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What would help churches engage more with creation care?
Last month we looked at what activities churches actually do with creation care. This week we look at what they would like to learn more about. In other words, what do churches wish they could do more? 1. Respondents are interested in learning about several key areas of creation care. Respondents believe their churches are…
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Calling for Christians
In the midst of the increasing prevalence of hate speech and intolerance around us, we as a Christian community placed in Indonesia have a calling that is not easy. There are many efforts made by Islamic groups or schools who want to make the Republic of Indonesia a country with a religious ideology, an Islamic…
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A pastoral letter for Anabaptists in Ukraine
Dear Anabaptist Christians on all continents: This is a call to prayer for the peace of Ukraine, and for the well being of Anabaptist Christians living with the threat of a foreign military invasion. Hundreds of thousands of German-speaking Mennonites once lived in Ukraine. Nearly all migrated or were forcibly removed during political upheavals of…
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Des étudiants burkinabè écrivent l’histoire de l’Église africaine
Des étudiants burkinabè écrivent l’histoire de l’Église africaine Un étudiant burkinabè regrette que l’Église d’Afrique soit « comme une pirogue qui part sans laisser de trace ». Anicka Fast s’est engagée à changer cette réalité, en enseignant aux étudiants de l’Université chrétienne Logos de Ouagadougou à collecter l’histoire orale et à rédiger des biographies de…
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Created in the beauty of climate
On 23 September 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the Intergovernmental Panel report on climate change was “a code red for humanity.” And yet Guterres was hopeful, saying “it is not too late to act to ensure that climate action contributes to international peace and security.” For Guterres, nations must work together because peace…
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Scholars connect and grow
“If there’s something scholarly happening, we want to know about it!” says Kyle Gingrich Hiebert, co-coordinator of the Anabaptist Mennonite Scholars Network (AMSN). The Anabaptist Mennonite Scholars Network connects students and professors within a network of networks. It fosters global connections in research and to provide a contact point for shared information and resources. “For…
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Strengthening the arms of response
“In the midst of the pandemic, the sense of sharing and communion between faith communities, churches and Anabaptist institutions has grown,” says Willi Hugo Perez, Mennonite World Conference regional representative for Latin America – Central. At the dawn of a third pandemic year, there is weariness from the ongoing griefs, but churches are continuing with…
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To overcome obstacles in unanimity
Austria Mennonitischen Freikirche Österreich (MFÖ) / Mennonite Free Church of Austria The Mennonite Free Church in Vienna is the community in which I had the privilege of growing up. We are a small but incredibly family-oriented church, centred around Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I can identify myself very well with the Mennonites because…
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In memoriam: Joren Basumata (1948 – 2021)
Join us in prayer and gratitude for a national church leader who has also served the global family through MWC. Joren Basumata of BJCPM India died 15 October 2021 at 73. He served the local church as pastor of Emmanuel Chapel Bengali and Tollygunge Christian Fellowship; national church as chairperson; and the global Anabaptist-Mennonite church…
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Ministry partner update: ICOMB – January 2022
Introducing the Global Family: Maschayaktyn Jamatty (Disciples of Christ) – Kyrgyzstan ICOMB emerging conference Our Mennonite history in this country goes back to the 19th Century. After World War II, Kyrgyzstan became a place of refuge for many of the forcibly displaced German Mennonites as well as other Germans. However, missionary outreach among the…
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How do churches practice creation care?
Our previous stories from the global survey shows that 1) Mennonite-Anabaptist congregations around the world are being impacted by environmental issues such as climate change in diverse ways, 2) are feeling anxious and sad due to those impacts, and 3) are talking some about creation care in their churches. But how exactly are churches feeling…
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With Jesus through the storm
It has been two years that we, wherever we are in the world, have faced this pandemic season. These times have been difficult with lockdowns and much loss – from jobs to even people who we dearly love. This is a chaotic time that no one in 2019 could have imagined to hit the world…
