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Renewal 2021 webinars
“Believe and Be Baptized” The Anabaptist-Mennonite Tradition History, theology and pastoral challenges 6 June 2021 John D. Roth Giving and Receiving within the Body of Christ Learning from the Mennonite-Catholic-Lutheran Conversations on Baptism 13 June 2021 Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld
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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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Creation Care and MWC Responding as a Global Church
Indonesia 2022: workshop Creation Care and MWC: Responding as a Global Church “El cuidado de la creación y el CMM: Respondiendo como iglesia mundial” « La protection de la création et la CMM : une réponse de l’église mondiale » How should Mennonite World Conference respond to climate and other environmental crises which are impacting…
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Grants honour Lord over all creation
God created the world as an intricate web of relationships. When creation suffers, people suffer too, as part of creation. Recognizing our responsibility in this global challenge, Creation Care Working Group* of Mennonite World Conference has established a Creation Care Fund to play a small role in equipping MWC member churches to respond to our contemporary ecological crises. In April 2026 the grant…
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Begin with prayer
“It was wonderful to begin this year praying together,” said Willi Hugo Perez after January’s online prayer hour. “May God encourage and strengthen the spirit of unity and peace in our beloved Anabaptist Mennonite family throughout the world.” Around 80 people gathered on Zoom at 14:00 UTC on 16 January 2026 to pray together at Mennonite World Conference’s bimonthly event. The…
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Courier 2025 / 40.2-3
This issue of Courier is a taste of the 500th anniversary Inspired by Zwingli’s famous invocation to “do something courageous!”, MWC gave the theme “The Courage to Love” to our 500th anniversary year. We marked it with a registration-free event in the streets of Zurich, Switzerland, on Ascension Day, 29 May 2025. It’s also the…
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Following Jesus into baptism
Clothed together in Christ Presented by Thomas R Yoder Neufeld On this 500th anniversary of the Anabaptist movement, and the 100th birthday of the MWC, we are taking the opportunity to reflect deeply on where we come from, where we find ourselves today, and where we are going.
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COP 29 blogs by a Dutch Mennonite
Updates from COP 29 – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) “We are witnessing terrible violence against God’s beloved creation. And we are increasingly aware of how much we share in the harm, both as sinners and as sinned-against,” says Thomas R Yoder Neufeld, chair of the Faith & Life Commission. “We must…




