• 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…

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    COP 29 blogs by a Dutch Mennonite
  • 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…

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  • Faithfulness in action

    The environmental crisis and our mandate to care for creation  A word of encouragement from the MWC Faith & Life Commission and the Creation Care Task Force.  Part 2 of 2  “Creation care” is taking on ever-increasing urgency.  The news reminds us daily of alarming changes in our climate. We are witnessing terrible violence against…

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    Faithfulness in action
  • God so loved the cosmos…

    The environmental crisis and our mandate to care for creation  A word of encouragement from the MWC Faith & Life Commission and the Creation Care Task Force.  Part 1 of 2  “Creation care” is taking on ever-increasing urgency.  The news reminds us daily of alarming changes in our climate. As the Creation Care Task Force’s…

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    God so loved the cosmos…
  • Executive Committee approves theological education and creation care grants

    Continues shaping networks, adding membership and supporting learning and action in member churches  Funding for theological education and carbon tax small grants was passed at the annual meeting of Mennonite World Conference’s Executive Committee meeting, 8-11 April 2024 in Curitiba, Brazil.   Two new funds  For many years, MWC member churches have called for more…

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    Executive Committee approves theological education and creation care grants
  • Season of Creation – 7

    Psalm 19 “The heavens are telling the glory of God,and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.Day to day pours forth speech,and night to night declares knowledge.There is no speech, nor are there words;their voice is not heard;yet their voice goes out through all the earthand their words to the end of the world.” God, when we…

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  • MWC contributing carbon tax to global projects

    In recognition of the environmental impact of their global work, Mennonite World Conference staff and executive committee members are now imposing a simple surcharge on themselves for each mile that they travel by air. The plan, approved in August by the MWC Executive Committee, went into effect October 14 when MWC administrator Karen Martin Schiedel…

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    MWC contributing carbon tax to global projects