MWC Executive plants four trees
For the past 10 years, Mennonite World Conference has planted a tree in the community in which its Executive Committee meets. This year they planted four. One was in the Chaco at the Instituto Bíblico Indígena in Yalve Sanga, where musicians sang and played prior to the planting.
Another was at Iglesia Hermanos Menonitas del Barrio Hospital de Clínicas (left), where Rainer Burkart (Germany) watered the tree while Oscar Peralta, president of the Convención Evangélica de Iglesias Paraguayas de los Hermanos Menonitas, and Flavio Florentín, academic director of the MB Bible Seminary, looked on.
The Executive Committee also planted trees at the Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Concordia and at Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Emaus, both in Asunción.
MWC’s tree-planting tradition developed out of a practice by Tanzania Mennonite women to restore nature. “Tree-planting reminds me of MWC,” said general secretary Larry Miller. “We don’t do much, but we do it everywhere!”
This article first appeared in Courier/Correo/Courrier 2007-3