Our relationships with you — our sisters and brothers in Christ — were a source of strength as the pandemic continued in 2021.
Online experiences during the pandemic have given you new virtual opportunities to connect online.
You learned from and supported the global Anabaptist-Mennonite family as we follow Christ together while we are apart.
In 2022, we found new ways to follow Jesus together across barriers.
We find strength to follow Jesus best when we follow Jesus together.
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The focus of Mennonite World Conference in 2023 was on strengthening relationships in our Anabaptist-Mennonite family. We are family, woven together and strengthened as one body of Christ. Sharing joy and sorrow, together we are following Jesus, living out unity, and building peace.
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Nyanyikanlah Nyanyian baru / Sing to God a new song
Tilly Lubis-Naimggolam, H.A. Pandopo © 2009 Yamuger, Indonesian Institute for Sacred Music; English trans. David J. Diephouse (USA), alt.; trans.
© 2009 Faith Alive Christian Resources
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Wherever Jesus’ Church meets the Muslim community, we must nurture four dynamic interactions: dialogue, witness, peacemaking and hospitality. This seminar equips Christ-followers for healthy relationships with Muslims. Studying key biblical texts, supplemented video testimonies, participants will develop plans to share and implement their learnings in their home churches.
Presenters: Andres Prins and Jonathan Bornman are members of Eastern Mennonite Missions’ Christian-Muslim Relations Team. Patrick Obonde is director of K-Span, a Kenya Mennonite Church mission organization. Together they are the steering committee of Peacemakers Confessing Christ International, a global Anabaptist partnership focused on cultivating life-giving relationships with Muslim neighbours everywhere.
For more information see https://www.pcci.team/
Highlights from each day of PA 2015 Mennonite World Conference Assembly
Common associations of Islam with violence create barriers of fear that are hard to overcome. Anabaptists might believe they have an exclusive grasp on nonviolent theology and practice. The case study of the Muridiyya, a transnational Sufi Muslim religious order originally from Senegal presents an alternative perspective on nonviolence. Encountering another faith tradition committed to nonviolence, holds up a mirror for Anabaptists prompting new questions about following Jesus in peacemaking and calling for deeper engagement with the religious other.
Presenter: Jonathan Bornman leads Eastern Mennonite Missions’ Christian-Muslim Relations Team. Jonathan served with MCC in Brazil and Burkina Faso and with Mennonite Mission Network in Senegal as an evangelist and church planter. He is a PhD candidate at Middlesex University researching Sufi Muslim practices of nonviolence. He is a member of Mount Joy Mennonite Church in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, USA.
This workshop will explore the way MWC gets involved in political advocacy and how MWC member churches can request such help. It will also explore how MWC can further support its member churches and some of their ongoing struggles.
Presenters: Andrew Suderman is MWC Peace Commission secretary and a member of St. Jacob’s Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church Canada) and of Shalom Mennonite Congregation (Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA). Joji Pantoja is MWC Peace Commission chair (2015-2022), a Mennonite Church Canada Witness worker in the Philippines and founding member of Peacebuilders Community Inc.
MWC general secretary César García and MWC vice president Rebecca Osiro.
