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Church and community hall a place for district gatherings
Nuagaon, Odisha, India – In early May 2013, the Brethren in Christ Church in the state of Odisha, India, reported the completion of construction of a church and community hall and pastor’s quarter in the village of Nuagaon. The new facility, which can accommodate at least 500 people on the floor, will be used to…
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Heaven Came Down in Awassa
Awassa, Ethiopia – The Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) hosted the 16th annual meeting of the International Missions Association (IMA) in Awassa, Ethiopia, September 18-26, 2012, on the beautiful shores of Lake Awassa. The IMA consists of 22 Anabaptist groups dedicated to fellowship, prayer and fasting, information sharing, resourcing, and partnership for global mission, especially in…
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Colombian Anabaptist churches request prayer for victims, perpetrators and peacemakers
Bogotá, Colombia—On Sunday, April 15, some Colombian Anabaptist churches ask congregations in their own country and beyond to worship, pray and reflect for the victims, perpetrators and peacemakers related to conflict in their country. The Internally Displaced Monitoring Center, according to an article released recently by Mennonite Central Committee, reports that just over 5 million…
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Events
Learn more about MWC events: Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday, Assembly, Peace Sunday, Renewal 2028, YABs Fellowship Week.
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YABs Fellowship Week
As Young Anabaptists (YABs), we want to use the third week in June on an annual basis to celebrate our common faith and roots in our different cultural contexts by studying and discussing a passage from Scripture, sharing songs and prayer requests, hearing each other’s stories and praying for each other. We’ve compiled some materials…
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PN-September-24-Europe
Our coming annual European Mennonite Leadership Conference will take place between17 and 20 October 2024 in Woking/Surrey, UK. We have 27 attendees from 14 European Conferences. Please remember the preparation of the program, also the travelling and the items we want to talk, specially the 2025/ 500 years preparation and also MERK 2026. —submitted by…
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2023-July-elections- BIC
Praise God that we can meet together as national churches to worship, fellowship and discern. We pray for the following national churches who are holding their annual general conference: BIC Zimbabwe: 28-30 August 2023 at Mtshabezi Mission BIC Mozambique: 27-30 July 2023 in Beira. BIC Malawi: 10-13 August 2023 Communauté Mennonite de Kinshasa, DRC: 16-19…
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PN-Mar-23-Renewal
Churches in the Vancouver/Abbotsford region of British Columbia, Canada will be hosting the MWC Renewal event (25 March), and many local congregations will be welcoming international MWC guests to their worship services (26 March). MWC Executive Committee (27-29 March), Commission leaders, Regional Representatives and staff will be gathering the following week for their annual meetings.…
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Living the Christian Life in Today’s World: Adventists and Mennonites in Conversation, 2011-2012
A Conversation between Mennonite World Conference and the Seventh-day Adventist Church 2011-2012 In 2011 and 2012, representatives of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and of the Mennonite World Conference met together for official conversations. In many respects the meetings proved to be a journey of mutual discovery. Background Mennonites and Adventists have had frequent…
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Ministry partner update: ICOMB – February 2022
The Mexican conference has nine congregations and 479 baptized members, led by pastor Carlos Ortega. Two churches are from the city of Tijuana, one from the State of Mexico, one from Colima, and five from the metropolitan area of Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco. On 5 February 2022, the Mennonite Brethren in Mexico, known…
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Prayer: To hope and act with creation
The Season of Creation, an annual ecumenical initiative, concludes with the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi on 4 October. Inspired by his Canticle of Creatures and Romans 8:19-25, this prayer invites us to praise, repent and lament, and then “to hope and act with Creation”. God, Creator of heaven and earth, We praise you…
