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We need a new generation of stories
New global Anabaptist history series deepens understanding of God’s work in the world In 1922, when Rebecca Sengu was about 14 years old, she defied her parents and enrolled herself in the Mennonite girls’ school at the Nyanga mission station in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). She mustered the courage because she had heard
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AWFS 2026: Celebration ideas
Here are some of the ways the churches in Europe worship together, with symbolic actions to demonstrate solidarity.
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AWFS 2026: Liturgies and symbols for gathering and benediction
Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday 2026 On a table at the front, place five candles of different colours for each continent on top of a map of the world (or beside a globe) along with a white candle as the Christ candle in the middle. At the start of the worship service, name each continent as its candle is lit, acknowledging brothers and
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What have you been watching?
What did our global Anabaptist family watch in 2025? Mennonite World Conference’s (MWC) YouTube channel reveals four categories of videos that were most watched by Anabaptists around the world. Is one of these categories your favourite too? Anabaptist@500 commemoration service Naturally, at the top of the list is the Anabaptist@500 commemoration service and highlights. Available with interpretation in French, Spanish and German, the four videos
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The spirit of the yellow card
“One of the time-tested treasures of Mennonite World Conference (MWC) is its commitment to decision making by consensus,” says Janet Plenert. As vice president from 2009-2015 and regional representatives coordinator since 2024, she has experience with the practice. Consensus is a method of arriving at decisions unanimously or by carefully recording dissenting voices before moving ahead. “Consensus does not
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A blessing, not a burden
“Attending an Assembly is a wonderful experience. There’s an opportunity to see another part of the world, and to meet so many people. We learn new ways of working together; we adjust for things we hadn’t planned for; and most importantly, we build relationships,” says César García, MWC general secretary. When the leaders of Meserete Kristos
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AWFS 2026: Sermons
Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday 2026 Sermons Those who share have more Micah 6:8 I stand in the early summer sun on the Loosli family’s strawberry field on Moron in the Jura and comb through the small bushes for the ripest and finest strawberries. What’s on my mind on this beautiful June morning is the motto of
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A tapestry of faith, adventure and love
Kathryn Good’s life of service lives on beyond her death through the bequest she arranged. A bequest is an opportunity to provide an end-of-life gift as part of estate or will plans. It allows the giver to support an organization they believe in even after they are gone. Kathryn Good selected MWC to benefit in
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Committed to serving people
How do you stay in relationship in a diverse global communion comprised of 110 national member churches scattered across 61 countries, with vastly different economic circumstances and political and cultural contexts, speaking more than 30 different languages? “Mennonite World Conference is an organic community and not a bureaucratic institution. As a global church, we are
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The mission for which we are called
Perspectives (Anabaptism@500 activities) Walking tour & Story trails My tour to Zurich first points to my immediate feelings as we approached the bus stop and at a last corner, pointed the river in which Felix Manz was drowned. At once and out of nowhere did I have my emotions rise with little body sweats for
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Anabaptist voices in a world on fire
Perspectives (Anabaptism@500 activities) Panel discussion Under the title Standing Between the Lines in a World on Fire, voices from five continents gathered on May 29 at the Friedenskirche. On the occasion of the 500th anniversary, they debated a burning issue: how to remain faithful to the Anabaptist heritage of peace and nonviolence in a world
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Mentoring the next wave of global church leaders
From YABs to General Council: A path laid through mentorship “The strength of the young and the wisdom of the old, the Lord wants both,” said Timo Doetsch from Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mennonitischer Brüdergemeinden in Deutschland (AMBD) in Germany. He took to heart what church planter Lawrence Warkentin said to him many years ago – and so
