: Paul Gerhard Dck; Chair of COBIM – Mennonite Brethren Conference in Brazil, Pastor in the 1st MB Church in Curitiba-Brazil, Member of the Board of the Mennonite School and Fidelis Faculty in Curitiba. Cooperation in ICOMB projects.
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The Ludwigshafen Friedenshaus (Peace House) in Germany offers a model for congregational engagement with migrants. Offering language classes, sewing evenings, tutoring, and potlucks, the Friedenshaus people together. Four volunteers or long-term service workers with the Friedenshaus will share stories and also reflections on how other congregations might develop similar initiatives.
Presenter: David Lapp-Jost, of the Heidelberg-Bammental Mennonite Church (U.S. background) has volunteered at the Friedenshaus since early 2020, and has followed it since 2018.
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The World Council of Churches called for a “pilgrimage” of justice and peace. Applying a transformative spirituality, local communities have been visited in every region, to celebrate the gifts of life, to touch the wounds, and to transform the injustices. Key-themes have emerged on the way: Truth and Trauma, Land and Displacement, Gender Justice, and Racism.
Presenters: Fernando Enns, Mennonite (born in Brazil, living in Europe), representative of the Association of Mennonite Congregations in Germany at the World Council of Churches; Professor for Peace-Theology and Ethics at the Free University Amsterdam/The Netherlands and University of Hamburg/Germany. Andrs Pacheco Lozano, Mennonite (born in Colombia, living in the Netherlands), Secretary of the Global Mennonite Peace Network (MWC); Lecturer and Researcher at Free University Amsterdam/The Netherlands, secretary.
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Assembly 17 – Indonesia 2022 – Songs
Total Praise Richard Smallwood, Richard Smallwood; arr. Stphen Key
© 1996 Bridge Building Music (BMI)/T. Autumn Music (BMI) (admin. Capitol CMG Publishing)
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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 in different parts of the world. It is our hope however, to strengthen our sense of shared identity and community in the midst of all the diversity present throughout the Anabaptist body. Young people represent one of the important target audiences.
Find also a study guide for sharing questions about the film in small group or youth groups. Click here for the English version.
Transmission 2023 Migration
“How worldwide migration an displaced persons are being supported by loving and caring people.” This global phenomenon is the subject of 2023’s Transmission video.
In this video, young Mennonites in Greece, Lebanon, Colombia, USA and DR Congo share about their work of welcoming displaced persons.
Transmission 2023 – English
Transmission 2022 Latin America
The third production in the Transmission series focusing on creation care is ready for viewing. Ophelia, a Swiss woman, after living and working in Costa Rica, wondered what she could learn from her contemporaries in Latin America on the subject. The production includes stories from Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador and Honduras. This production ends with challenge triggered by an enterprise in the Netherlands as a way of inspiring all viewers, young and old to think and act boldly and with vision when it comes to creation care.
Transmission 2022 – English
Transmission 2021 Indonesia
In Transmission, Hani and Adi share amazing faith journeys while they relate as Mennonites (a small minority) and Muslims (a large majority) in Indonesia. Hani reflects on how she sees the face of God in the people (both Muslim and Christian) she encounters in the remote village of Tempur, high in the mountains of Jepara. Adi introduces us to the power of interfaith dialogue and the resulting transformation of Solo from a city of violence to a city of peace.
From Indonesia we jump to the Netherlands where the relationship between Anabaptists and Muslims is impacted by a Muslim minority.
Canadians, Europeans, and Indonesians worked together to bring this unique production to life.
Transmission 2021 – English
Transmission Ethiopia 2020
Transmission Ethiopia 2020 introduces its audiences to the Meserete Kristos Church through their experience with persecution (and freedom of religion), spiritual maturity, the place of youth in the church, the importance of music and prayer life. In this case, Salom, a French young adult reflects (after her return to France from her visit to Ethiopia), on what she learned from her peers and elders in the church.
We hope to gain a young generation of people who will be involved in making the next in the series and the final 90-minute documentary which we hope to expand to a secular audience in 2025. For the moment, we are targeting the Christian world.
Video in English, Spanish, French, German, Amharic subtitles
–release by Affox AG
Transmission 2020 – English Transmission 2020 – Amharic 
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Assembly 17 – Indonesia 2022 – Songs
True evangelical faith,
Menno Simons/Larry Nickel
© 2013 Cypress Choral Music
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Humanity is facing cataclysmic impacts of the climate crisis and enormous effects of the loss of natural ecosystems and biodiversity. What is our calling as partners in the care of God’s good creation? The missional role of the Church in actively restoring a harmonious and future-looking interaction with our environment is absolutely essential. This workshop will highlight the courageous voices of Anabaptist Mennonite communities impacted by environmental challenges and explore possibilities for bold leadership towards a vision rooted in justice and sustainability. The workshop will provide a space for listening and dialoguing together on this crucial peace and justice issue.
Presenters: Wendy Kroeker (from Fort Garry Mennonite Fellowship, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; GAPN chair), Andres Pacheco-Lozano (from Teusaquillo Mennonite Church, Bogota, Colombia; GAPN acting coordinator).
This workshop is sponsored by the Global Anabaptist Peace Network (GAPN) and the Mennonite World Conference Peace Commission (PC).Responding to Climate Crisis as a Missional Responsibility 
